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Jefferson and Slavery
You made an edit to the Jefferson article in the section on slavery saying, "those statements are sourced" [[1]]. Actually, if you read the source, it says there is no such evidence to support any such claim. The LOC made a point of highlighting that fact. Please read V "This policy requires that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged be attributed to a reliable, published source in the form of an inline citation, and that the source directly support the material in question." The source does not support the claim of presenting any bill; it says the opposite. Why? Because it never happened.Ebanony (talk) 15:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
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Just stopping by to say hi! :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScienceWick2011 (talk • contribs) 00:08, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The article Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia: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 ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Eeekster (talk) 02:19, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Paul Revere
Hello and thank you for your interest in the article Paul Revere. Unfortunately you made a number of edits that have no references or inline citations that removed the work of others that were indeed referenced with reliable sources. Please refrain from removing work that stays within Wiki guidelines as you are in danger of coming very close to bad faith editing.--Amadscientist (talk) 22:04, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
- That's the pot calling the kettle black innit? I merely partially undid your removal of relevant material that left the article in a disorganized shambles. Now stop trying to intimidate people you disagree with. FurrySings (talk) 00:15, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- I just looked at the article, and all the stuff you had removed has been put back by other editors, so there. (Blech!)
- FurrySings (talk) 00:27, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Molly Maguires
I don't have all of the sources available right now, so i'm commenting from memory, but when i looked at this subject once before, I believe there were some authors who argued that the Molly Maguires were not a "labor" organization. Add to that the fact that there was a union functioning in the same locale at the time which had little to do with the Molly Maguires. I think that it may still be open to question. Richard Myers (talk) 02:00, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
- Is secret society a better description?[2] FurrySings (talk) 12:13, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, i think that is a more accurate description. Some historians say the Mollies in Pennsylvania were a secret subset of one chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which is a society, and not a labor organization. So "secret society" would seem to fit well. Richard Myers (talk) 21:46, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Madison Hemings
Hi, I've checked the Hemings' articles and made the Leads more emphatic to reflect the academic consensus; have also added material to the TJ Talk page of recent books which have been published reflecting this consensus. Editors such as DarkOne just have to get over it; they are making Wikipedia look silly and wasting the time of others. We are to follow reliable sources, and they have accepted Jefferson's paternity for a decade or more. The holdouts don't count. Thanks for your interest and attempt to have the Madison H article reflect material in the one on TJ. Parkwells (talk) 19:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking into it. :-) FurrySings (talk) 08:08, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Quotations
Thanks for the improvements to the Glee article. I did have to remove the italics you added to the three quotes in the paragraph you edited, because quotes within articles are not supposed to be set in italics: "For quotations, use only quotation marks (for short quotations) or block quoting (for long ones), not italics." See the Wikipedia Manual of Style for further information. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. I'll remember that. FurrySings (talk) 17:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Revert
Please explain how is this BLP violation. -- Vision Thing -- 15:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Joel Johnson
Hello FurrySings, thanks again for your input regarding the Dee Dee Myers article recently. I've since completed a draft about a colleague of Ms. Myers, also the subject of an existing page: Joel Johnson. Again like the Myers page, I have a potential COI with Mr. Johnson as a subject, so I have posted a request for feedback on the article Talk page as well as at WikiProject Biography—alas, so far without response. If you have a chance to look it over and offer any comment on the Joel Johnson Talk page, I'd appreciate it. If not, I do think my changes are pretty straightforward, and I may just go ahead in the next 48 hours or so. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 18:44, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- You version looks good, I would just go ahead and copy it over. FurrySings (talk) 02:54, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- Again, thank you very much for your feedback and thumbs-up. I've now copied my draft over to Joel Johnson in the mainspace. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 10:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
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Please stop the edit warring
Please stop the edit warring. I've listed every edit on the talk page. Please join in and see if we can reach a consensus, but your reversions, after being warned, are inappropriate.
There's a way to achieve consensus - it includes discussion of the issues and making cogent arguments, not simply hitting the revert button.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
I suppose you might wonder which version is "preserved" while discussions are ongoing. In some cases, this is problematic, and there are guidelines on how to handle it, but I don't think that applies in this case.
Have you read WP:BRD?
- The addition of the phrase though the number of economists who support such stimulus is "probably a majority" by the IP was BOLD
- Vision Thing REVERTed it.
- Now we DISCUSS whether it should be included.
We don't leave in an unsourced IP addition while we debate whether to remove it. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:20, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- If I am edit warring then so are you. Vision Thing's edit removed 2 things and added 3, but you still added it back three times, against BRD. I asked at Wikipedia_talk:BIOGRAPHY, and it's not OK for someone to come to a BLP to only always makes the person look bad, so stop helping Vision Thing. I was right to revert him. FurrySings (talk) 14:36, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Also, my edit is obviously not vandalism, so don't call it that when you revert in the edit summary.[3] FurrySings (talk) 14:49, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Continued disruption at Krugman
You've now added back the unsupported phrase "though the number of economists who support such stimulus is "probably a majority" " many times. Please revert it, or I will be reporting you to ANI.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Every. Single. One.
You said:
Look at the history of the Krugman page. Look at every edit Vision Thing made to the article. Every single one is to make the article more negative or less positive. Every. Single. One.
I don't know you, so I have no idea whether you know what you are talking about or not.
Let's find out.
Vision Thing noticed that a template {{Criticism section}} was a bit dated, and not under active discussion, so he removed it. Please explain how a removal of a stale maintenance template makes the article "more negative or less positive"? Remember, you not only said Every Single One, you emphasized it.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:30, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- You're being dense. Is that the best you can come up with looking at his edits to the Krugman page? He wants more criticism of Krugman, so of course he's going to remove the template that there says there shouldn't be a criticism section. I'm not talking about whether the template should be there or not, I'm talking about his motivation. All his edits are driven by motivation to make Krugman look bad. That is not OK. Why don't you go through his last 50 edits and see if you can find any edit not motivated by desire to make Krugman look bad? FurrySings (talk) 21:51, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Visionthing has been edit warring to do this[4]. Can anyone look at this and say that he is not motivated by the intention to make Krugman look bad? FurrySings (talk) 02:12, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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Rename at Campaign for "santorum" neologism
Hello, since you recently participated in an RfC at Campaign for "santorum" neologism, I thought you might be interested in this proposal for renaming the article, or perhaps another of the rename proposals on the page. Best, Be——Critical 22:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
James B. Bullard biography section
Hi - just a question on your recent edits to James B. Bullard: Is an inefficient citation? I'm rather new (or rather, I haven't done many Wiki articles yet); so, I appreciate the help. Thanks! -- william.martin871 — Preceding unsigned comment added by William.Martin871 (talk • contribs) 14:15, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- Referencing his official biography on his web site is fine, as long as the claims or conservative and not overly self-serving. (See WP:ABOUTSELF) However, factual claims in BLPs do need to be cited in-line. FurrySings (talk) 13:48, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll revise that personal life stuff and replace it. Much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by William.Martin871 (talk • contribs) 14:42, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
FurrySings, I added numerous citations/links. I also removed the citation notice, if that was OK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by William.Martin871 (talk • contribs) 15:54, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Infobox
Your RfC is interesting, but flawed. An infobox would go at the beginning, if at all. By including an option for having it lower down in the article, you will split the !votes of those who want it included. I recommend removing that option from your RfC, before anyone starts contributing. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 10:50, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
- I have changed it as you suggested. FurrySings (talk) 10:57, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
- I think that works better. Here's another thought: you should anticipate that someone is going to remove the infobox from the article while the RfC is taking place -- the point of the RfC is to determine whether there is consensus for including it, and so including it now is premature. You should accept this and refrain from reverting it back into the article if someone removes it -- and perhaps even remove it yourself, since it is really inevitable that someone else will do it. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 11:02, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
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Revert with no edit summary or reference to Talk page discussion
Hi, Furry; No way to know what you actually wanted to do when you hit revert and offer no edit summary or Talk page comment. Inclined to undo in stages, so you can elaborate (assuming you are trying to be productive), since there are multiple edits you undid all at once. [[5]]
For instance, the longtime consensus on the page has been that general discussions of the First Amendment issues is a WP:COATRACK on the RL-SF Article, but this is being revisited by another editor.
There is also a grammatical problem with the wording in that it gives an inaccurate chronology; the Hearing was first, then there was a request to add Fluke.
Similarly, it is fine to mention the Democrat protest that the hearing was all-male, only as long as the fact that it wasn't is included. I know the wording is not the best on that section, but was an imperfect but messy compromise.
All these issues have pages of text devoted to them on the Article Talk and Talk:Archives page.
If, instead, you want to leave a reply here, I will check your Talk page. Thanks--209.6.69.227 (talk) 15:30, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
- The above editor has been making an effort to add POV to several articles. Please continue to edit and make comments on this article. Casprings (talk) 12:36, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Shirt
Not a hoax. There are countless real world examples of this shirt. Creating facsimiles is standard practice on commons to mitigate copyright issues.– Sir Lionel, EG(talk) 22:12, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- Except you didn't attribute it as a derivative work of the original, as required by copyright. IRWolfie- (talk) 14:56, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi FurrySings. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User page breaching wikipedia policies, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Timeshift9 (2nd nomination). Cunard (talk) 06:11, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2012
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2012. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
- Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
- Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 06:57, 9 September 2012 (UTC)