User talk:2A01:C23:5D4C:8600:34B6:A570:DD6B:3E80

October 2023

Hello, I'm FatCat96. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to James Farish have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. FatCat96 (talk) 19:21, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, but I must say I am bewildered by this reaction. I did provide an edit summary "Undid obvious vandalism", and if you look at the revision which I undid (i.e. the one where a one-time editor had added the sentence "Rumor has it that he has [sic - we're talking about someone who lived in the 1830ies] one of the largest phalluses in Bombay history") I think you will understand why I didn't elaborate any more on my reasons for qualifying this as vandalims. It is true that superficially it may have looked to you as if the statement I deleted is sourced, but if you look at either the quoted page on google books itself (which, unsurprisingly, contains no information of this kind whatsoever), or at the history of this page (where you would have seen that the editor whom I consider a vandal simply inserted the above-quoted sentence before a reference which had already been in the article before, and which only provides information on which a preceding sentence is based), you will see that there is absolutely no reason to believe the edit I removed was based on reliable sources, or indeed made with any other intention than that of making a childish dick joke. So you may understand why I am bewildered that what you chose to treat as vandalism would have been my removal of this sentence, rather than the addition of it last year. 2A01:C23:5D4C:8600:34B6:A570:DD6B:3E80 (talk) 20:38, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

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