User talk:Icarus the Great

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dayv Brooks

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A tag has been placed on Dayv Brooks requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cnalwa (disambiguation)

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August 2015

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Dictatorship meaning

The word "dictatorship" is a noun, referring to "a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator, absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control, [or] the office or position held by a dictator" (Dictionary.com). Dictatorship can be used in reference to a country, or a system of government, but it cannot be used in reference to a conflict, since the term makes absolutely no sense in that context. In other words, the Yugoslav Wars or Rwandan Genocide cannot be dictatorships, since a conflict between two groups of people cannot, by definition, be a dictatorship. As a result, categorizing them as totalitarian dictatorships makes no sense. Articles are only added into a category if they can be verifiably shown to be an example of the category's topic, not if they have some slight involvement with it. Also, it's generally preferable to discuss major unilateral categorizations before you do them, especially if they're contentious and unsourced. Rwenonah (talk) 19:24, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your edits to Iran, can I also suggest that you read WP:BRD? Once you've had a bold edit reverted by another editor, you need to take the issue to the talk page, rather than just repeatedly making the same bold edit. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:06, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what your background is ethnically, nor do I care, but your edits and edit summaries show you are a biased, prejudiced and unreliable editor. Quis separabit? 20:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Johnathan Fredrick Felch for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Johnathan Fredrick Felch is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johnathan Fredrick Felch until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 02:47, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Steal a car and go to Las Vegas listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Steal a car and go to Las Vegas. Since you had some involvement with the Steal a car and go to Las Vegas redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:02, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dicators and dictatorships

Hello Icarus the Great. Would you please stop mass-tagging articles about countries and political leaders as "dictatorships" and "dictators", respectively? You appear to be new here, so you may not realize that these characterizations have been repeatedly discussed here over the years, and always found to violate our policies and guidelines prohibiting original research, biased points of view, and/or undue weight.

Quite apart from this, some of your tags seem so inappropriate that it suggests you aren't actually familiar with the subject. For example, tagging Leonid Brezhnev as a dictator flies in the face of a considerable body of reliable political and scholarly opinion, even from from staunchly anti-Soviet sources with firsthand knowledge of the man and of the Soviet government. (See for example the top-secret dossier, since declassified, which Henry Kissinger prepared on Brezhnev for the use of Gerald Ford. Kissinger repeatedly stresses that Brezhnev does not have absolute power but is actually obliged to act in accordance with the decisions of a wider collective leadership.)

In short, your mass-tagging seems ill-advised, bordering on disruptive. Please stop tagging further articles, and don't edit war to replace these tags when other editors remove them. —Psychonaut (talk) 09:47, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icarus the Great. Thank you. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:42, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]