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false summary

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Robert W. Malone. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:48, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Map of national and regional parks in Italy

Ok, thanks: I have corrected on Wikimedia Commons in "Mappa dei parchi nazionali e regionali in Italia". Thanks again for your help. Hi, LukeWiller (talk) 20:28, 6 March 2022 (UTC).

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A barnstar for you!

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	For timely creating File:Italian Canadian population by Toronto subdivision.svg upon request. Great job! Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 22:22, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

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		This barnstar is awarded to Nsophiay for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:31, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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voorts (talk/contributions) 00:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

@Voorts: Thanks for the comment, I wasn't aware of this! --Nsophiay (talk) 23:10, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Northeast Region, Brazil

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This article is constantly attacked by residents of this region who do not know how to edit Wikipedia. The "cangaceiros" section has no sources and is unnecessary, leaving the "history" section gigantic. The article works as a general summary and if anyone wants more details, they should go to the corresponding sub-articles. Other bad users tend to place unnecessary political advertisements and try to maintain praise on a page that should try to remain neutral. I ask that you do not "watch" articles from the Northeast Region of Brazil and the Northeast states as if they were your property, this is also against Wikipedia rules. You have been on top of these articles since 2020, under clear "vigilance". 2804:14D:5C87:8E8C:40EC:184E:9175:38E1 (talk) 06:15, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Couple things to note:

1. As per WP:NOCITE, unless it's a biography or just blatantly absurd, you should not be deleting entire sections just because they are unsourced. I agree that the lack of sources is a problem in this section, but it should be dealt with by adding an {{unreferenced section}} template or by finding sources yourself. See also the guidelines on content removal, which state: When information is unsourced, and it is doubtful any sources are available for the information [not our situation], it can be boldly removed.
2. I also agree that the section is too detailed for an article like this and should be both copy edited for tone/grammar and pared down; it definitely takes up way too much space in the History section. Again, this does not entail deleting it altogether, as some of the information is still valuable.
3. I appreciate the ad hominem attack but I do not live in this region, nor have I ever even visited it. I was born and raised in Canada.
4. You are correct in stating that I keep vigilance over this page and other pages related to the Northeast region, but the reason I do so is because they are often the target of discriminatory vandalism and there aren't a lot of other people paying attention to them.

--Nsophiay (talk) 01:09, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I have an idea, actually. What would you say about me trying to improve the Cangaceiros section in my Sandbox or something, and then once I'm done, you and other editors (I will post it on the article talk page) can take a look and see if it's satisfactory? If, on the other hand, we conclude that even with improvements, the section is not worth salvaging, we can keep your edits. --Nsophiay (talk) 01:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Better not, leave it as it is. I'll explain what happens: Bahia and the Northeast Region are the equivalent for the rest of Brazil, in a light version, from the South of Italy to the North of Italy; or, from Palestine to Israel. It's Brazilian Afghanistan. The population there is the least literate in the country, the one that receives the worst education, the one that acts in the most violent way (there is the 'fish knife culture' in Alagoas and this topic about Cangaceiros is also a reflection of this, Cangaceiros were basically bandits) which produces less, has a bad economy, but paradoxically the population there thinks their region is the most impressive thing in the world (they are almost xenophobic, no one can say anything negative about their region or they become violent), they think they live in paradise and that the rest of the country has to bow to their wishes. And to top it off, they have caused problems in the last elections by voting in the opposite way to what the rest of the country votes. The rest of the country is organizing boycotts of tourism in the region and there are people talking about separating the Northeast and letting them fend for themselves. On Wikipedia, several people from the Northeast pay off-color praise for their region and describe it as if their region were Dubai, when it looks like Africa in economic and cultural terms. They exaggerate too much. There has already been users blocked from the Portuguese Wiki because of this xenophobia. So I don't understand that anyone deserves to protect articles from Bahia and the Northeast, we have to make sure it doesn't become something unrealistic.2804:14D:5C87:8E8C:2810:B157:91DF:6EB1 (talk) 14:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

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