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editHello Proxima Centauri, I have removed the entries in this category, as this seems a strange way of creating links. wikilinks are generally sufficient. Inwind (talk) 18:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Footnote punctuation
editPer Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation and footnotes, Wikipedia's house style is to have the footnote follow immediately after the punctuation of the sentence or clause it supports, without an intervening space. DrKiernan (talk) 08:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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Charles Saatchi
editRegarding your edit summary of your recent edits to Charles Saatchi, "She [Heather Harvey] works for a charity that works with domestic violence victims and understands the subject", in my response to my edit summary reverting your original edit ("just the opinion of someone with an agenda having no first hand knowledge"): She works for a charity that works with domestic violence victims reinforces my point that she is someone with an agenda; and while she may understand the subject of domestic violence, there is no evidence she has knowledge of the subject of the article (Charles Saatchi), or of the facts of the event she is commenting on. --hulmem (talk) 17:22, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Even though you've likely received the WP:Ping on this matter, I'm alerting you here on your talk page to this thread. Flyer22 (talk) 20:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Honey reverts
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editCan you please fix the problems that you introduced into the article today? I'd like to preserve the addition you intended to make -- but something went wrong, and if it isn't fixed I'll have to revert it all. Thanks. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 14:18, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
I fixed it, material from a RationalWiki article got accidentally copied here. i appreciate your tactful comment. Proxima Centauri (talk) 18:01, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
you may be interested
editYou may be interested in Education of the British Royal Family and the heated debate that is ongoing at this new article. LavaBaron (talk) 20:45, 21 April 2016 (UTC)-
Peter Ball - reference problems
editHi, in this edit you introduced a reference "ref name=K.P.Wood04/01/2016/" but did not define it. This is producing an error message in the reflist on the page. DuncanHill (talk) 14:20, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorted. Proxima Centauri (talk) 17:51, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 17:58, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
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Ark Encounter: attendance
editHere's an interesting thread in Reddit that I came across while googling for Ark Encounter attendance: I visited Ken Ham's Ark Encounter on opening weekend. AMA. I had been wondering how it would do and it appears is that the place is not that interesting to be at to begin with. It's neither a theme park nor a "museum", but a strange combination of both. Who would want to be indoors at a theme park? K.e.coffman (talk) 16:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
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Unattributed statements of opinion
editIn several places you have added statements of opinion as if they were facts, e.g. in National Health Service and Premiership of Theresa May. Please try to make sure in future that you attribute any statements of opinion to whoever was making them, e.g. "John Smith in the Guardian wrote that X is true" rather than "X is true." Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 12:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
I try to attribute opinions but sometimes it's hard to tell what's fact and what's opinion. Proxima Centauri (talk) 12:48, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
I added an attribution. Still frankly I feel so many people have criticised May's grammar school plan calling it controversial is objective. Proxima Centauri (talk) 13:05, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
I looked at National Health Service#Investment, funding and efficiency and read the source again for the suggestion that either funding must increase or the service must be cut. You're right, the source definitely states the opinion of the Royal College of Physicians though I think other sources expressed the same opinion. I have been paying attention to attribution but I'm sorry, I overlooked that one. Proxima Centauri (talk) 14:54, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
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editI've been thinking about moving all the NHS England stuff from the NHS page to the English NHS page for a while, but just haven't found the time! Thanks so much for so beautifully incorporating it there! Zeromonk (talk) 14:02, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for the appreciation. Proxima Centauri (talk) 14:31, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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(Words and phrases like "massive" and phrases like "half-a-million alone" are biased. I understand everyone has an opinion, but just try to stay netural. I fixed your bias by the way. Just a bit of a joke with the whole format.)
I think you're a human pretending to be a bot. Proxima Centauri (talk) 16:18, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Double and triple spacing after full stops
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I don't know of any rule, as far as I know single or double spacing after a full stop is OK. Three spaces is certainly too much, if that happens I've overlooked it. Proxima Centauri (talk) 07:52, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Proxima, you may have missed the discussion at the talk page. The amount of content you have added to the page goes way beyond WP:UNDUE, and seems to be a collation of every negative article you can find about the topic, instead of a balanced summary of the topic. I suggest you discuss at the talk page rather than reverting. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 10:08, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag
editWould you have a look at the above article's page? We are discussing whether a move to a different spelling for her first name might be in order. I don't understand how the current spelling gained preference over "Mariam" or "Maryam".--Quisqualis (talk) 15:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
- I don't know about the spelling either. Sorry I can't help. Proxima Centauri (talk) 16:23, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
editYes- important- but how do you justify putting this one highly political statement here without mentioning all failures of LAs to fulfil their statutory duties. Whats the cunning plan. Are you just parking this here while you provide a full article on Failures of right wing regimes to provide tor the needs of the poor in thee United Kingdom? It can't remain here unless equivalent material is added that will double the length of the article. --ClemRutter (talk) 09:50, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
- I haven't got sources for those other statutory failures. Proxima Centauri (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
NPOV on HM Prison Service and other articles
editOn the article Her Majesty's Prison Service, I noticed that the "Criticism" section had grown from being non-existent just over a year ago until just before I edited it today. I did a word count and calculated that the criticism section accounted for 58% of the article's content. It read as a gradual collation of every single recent article about the effects of austerity on prisons, frequently criticising current government policy without giving them a voice. Even taking into account the recent publicity about disorder and riots in prisons, the article was in need of urgent change.
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- An article should always try to show the 'big picture'. It's so easy to zoom in and dwell on the negative side of things, and as human beings this is something we are hard-wired to do. However, if something is actually doing an acceptable job, this ought to be mentioned before discussing its failings.
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Hope this helps. Anywikiuser (talk) 15:21, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
- You clearly haven't listened to what I have been trying to tell you. Anywikiuser (talk) 12:42, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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editI mentioned your recent edit to this article here. Kablammo (talk) 14:55, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
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Would you like to join? It's been pretty dead for years, but you seem to be getting stuck in. Maybe its a place we can discuss some of the difficulties. It's easy to write about individual trusts and hospitals, but the bigger issues are more problematic.Rathfelder (talk) 17:17, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
What would you like me to do? Proxima Centauri (talk) 17:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
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editEdits on Ravi Zacharias
editDear Proxima Centauri,
you recently blanket reverted and edit of mine with the summary: "If you think so much should be taken out please discuss it on the talk page." [1]
I guess you are confusing my edits with other edits that attempt to remove large parts of actual content from the article (e.g. Fredparker), as you have opened a section on such edits on Talk. If so, you ocmpletely misunderstand my edit. My reverted edit actually consists of three different issues that just came together in this one edit:
1. The largest part is removing again the additions of User:Wouldjesuswritethis, who - under the summary "accuracy of facts" - is bent on making a big issue out of the RZIM board not making the identities of their members public. I have discussed this removal at Talk:Ravi_Zacharias#Notable_or_undue_weight?. I initially did not aim at remove the entire issue but merely integrating it better, avoiding repetitons and attributing the criticism as such (and not fact). [2] After reviewing the matter, I found out that the issue was based only on a single source. I suspected that this was a case of WP:UNDUE weight and hence removed it alltogether [3], explaining myself on talk. Obviously, I would have no problem in returning to my previous version, if that is the consensus.
Apparently, this all went right over the head of User:Wouldjesuswritethis, who then returned and reinstated his original, unacceptable version.May I also point out that that editor, has a certain history of this. Take a look at this revert. This "twisting a statement into its opposite" is even more obvious here.
2. I also removed an entire section titled "Fallout and Closure of RZIM", recently added by an IP user [4]. The reasons for this are that it was not only unsourced but it also contained no additional information beside RZIM clearing "all data and information" from their website. The "Open Letter" was already mentioned and quoted from as was the UK branch cutting their ties. The reaction of RZIM Canada was also already included.
3. Finally, there is one little change that probably upset you the most: the word "rape". I removed it from the intro and section headers [5] not because I somehow oppose or deny rape allegation against RZ but because as of now the article doesn't support it. Right now the only other occurence of the word "rape" in the article is a report from Christianity Today that
One woman told the investigators that "after he arranged for the ministry to provide her with financial support, he required sex from her." She called it rape.
IMHO that is too small a basis for the other occurences of the word. Remember that the introduction and the headers are supposed to be only summaries of the actual content of the article.
Now, I have very little reason to believe that a predator like RZ has not raped anyone or that nobody has accused him of actual rape. I am almost certain that the reports are somewhere out there. But until they are included in the article, the intro cannot summarize what's not in the article.
I hope this helps in understanding my edit a little bit better, so that we can avoid any further blanket reverting.
Regards, Str1977 (talk) 11:18, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
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editno, it is not too long for a short description Wesoree (talk) 18:05, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
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I don't undertaand this, I always clearly mark copied material as a quote and give a source. Proxima Centauri (talk) 18:44, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
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I assume you mean this and this, which are spurced from The Guardian snd The Guardian is certainly reliable. Please do not pretend otherwise. Proxima Centauri (talk) 15:22, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Proxima Centauri, yes. And yes, The Guardian is considered to be generally reliable, although per WP:RSP
Some editors believe The Guardian is biased or opinionated for politics
, so using for such needs a great deal of care. - That's not quite the point here though, the point is that even The Guardian doesn't support what you wrote. It doesn't support that she resigned
over alleged 'security breaches'
. It doesn't say that's why she resigned, it uses that phrase when it says that sheis under pressure to answer fresh questions about alleged 'security breaches'
. Talking about why she resigned it says shefell on her own sword over a 'technical infringement of the rules' after using a personal email address to send an official document
, which is from her resignation letter where there is no mention of security breaches at all. You need to be more careful with your interpretations. -- DeFacto (talk). 17:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
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I believe the Evening Standard, which I sourced[1] is reliable. Proxima Centauri (talk) 15:16, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Proxima Centauri, you made this edit though. Where is
Berry is strongly criticlal [sic] of Suella Braverman's security breach
supported (you put it in Wiki's voice, so it must be supported as an incontrovertible fact) in that Evening Standard cite? The closest it gets is when it says hehas claimed Suella Braverman committed 'multiple breaches of the ministerial code'
. It nowhere mentions "security breach" other than when describing a Labour reaction. It says sheadmitted to a 'technical infringement' of the rules
. Perhaps it time to stop trawling the web for negative comments about Tory MPs, and re-interpreting them into Wiki articles, until you understand how to apply Wiki's policies? -- DeFacto (talk). 18:07, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
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Two of us want this, This is Paul wants it as well as I do. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2023_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=1135135065&oldid=1135133963 DeFacto has ben edit warring. Proxima Centauri (talk) 11:21, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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editIn this edit you pasted the full external link to a policy page.
Inside Wikipedia, even in edit summaries, that long link can be replaced with a normal Wiki link to the page and section using the standard link syntax, like this [[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a newspaper]]
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Or better still, most policy and guideline sections give a shortcut at the top-right somewhere next to the section heading - the one you cited gives a shortcut of WP:NOTNEWS
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