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Thanks for the information. I'll apply this going forward. JohnAdams1800 (talk) 15:23, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Midwestern United States

Just letting you know that I removed the thumbs of the cities to fix the sandwiched text at Midwestern United States#German Americans. I saw that you were trying to fix the formatting and I believe this takes care of it. 636Buster (talk) 16:45, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Note on Status Quo Stonewalling

Hi John, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. While I have no doubt that you are contributing in good faith for the better of the encyclopedia, I am concerned that based on some of your recent edit summaries, some of which is bordering on WP:Stonewalling. Around the beginning of 2023, especially in years articles, we have had quite a few issues with regard to some editors' compliance with the stonewalling guidelines and one even being TBanned from Years entirely.

Some of your edits and comments do seem to imply that you wish we reinstate the old International Notability standards, the subject of an essay I wrote against implementing. If you wish to bring these standards back, it's going to be most beneficial for your cause that you propose them directly and not act as if a consensus existed. I understand that I may be fear-mongering, but I would like to give you a gentle reminder so we avoid a situation similar to Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., which we already had on ANI with regard to years. Thanks, and happy editing! InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 16:25, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to discuss on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years

Heya John. I noticed that despite some pings on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years inviting you to discuss on practices, I haven't seen your opinion. These discussions have a pretty big impact on years, and consider this a formal invitation to join us especially considering how frequently you contribute to the Years articles. Thanks! InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 21:01, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I replied to your top comment on "Was there ever a clearly-discussed consensus that Main Year Articles are to be international only?" Thank you for formally inviting me. JohnAdams1800 (talk) 22:36, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Graduate unemployment in China (December 17)

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Deprodding of Digital Copyright Act

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2024

You said here that there was a consensus to not include the content which you reverted. Could you direct to me where that consensus is? As far as my knowledge goes, a talk page discussion was just opened. 33ABGirl (talk) 16:46, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:2024#2024 Haneda Airport runway collision and Attempted assassination of Lee Jae-myung JohnAdams1800 (talk) 16:50, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain to me how one person opening a discussion is considered a consensus. 33ABGirl (talk) 16:52, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @33ABGirl I just want to add some context as to why the inclusion of this event is so contentious. Editors in years have previously taken strong stances on transportation disasters where they feel domestic flights and those with low death tolls don't belong in main year articles. For instance, Tara Air Flight 197 a flight that killed 22 people in 2022 is not in the main year article for 2022 as it was considered domestic, and I personally found myself fighting for inclusion of a deadlier air disaster that same year.

I think editors who frequently work on year articles, including myself, have been working on an unwritten consensus as to what warrants inclusion while not doing a good enough job explaining why. Hopefully the talkpage entry can better allow everyone to reach a consensus, even if it isn't something these users agree with. PaulRKil (talk) 17:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PaulRKil Thank you for providing this clarification. I have no objections to inclusion based on documented consensus. My issue here is that the content was removed with the edit summary there is a consensus that.....didn't merit an entry in this article, when there was clearly no discussion on the content beforehand. This was a straightforwardly untrue statement, so I wanted an explanation for it. 33ABGirl (talk) 04:33, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

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January 2024 (2)

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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Absolute monarchy

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March 2024

This edit summary was unwarranted. Vandalism--Vladimir Putin's statements alone do not qualify to be on this page... Please be aware that the word vandalism has a very specific meaning on WP, which does not include good-faith additions. 33ABGirl (talk) 05:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2024

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Animal Farm. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 14:12, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not add original research--the dogs in Animal Farm represent the secret police of the USSR (i.e. Cheka, NKVD, KGB, etc.) that were used to suppress dissent and conduct purges in the Soviet Union.

I am familiar with the history of the Soviet Union (I edited the Russian Civil War), and Mollie represents the White emigres who benefitted from the Tsarist system and fled Russia for Constantinople and Europe.

Similarly Stalin's liquidation of the kulaks, or smallholder peasants, was part of his Five Year Plans and purges in the 1930s. The hens represent the kulaks because they are part of the animals (the proletariat), and were forced to surrender their eggs (land) to Napoleon (Stalin).

JohnAdams1800 (talk) 01:51, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Making such claims without providing any sources to back up your assertions is the definition of original research. DonIago (talk) 06:11, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Republican Party discussion closure

Hello. I saw that you closed the discussion on the Republican party talk page. I think the closure is premature - it was made less than 24h after the last comment, and closures should be made by uninvolved editors. Cortador (talk) 13:54, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

May 2024

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Concern regarding Draft:Graduate unemployment in China

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Map of Sudan war

In the edit summary comment 'The photo is from March 11' you was obviously not right as it is not a photo firstly... And about the date: my correction of a location of one of the towns done on 11 (on a request by another user) does not warrant that on this day any information about the war was in fact updated. Unfortunatelly the map was not updated for a longer time.. ('unfortunatelly' in a case when there did happened some changes on the ground during the recent period).IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 11:27, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

May 2024

You need to read WP:TITLECHANGES and stop trying to impose your beliefs against Wikipedia policy. Stop moving the article. Dylanvt (talk) 15:40, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:Contentious topics. JohnAdams1800 (talk) 15:41, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're both edit warring and it must stop. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:34, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So I see that you're already aware of the CTOP designation, so let's skip that. NPOV disagreements are not exempt from 1RR. Only what is listed in WP:3RRNO and edits to enforce WP:ECR are exempt. Do not edit war. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:21, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Just a reminder that if you nominate another article for an AFD discussion, you should sign your nomination statement so that editors do not have to look at the page history to see which editor launched this deletion nomination. Basically, all statements on Talk pages and Project noticeboards should have a signature. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:40, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Malta

Whack!

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Good day. This is to inform you that you might have made a mistake in inserting this edit [1] in 2024 in Malta when you should have been inserting this in 2024 in Moldova. Borgenland (talk) 15:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Graduate unemployment in China

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Discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years

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US city articles

I noticed you have been cleaning up puffery from some US city articles. You may be interested in these RfC's:

per consensus - "affluent" not permitted in lead section.
per consensus - no rankings, such as "according to Happy Magazine, we are listed one of the top 12 happy cities."

Cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 21:16, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Solid South

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Arkansas

Why is Arkansas not listed as a Cotton States in your listing? CBY1995 (talk) 18:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which article are you referring to? If you're referring to the Cotton Belt, Arkansas is mentioned. If you're referring to the Deep South, Arkansas is sometimes considered to have territory in the Cotton Belt--the Arkansas Delta in Eastern Arkansas--but Arkansas as a whole is not considered a Cotton state.

At the time of the Civil War, 25.5% of Arkansas' population was African American slaves, which was the second-lowest of the 11 Confederate states, ahead of 24.8% in Tennessee. In particular, the Ozarks region of Arkansas is considered part of the Upland South, as is much of Northwestern Arkansas. JohnAdams1800 (talk) 18:15, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) and Israel–Hamas war

Can you help to remove WP:RECENTISM violation and undue weight from Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) and Israel–Hamas war. Pachu Kannan (talk) 15:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can, the bigger problem is the lack of an over-arching narrative for some sections, so instead they become timelines and daily update logs. JohnAdams1800 (talk) 16:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please update citations

Hello! When updating articles like Joe Biden, can you please also update the citations? That would avoid having a citation that can't support the sentence it's attached to in edits like this. Thank you. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 18:38, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Understood, I'll lock the discussion thread--closed. JohnAdams1800 (talk) 00:03, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I unlocked the thread and replied. I have no idea what Jeppiz was thinking here, I don't see any WP:NOTFORUM problem in your comment. Levivich (talk) 02:18, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)

Can you help to move unnecessary content from August 2024 and September 2024 section of this article to Timeline of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) per WP:RECENTISM and summarise this article. Pachu Kannan (talk) 13:10, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tony Hinchcliffe

Hi JohnAdams1800, while NotQualified shouldn't assume bad faith towards your edits, would you mind applying WP:BLPRESTORE / WP:ONUS to the current disputes about that biography? The onus to obtain a consensus for all of these additions is arguably rather on you than them. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:02, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I see what had happened now. I thought for a moment you had restored an edit after an objection to it had been raised. This didn't happen. Instead, there was just a technical edit conflict due to NotQualified selectively undoing one of your contributions while you were still editing the article in other places. Your edit summary of Special:Diff/1254019650 gave me the incorrect impression of having had seen an edit war between you, while there actually was none. Please disregard my message; you were probably already aware of these policy sections. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:16, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

just to be clear, they did not revert my reverts. i reverted their edits after the neutrality tag was added and the page protection came in. i told people to get consensus for the lede, as is the norm when a neutrality tag is in place. thank you ToBeFree. NotQualified (talk) 02:28, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Central High School (Fort Worth, Texas)

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Central High School (Fort Worth, Texas) . Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges.
It was clearly explained, above, that you should not add people to lists, unless they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia, but you have continued doing so. Please stop - Arjayay (talk) 12:37, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not introduce links in actual articles to user pages or sandboxes, as you did at Central High School (Fort Worth, Texas). Since these pages have not been accepted as articles, user pages, sandboxes and drafts are not suitable for linking in articles. and such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been deleted, please do not re-add any such links, thank you - Arjayay (talk) 12:37, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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