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walter williams

Hello, i also tried to upload the walter picture, but we have to use a special method to be assured that it will not be erased.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS

Maybee you could contact thomas sowell and ask him the same

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Alright, thanks. I did add the main article link. I will keep that in mind in the future. Marquis de Faux (talk) 17:57, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The more opinions on the issue the better, so I think it might be a good idea to ask Wikipedia:Wikiproject Politics and Wikipedia:Wikiproject Journalism or open a WP:RFC whether "politically liberal" should be added to the lead or not. Sro23 (talk) 03:26, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would also recommend an RFC. If you want a response from someone on other then their talk page, I would recommend the use of wp:notifications. For me, use {{ping|Jim1138}} Four score and seven years ago... ~~~~ add the ping, message, sign and save all three with one "Save changes" or it may not work. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 05:24, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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	Good catch on Huffington Post! That's been there for five days! Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 04:41, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, It seems your (and others') recent input has been ignored on the Breitbart News page regarding the term "right wing" and "far right", from Nov 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Breitbart_News/Archive_3#Compromise_language:_.22right-wing.22 and the user "MrX" is attempting to ignore the consensus (or lack thereof). Perhaps you can intervene if you have time; as an IP user I cannot do much. 81.157.83.173 (talk) 14:59, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry about this - I didn't mean to remove it when reverting parts of the previous edits. SmartSE (talk) 10:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Regarding you reverting my edit on HuffPost. You said "Censorship in Egypt is not specific to HuffPo" , Do you mean HuffPost need to be the only censored site in Egypt so that i can write about its censorship ? Or do you refer to me mentioning other censored sites along with HuffPost in that section ? . Thank you . The storms (talk) 02:23, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Liberty and Trump and Avi, Oh my!

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President Donald Trump Speaks at Liberty University Commencement Ceremony

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WikiProject Conservatism Comes Under Fire

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WikiProject Conservatism was a topic of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incident (AN/I). Objective3000 started a thread where he expressed concern regarding the number of RFC notices posted on the Discussion page suggesting that such notices "could result in swaying consensus by selective notification." Several editors participated in the relatively abbreviated six hour discussion. The assertion that the project is a "club for conservatives" was countered by editors listing examples of users who "profess no political persuasion." It was also noted that notification of WikiProjects regarding ongoing discussions is explicitly permitted by the WP:Canvassing guideline.

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You have recently WP:CANVASSed the editors Winkelvi, InedibleHulk, Power~enwiki and Moxy in relation to a content dispute on the Washington Times page. Three of these editors have fairly predictable attitudes on the content dispute in question (I am not familiar with InedibleHulk), which strongly suggests that you are "selectively notifying editors who have or are thought to have a predetermined point of view or opinion". Winkelvi has a record of scrubbing reliable sourced content (for any reason) whenever text and sources reflect poorly on a conservative cause or figure. Moxy has a record of complaining of news spam (on noticeboards, article talk pages and even my talk page[1]) and trying to remove RS content when it's sourced to news outlets (when you contacted Moxy, you for some reason opted to frame it as being about news spam). Power~enwiki recently sought to remove RS news content from Fox News [2] (the exact same RS news content that you yourself once sought to remove)[3]. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:57, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. I'll add this to my watchlist and keep an eye on things. This type of fringe POV pushing is not acceptable. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 04:34, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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