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Not exactly sure why you just reverted the edit I just made. Care to explain on the article's talk page? Given your [[Special:Contributions/TennisAnalyst004|recent editing history]], it would appear that you're engaging in [[WP:EDITWAR|long-term edit warring]] over that specific section of the page; duplicating previous edit summaries on the same revert doesn't help the matter. --[[User:Slakr|<span style="color:teal;font-weight:bold;">slakr</span>]]<small><sup>\ [[User talk:Slakr|talk]] /</sup></small> 20:24, 24 July 2012 (UTC) |
Not exactly sure why you just reverted the edit I just made. Care to explain on the article's talk page? Given your [[Special:Contributions/TennisAnalyst004|recent editing history]], it would appear that you're engaging in [[WP:EDITWAR|long-term edit warring]] over that specific section of the page; duplicating previous edit summaries on the same revert doesn't help the matter. --[[User:Slakr|<span style="color:teal;font-weight:bold;">slakr</span>]]<small><sup>\ [[User talk:Slakr|talk]] /</sup></small> 20:24, 24 July 2012 (UTC) |
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:Excuse me, but you deleted a very important sentence and footnotes that have formed the basis of much discussion over many months. I believe good faith requires that you make your case on the talk page, among other contributors and editors, rather than take it upon yourself to do something so controversial. Thank you. [[User:TennisAnalyst004|TennisAnalyst004]] ([[User talk:TennisAnalyst004#top|talk]]) 20:28, 24 July 2012 (UTC) |
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Federer wording and why it matters
it seems that, along with a few other Federer enthusiasts, you construe my demand for precision with some sort of petulance. I agree TOTALLY that Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. I do not have a problem with this assertion - for, like you, I do not consider it an assertion, but a simple fact of life. Rather like the sun coming up tomorrow is a fact of life. However, I ask you to please, please, please consider the following grammatical construction, the one that you took it upon yourself to reimpose by reversing my own construction:
"Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who is widely regarded as the greatest of all time."
The greatest WHAT of all time, I ask you? Do you know what that says, in your version that you insist on reimposing? It says that "Roger Federer is widely regarded as the greatest Swiss professional tennis player of all time." In your insistence on deleting my wording, you are actually vastly diminishing your and my hero's stature. It is a grammatical fact of life, a simple rule of the English language, that you MUST have "Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who is widely regarded as the greatest tennis player of all time" (at this point I cede your point about not needing "male" in there), if YOUR meaning is to stick. It is not - I repeat, not - repitition to have that wording in there.
Schpinbo (talk) 01:28, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
- If you agree that the word "male" is unnecessary in the first sentence of the article, why have you put the word in yourself on at least two occasions? It's pretty clear that you are trolling here. (By the way, you misspelled "repetition.") Regards. TennisAnalyst004 (talk) 07:53, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding That Mumpsimus, Schpinbo
For the record, the user Schpinbo has violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the "three reverts" rule on the Roger Federer page. Consider his actions on July 15:
1. 00:58, 15 July 2012 Schpinbo(talk | contribs) m [NOTE: He undid the user "Just another guy in a suit's" edit by adding the word "male" to the first sentence.]
2. 01:25, 15 July 2012 Schpinbo(talk | contribs) . . (109,508 bytes) (+12) (Undid revision 502331605 by TennisAnalyst004)
3. 02:17, 15 July 2012 Schpinbo(talk | contribs) . . (109,508 bytes) (+12) . . (Undid revision 502334257by TennisAnalyst004)
4. 02:48, 15 July 2012 Schpinbo(talk | contribs) m . . (109,407 bytes) (+14) [NOTE: He changed the wording again of the opening sentence, thus "undoing" what came before.]
This user has a habit of undoing others' contributions and edits. He goes about his business with a snide and adversarial air, and he cries foul when others call him out for unsporting behavior. It's a shame that somebody from the Wikipedia team hasn't already admonished him. TennisAnalyst004 (talk) 08:07, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
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Your revert on Roger Federer
Not exactly sure why you just reverted the edit I just made. Care to explain on the article's talk page? Given your recent editing history, it would appear that you're engaging in long-term edit warring over that specific section of the page; duplicating previous edit summaries on the same revert doesn't help the matter. --slakr\ talk / 20:24, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- Excuse me, but you deleted a very important sentence and footnotes that have formed the basis of much discussion over many months. I believe good faith requires that you make your case on the talk page, among other contributors and editors, rather than take it upon yourself to do something so controversial. Thank you. TennisAnalyst004 (talk) 20:28, 24 July 2012 (UTC)