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Inky Mark

Hi Gentek16, do you have another source for the Green Party besides Twitter, I searched but can't find one. Articles really need sources other than social networking sites like twitter, like a news article. I'm not picking, that's the way sources work. I see no problem leaving the twitter for now, I'm sure eventually a news article will mention the switch to Green Party. Also, there's no need to add references for the same content sourced in the text everywhere it appears (i.e infobox, and intro). I tried to cleanup the references there, they are mostly all blind urls. Cmr08 (talk) 03:11, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Question about your blanking of a section

Hi Gentek16, I'm unsure why you deleted this section of a political bio, characterizing it as vandalism: [1]. It may have been written in a less than neutral tone, and is ripe for editing. Perhaps a consensus will be reached that it's a passing news item that doesn't merit inclusion. But it's clearly not vandalism. Thank you, 73.159.24.89 (talk) 01:35, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Inky Mark/Green Party

Hi Gentek16, I see the IP editor is still reverting the content you added to the Inky Mark article. It's possible the IP was reverting because the only source you used was Twitter, but since the IPs have not bothered to explain the removal, there's no way to know what the problem is. As I stated above in December 2014, social networking sites like Twitter are not supposed to be used as references and that more appropriate sources like news articles were needed. Since you are still only relying on Twitter to source your edit, I did a quick google search and found two more appropriate news articles that confirm the content you added. I hope this is enough proof to satisfy the IPs and keep them from reverting the content again. Cmr08 (talk) 10:30, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Papineau handshake

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