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Please use the talk page prior to editing the CFS article. While I think I understand your desire to add certain information, your approach is not at all constructive or helpful. 71.7.133.156 (talk) 23:19, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

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Please discuss the image on the talk page rather than restoring it again. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:43, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for your message on my talk page. I have restored the article, so that you can improve it. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

I see you haven't edited the article yet. It was restored because you said you knew of sources that indicate notability, but if you don't edit the article to incorporate that evidence of notability then it will be deleted again. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:58, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi James, I added quite a number of sources indicating notability, but it appears that the page has been deleted again. College papers have been used for sources on other pages that I've used. There are also other non-college news sources like the Toronto Star that were sourced. Why was it deleted?Spudst3r (talk) 02:00, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

The coverage seemed rather parochial, and not all that substantial. What exists in other articles is not always a good guide, as there are many articles which don't satisfy Wikipedia's guidelines, and which may well be deleted if and when someone notices them and nominates them for deletion. College papers are fine as sources for verification of content, but how useful they are as sources to establish notability is debatable. I think it depends on various circumstances, such as how substantial the coverage is. However, since you have contested the deletion in the above message, I will restore the article. It will still be possible for someone to take it to Articles For Deletion, but if so it is by no means certain that it will be deleted. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:07, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Absolutely unbelievable. "Unhealthy focus"? I wonder if this idea will be fairly applied to all editors exhibiting and "unhealthy focus", or more likely, it will only be applied to those whose opinions do not mesh with the cabal of highly-POV admins/watchdogs? Shame... 70.109.187.181 (talk) 14:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

It's embarassing, but I have to share a country with HJ Mitchell. It's incredible such bigots are given a platform by Wikipedia. 62.254.196.200 ([[User talk:62].254.196.200|talk]]) 17:04, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi User:HJ Mitchell. Its been over a year since this topic ban and I've made many edits since in quite a variety of subjects. Can I have this reviewed now? Cheers. (Also sorry for those nasty ppl above, I don't know them.) Spudst3r (talk) 22:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Spudst3r. The license of the paper is linked to in the "(license)" link under 'Download' - it's arxiv-only. I'll delete the files as they clearly don't have a suitable license for Wikipedia. It would be worth contacting the authors of that paper to ask if they would be willing to release the images under a CC-BY-SA license, though! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for KIC 8462852

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@Alexbrn: Please do not attribute things I was not doing: I genuinely did not see your surprise revert and was merely updating my original edit, no sneaky edit intended whatsoever. I'm unclear why merely stating the scientific and cited fact that no source has been found yet is objectionable or non-notable.Spudst3r (talk) 11:17, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

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Nordstream

At least there's something on the page regarding Hersh. I'm honestly surprised, since most of the time all mention of it would have been completely removed. I think the reason is that there's enough secondary coverage of Hersh that that's why the other mods haven't been able to claim wholesale WP:NOTRS and not have it mentioned on the page at all. Nobody is mentioning the secondary coverage on Hersh, let alone citing the secondary articles saying that "Hersh is bogus," which actually might be a good citation to add; but I think that's what's really going on and that's the reason that no one has outright deleted it from the article entirely. Why do you think it hasn't been removed completely?

I went through a similar experience on the 2021-2023 inflation surge page, where I was being denied to even mention that the massive amount of money printing was a cause, despite sourcing Stanford/Johns Hopkins economists and being well-within [what WP considers] reputable sources with WSJ/CNBC/Forbes, and I was still getting reverted. It wasn't until the M2 v. inflation graph was posted that there was suddenly a 180 degree turn, and then all of a sudden my arguments that "Hey, WSJ/CNBC/Forbes are in the WP:RS listing, and Johns Hopkins/Stanford economists are experts" suddenly took hold and I was able to get that single section in there. It's weird from a Wikipedia Policy POV, because that graph shouldn't have been the reason to stop reverting the edits, and I was anticipating someone screaming WP:OR about that graph, but in practice that's how it works sometimes. I think a similar unmentioned psychological phenomena is happening here.

I think this is going to be one of those things that we'll have to wait until the war's end before Hersh's reporting can be cross-verified by a third party, and then we'll finally see some cracks in the dam start to loosen up on this information. Well, my real guess is that the war will end, then there'll be a report released by a Danish investigation team, nobody will report on it and nobody will know about it, and then that can get added to the article; but by then nobody will care about this article.

Anyways, my 2 cents.Fephisto (talk) 16:39, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, I think you are right. There is a lot of emotional editing and tendentious watering down of the stated facts that appears to be going on, to favour a narrative of minimization. I don't really understand this drive, an encyclopedia should preserve all the relevant prominent discourse and let the reader decide. I myself have no idea whether Hersh is lying or being misled either. Spudst3r (talk) 05:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing & stop edit warring

@Spudst3r: You are engaging in disruptive editing & edit warring in both the Nord Stream explosion article page [1] and talk page [2] under the sub-section topic you started titled “Berliner Zeitung as RS” (here [3])
It’s been explained to you & proven to you that Berliner Zeitung is not a wiki RS (here [4]) And I know you read that comment about BZ not being listed as a wiki RS because you replied to me and ‘thanked me’ for giving you the list, here [5]. Yet, even after knowing BZ is not a wiki RS you are flagrantly & intentionally ignoring wiki policies WP:NOTRS by repeatedly try to add BZ into the article as a source. That is disruptive editing, verges on edit warring, and does not help improve the article. It’s intentional actions like that which get people topic banned or even permanently banned from wiki. Multiple times it's been explained to you and others [6], that if you all want to try to get BZ listed as a wiki RS then you must follow wiki rules at WP:RSPMISSING and start an RS/N. [7],[8] Remember, Wiki is not your blog, WP:NOTCV & WP:NOTWEBHOST so follow wiki guidelines. Best regards~ BetsyRMadison (talk) 03:14, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

I believe you are projecting here @BetsyRMadison, just a friendly warning that today you were in violation of the 3 revert rule by reverting my changes and those of other editors. I opened that talk section, a discussion was had, and with good reasons given by other editors nobody agreed with your position. Respectfully, you are the one doing edit warring and disruptive editing on that page, while accusing others of it. Spudst3r (talk) 03:32, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

• @Spudst3r: sounds like you're also engaging in GAMING & looking for 'loopholes' to intentionally edit in bad-faith. You knew BZ is not an RS when you re-added it. And now you 'warned' me not to undo your edit where you added the BZ citation and say "just a friendly warning that today you were in violation of the 3 revert rule by reverting my changes and those of other editors. You know WP:GAMING & disruptive editing, edit warring, & intentionally ignoring wiki policies can get a person permanently banned.
  

A "talk page" is not an RS noticeboard. Wiki policy says WP:RSPMISSING says [[tq| "start a discussion about it at the reliable sources noticeboard (RSN)}} (noticeboard, not talk page ) if you want to try to get Berliner Zeitung listed as an RS.

We follow wiki policies. Not yours, not mine, & not others. If you reject this warning and continue to engage in GAMING, disruptive editing, edit wars, and flagrantly disregarding policies you will leave me no choice but to bring up your behavoir disruptive on a noticeboard with Adm. Best regards~ BetsyRMadison (talk) 03:35, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

@BetsyRMadison please assume good faith, tone down your rhetoric and not personalize the argument. I know we have an editorial disagreement about this but I have actually come to your defence on a previous edit. E.g.: changing "stated" to "accused" was a good one per MOS:ACCUSED. Please try not to view the process as adversarial and let us come to a constructive consensus. Spudst3r (talk) 23:08, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

For the record: A — Preceding unsigned comment added by BetsyRMadison (talk • contribs) 05:20, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

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