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Ways to improve Selwyn (name)

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Thanks for creating Selwyn (name)! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

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Boleyn (talk) 19:14, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

@Boleyn: Thanks for looking at this. I merely moved the "article" content off the DAB page, which didn't fit well with MOS. I did not provide content. I used to do new page patrol, so I understand exactly where you are coming from. Dovid (talk) 22:35, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Dovid, I'll see if I can verify some of the lead section. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 07:06, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

A page you started (Ben Zion Shenker) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Ben Zion Shenker.

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MainlyTwelve (talk) 17:12, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Charles Rothschild

Hi Dovid, many thanks for your edits to this article. However, when an article uses the {{cite book}} or {{cite journal}} templates, it would be appreciated if new citations could follow the same pattern. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:41, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: I think you may be confusing my edits with someone else's. I didn't add, remove, or change any of the citations. I just improved some of the copy for style and readability. I noticed that previous edit was done by "Citation bot," which is an automated system to fix certain citations. Perhaps it made an edit that you found unwarranted? Dovid (talk) 20:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Many apologies, it seems so. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:33, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Thank you for creating Angela Orosz.

User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Nice work! Couple notes. Lead should be a summary of the article so it could use some building. Also the "one of only two babies" is a significant claim that is not sourced. Happy editing!

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North8000 (talk) 19:50, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

@North8000: bothhave been addressed. Thank you. Dovid (talk) 20:20, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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George Seitz

Hi Dovid, please refrain from re-adding superfluous detail viz. discussion of investigative processes, as well as terms such as "novel" which do not follow WP:NPV. Sideriver84 (talk) 05:08, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

@Sideriver84: please respect WP:REMOVAL. Have a discussion before you remove sourced content, which you did previously. "Superfluous" is a judgement call, and my judgement is different than yours. That's OK, but again, it calls for discussion.

I understand NPOV, but I don't think there's any violation here. If you don't like the term novel, fine, but it seems completely in line with the NYT-sourced description of "advanced technology." Advanced tech = new tech = novel; it loses its novelty whne it becomes common instead of advanced. Dovid (talk) 22:24, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

@Dovid: sourced information is not always necessary information. I will create a discussion in the future. Thanks, Sideriver84 (talk) 05:56, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

May 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Alex Clare. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. This is especially important for WP:DOB. Toddst1 (talk) 15:44, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Toddst1 Kindly demonstrate how that burden applies to reversions of inappropriate edits. Your previous reversion was inappropriate; you could have removed the birth dates without reverting other material. Would you have a BLP violation enforced against an eidtor who undid vandlasim, where the vandal happened to have deleted both sourced and uncourced material? Note that the birthdate was added over 13 months ago by another editor. I'm not sure how you managed to manually revert other material; I just did a standard revert of a bad edit using the automated tools. Dovid (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Yup. Restoring the unsourced DOB - Not ok. There was no vandalism. You don't have to like my edit but repeating yours will get you blocked. Toddst1 (talk) 16:12, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Reverting multiple edits from multiple editors without reviewing each one is vandalism. Restoring is not the same as reverting a bad edit. If I'm wrong, point me to teh specific policy that equates them, please provide. Dovid (talk) 17:42, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Douglas Murray (author). This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. 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.

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