User talk:Dashes

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Yes, don't let grumpy users like me scare you off. I look forward to seeing you around. If there's any advice I can give you, feel free to stop by my talk page and ask.Proabivouac 05:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ummm... Dashes, Essjay has gently nudged me to ask you whether I did a helpful or unhelpful thing by putting redirects at the old ID's user/talk pages to point to these new pages. (Note, none of the prior content is there, only the redirects to here.) I'd thought, in case someone clicks on your old posts (or searches for "User:your3letternickname") to comment to you, they should be pointed here. (Otherwise they might "create" the old ID's talk page by commenting there.) If you really want no link from the old ID, then I owe both you and Essjay an apology, because he'd be the one to delete those pages again. Please advise. -- Ben 06:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

... And I do apologize to both of you. -- Ben 05:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Question

You requested on my talk page that I delete your old userpage and talk page. It also seems, from a conversation with User:Benedict the Moor, that you may have wanted the redirects from your old pages to your new ones. We're now confused about whether the redirects should remain, or should be deleted. Please let me know which you prefer. Regards, Essjay (Talk) 06:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trigrams 'r you?

I saw an example of your preferred signature, and wondered if it was prompted by trigrams. You've definitely picked the main one! Shenme 07:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good faith

Your motivation does not matter; you removed sourced content and have not participated in the extensive discussion of those very sentences which has been going on for weeks on the talk page. Arrow740 01:15, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment regarding the Sikhism addition. The current Islam article has undergone intense scrutiny from about 10 editors with a wide range of views Islam, and the current version is the result of a lot of hard work and compromise. Of course you might have your own ideas about it. Arrow740 01:24, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edits on Islam

Hi Dashes, please dont remove sourced content like you did on Islam here. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 01:18, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Dashes, I'll explain a little bit. It doesnt matter if its a "subjective decision" of an author. If its a RS, its an RS and it belongs there. You cant remove sourced content like that. (WP:RS). If you want to see an example of this, see Criticism of Muhammad, which says a lot of stuff like e.g. "Martin Luther referred to Muhammad as "a devil and first-born child of Satan"" - this may be subjective and all, but its all sourced and so you cant remove it just becuase you didnt like the statement, for example. All that matters here is that everything is sourced with reliable sources and the people whose opinions are being featured are notable.--Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 01:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's no "trimming" needing to be done here. Policy doesnt say anything like that. This is all relevant stuff that belongs in the article. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 01:29, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dashes, you wrote:

But your edit removes other sourced material

So did yours, which is why I reverted it e.g. "Muslim women may not marry non-Muslim men" and "A Muslim man who converts to another religion must be executed", etc.etc. - why did you remove content like this? If you want to put in new stuff, you can add to it, but dont remove the old content. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 01:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Arrow740 01:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that; fixed now. Savidan 17:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks:)--†Sir James Paul† 01:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there

... I was the admin that answered your AIV report. Thanks for reporting, BTW. You have a cool username and sig, BTW. I had to click on it to figure out what it meant :) - Alison ☺ 03:08, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]