User talk:MXfurry

May 2015[edit]

Hello, I'm Winner 42. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Aruna Shanbaug case— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Winner 42 Talk to me! 20:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Anbang Insurance Group[edit]

Hello MXfurry,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Anbang Insurance Group for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. — Zepeline ^talk 20:49, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

James Horner[edit]

Hello, I'm ATinySliver. I wanted to let you know that I reverted this edit. If you feel the categories you deleted are inappropriate or incorrect for use within the article, please include a summary that explains the edit; "I like danny elf man and his music" did not. Cheers! —ATinySliver/^ATalkPage 19:04, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Neal Falls[edit]

The article Neal Falls has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. reddogsix (talk) 15:17, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

October 2015[edit]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Umpqua Community College shooting. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.

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Please read WP:SYNTH, part of Wiki policy on original research. —ATinySliver/^ATalkPage 🖖 04:50, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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October 2015[edit]

Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Edit summaries!![edit]

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Gizmocorot (talk) 13:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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November 2015[edit]

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics. Thank you. NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction[edit]

The following sanction now applies to you:

You are hereby banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 month.

You have been sanctioned for a direct violation (addition of contentious content without firm consensus, edit warring) of the discretionary sanctions already in effect at Bernie Sanders: "You must obtain firm consensus on the talk page of this article before making any potentially contentious edits, must not engage in edit warring and are subject to discretionary sanctions while editing this page."

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

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Your contributed article, Stone Age Sea Going Humans[edit]

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Don't always believe what you read[edit]

There's another explanation - from a mailing list I read - the first part is quotes from a book, the rest commentary by someone:

Valerius Geist, solves this “mystery” in Chapter 8 of Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behaviour, and Ecology, (Geist, 1999) “The red deer is the most widespread and diverse Old World deer species...” (pg. 170) “...Eurasian populations have been genetically polluted by (high fence) deer farming...” (pg. 170) “The red deer has also been widely introduced...” (pg. 170) “A great many transplants of red deer have taken place, so difficulties exist in identifying native stocks...” (pg. 185) “Already in Great Britain and in the former Czechoslovakia [red deer] are losing their distinction because of hybridization.” (pg. 185) Besides hybridization, “bottleneck effects” haunt red deer where populations have grown from a few remnant individuals.” (pg. 185) “...much “taxonomic noise” is being introduced due to hybridization, bottlenecks, male dominance, and transplant effects.” Relict red deer populations abound all over Europe and Eurasia. (It’s painfully obvious that the Orkney red deer herd is one of these relict populations.) Some red deer in the south of Spain differ dramatically from the red deer of the north of Spain. The unique southern deer are relict C. angulatus that first appeared during the Holstein interglacial, 230,000 years before present. ---> “Western red deer are found across sea channels that have not been dry for some time, such as the straits of Messina and Sicily; they are found in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa (across the Strait of Gibraltar) ...” (pg. 204.) [Relict, genetically unique red deer survive/occurred on Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, Pinosa, Sicily, and Capri. Relict, genetically unique red deer also survive/occurred on the Channel Islands, and, “on islands off Norway.”] (pg. 206) Relict, genetically unique red deer also occur in Italy and on the Greek islands. “The driving force of speciation [and sub-speciation] in Ice Age mammals appears to be the ecological crises caused by pulses of glacial ice and warm interglacials. These led to repeated radiations and concomitant changes in social selection, as well as sharp population contractions ... and the meeting and hybridization of gene pools.” (pg. 185)

Sooo.... During a Pleistocene glacial, red deer and other mammals walk out to and occupy various high points and ridges in the Orkney islands. Then a warm interglacial traps them with rising sea water. Surprise! Those high points are now islands. A relict population forms that is genetically distinct and incapable of change. On the mainland, hybridization and transplanting continues unabated making those red deer genetically different than their island bound compatriots. That seems at least as likely an explanation. Doug Weller talk 17:52, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 2016[edit]

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Glenn Quagmire, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. Categories must also be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 16:25, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	thanks for tidying up the references in Panama Papers. Elinruby (talk) 18:02, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

couple of notes fyi[edit]

someone (oxford dictionary? AP?) has now decreed that lower-case internet is ok, maybe preferred. I left the change because, meh, I don't care that much and meh again, it's still a common form, if not the most common.* On another point though, I reverted your change inserting Presidents before Obama and Clinton because Clinton in this case means Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. That text has been moved and I will check to see if that context was lost. Thanks for your good-faith edit, though, come on over to the talk page; there is plenty to do. Elinruby (talk) 18:07, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

never mind; I just realized that this was the editor before you, sorry about that.Elinruby (talk) 18:11, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Bernie Sanders Time Line[edit]

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Your contributed article, Bernie Sanders Time Line[edit]

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

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