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Discrimination against aspec (aromantic or asexual) people

Can you please explain why the article is sufficiently different from the two you linked in the hatnote? Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 21:24, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

It is the umbrella term for it as some discrimination is targeted at both aromantic and asexual people alike.
It was mainly a starting point since the article on Discrimination against asexual people claimed that aphobia was just against asexual people, which is incorrect.
But if you feel the new page I created should instead just be a disambiguation page for starters as it doesn't have much content, that's fair too. Raladic (talk) 21:33, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
You may want to create the Arophobia article instead (this currently points to a section of Aromanticism). Then aphobia would become a dab for both articles. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 23:30, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
I just tagged the new page Discrimination against aspec (aromantic or asexual) people as the more precise title per Wikipedia:Article titles#Precision and disambiguationas a DAB page a bit earlier, since that's what is mainly is right now (though the intro-section explaining that aphobia encompasses both sub-topics still feels relevant to leave on the page) and per the precise title guidelines it still feels more appropriate to have the full text page be the page and aphobia just redirecting to it.
I don't think the content that is currently the sub-page on Aromanticism#Discrimination and cultural erasure is enough to need it's own page just yet, so I think for now having arophobia redirect into it is fine and I've added the disambiguation links accordingly for now.
Let me know what you think. Raladic (talk) 23:38, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

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—Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:44, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Revert

Hey, regarding this edit, please carefully review what you're restoring before you revert, especially when dealing with BLPs. Thanks! Throast {{ping}} me! (talk | contribs) 22:20, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Noted, apologies that I missed that the birthplace was still unsourced, I saw you corrected it. Raladic (talk) 22:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy

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Most of the material you added back is your WP:onus

Hello. I'm happy to work with you on Xenophobia in the United States. Since you are adding everything back that was never discussed in the first place, Wp:onus is yours personally. I have reservations about the npov, the unclear RS connections to xenophobia, and the issues with synonymous use of the term anti-immigration policies, especially in the Donald Trump section. You need to discuss before adding it.

I've made many edits in about 5 materially different ways and opened 3 discussions, but you decided to revert all without addressing the cited policy for any of them. And again WP:onus is clearly on the previous additions for much of it, not on my removal. There are no previous discussions on this article.

I've reverted back to my most recent edit, then I welcome you to manually revert any specific area and provide policy based reasons. Then we can discuss. I'll pause and wait for you.

If you just wholesale revert everything again without citing policies I'll consider that edit warring.

I look forward to making a good article with you. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 15:39, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

WP:preserve is a strong motivating policy here also. The article needs much work. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 16:10, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
In your reversion you've referred to yourself (as a different IP) as consensus of a previous editor which is a violation of WP:BADSOCK of pretend consensus.
Just saying something is WP:onus doesn't mean you can just go and remove content when it is generally agreed upon by the cited sources that some of the anti-immigration policies come from an origin of xenophobia by its very definition and thus passes the onus on inclusion. Raladic (talk) 16:14, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I don't have control over my IP and it keeps changing this week for some reason. I'm petty clear on IP talk pages which ones are me, especially when edits by two IPs are ending up on the same page. There is other IP activity on that page that is not me, going back a ways, so there might very well be sock activity or something else, but it ain't me. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 16:21, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm eager to discuss anti-immigration vs xenophobia, including how that might affect a Trump admin section. I made a discussion section for it. There's been no discussion on the talk page until me, so yes, I do think you need to make, there, the argument for that Trump admin section. Then I can pick the section apart more glandularly, if you make a good argument in the first place.
As to my other edits, maybe address those at least a little, here or there. I think a made some pretty good edits in keeping with WP:preserve. The version you've restored is pretty bad in a number of ways. If like to quickly determine which of those things are least likely to get your revert, then we can snowball into the bigger things. Thanks. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 16:27, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I did reply on the article talk page with an article by the Washington post that links the two issues hand in hand, thus providing the Onus of why the inclusion of the section is relevant to the article.
What I mentioned above was because the words in your edit summary were "Made edit per user talk page of previous editor." which makes it looks to others that you are saying a different editor created the talk page content and you agree with it, which makes it appear as if there were two editors agreeing, which can be mistaken as sockpuppetry. Raladic (talk) 16:30, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
That message refers to you. You were the previous editor on whose talk page I posted. I could have been more clear, sorry. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 17:07, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
When in doubt, diff. I should know that by now. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 17:08, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I must say, I'm really disappointed that you immediately went to trying to block my participation with a low stakes page protect, since I prefer to edit by IP. Like I said above, I made so many edits that I think you'd not revert. I can't even try to sweep up the little ones. 207.236.147.164 (talk) 17:59, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
If you traced the time, you'd find that I requested the page protection right after your first re-reverted of the changes by @RolandR instead of following WP:BRD to avoid further WP:DISRUPTIVE editing.
You then did it again when you again re-reverted the changes a second time, despite my ask in the first edit summary to please first actually get consensus on the talk page, which requires you to wait for people to actually have a chance to respond and not just going and making the same changes again. Raladic (talk) 19:46, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Edit summaries are a reply. RolandR's summary was "no improvement". That's flippant and I certainly can't expect he would go to the talk page. Editors simply don't, when they leave flippant edit summaries. They go by edit, revert, ignore. So I revert, and leave another detailed edit summary. That is discussion and that's why 3RR is the generic recommendation (so you eventually go to the talk page when things get sticky). Nevermind that I created the talk page preemptively. That article has zero concensus because it's never been discussed, so "you can't edit this without consensus" is a specious argument. Yes, it's true, but the process of finding consensus necessarily requires editing throughout. Wp:BRD. Read it again. You're treating it like it's regimented policy, instead of a theory of collaboration. A revert of a revert, with an applicable and detailed edit summary is BRD. 3RR is the policy. I revert a flippant revert once and you're trying to block me?
Disruptive editing is a pattern of editing that disrupts progress toward improving an article or building the encyclopedia. A pattern, not an instance of two reverts. Bold, revert, and ignore is disruptive. Your own revert, if you actually put in a little effort, should have been to look at all the work I did, consider the edit summaries, which reference policy and the talk page for more, and then you add back the Trump admin section as a manual revert with a detailed edit summary. Reverting in one go 15 or so edits that are materially different in 5 ways is disruptive. It robs me of the effort I put into the edits you probably would like. You made no attempt, just jumped to revert with a specious summary, and then the shortest path to preventing my participation. It was easy, but did you accomplish anything or collaborate with an enthusiastic editor? 142.115.142.4 (talk) 23:17, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
The way you do it is WP:BRDWRONG. 142.115.142.4 (talk) 23:20, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
And the you go and make your own lede edit. That was my suggestion and initial edit effort for the article. And there's an open talk page discussion about that. Where's your talk page message about it? You need concensus before you edit that. Do you see how that's hypocritical? And maybe you see how disenfranchised you've made me? You should be discussing my edit, not blocking me then making your own. 142.115.142.4 (talk) 23:39, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I have replied in the article talk page, presenting citations that show that the content is relevant to the topic of the article. That doesn't mean it can't be improved, but it means that you can't just go and erase it all because you don't like it in its entirety. Instead you should refine it or tag it.
The reason why I have improved the lead of the article is precisely because of your talk page request to do so and I agreed with that it can be improved, so I compared the existing lead to your change and made the change. Just like I re-included the change by another user about internments (which you had also erased in your second re-revert).
No one argued that all your changes were bad, but your actions were clearly disruptive and instead of improving things by tagging them or refining, you just erased large chunks and are now leaving large essays on peoples talk pages, so you may want to read WP:FILIBUSTER.
Please take the discussion to the article talk page so that it stops being splintered between here, the other editors user page and the actual article talk page where the central discussion on further changes should happen. Raladic (talk) 00:06, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

If you aren't already aware, you might want to have a look at WP:ANI#Incivility_in_talk_and_edit_summaries_from_MrOllie,_ultimate_result_is_disruptive_editing. where there is some discussion of this IP user's editing. - MrOllie (talk) 00:31, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Minor edits

I see you tagged two edits to Rainbow flag as minor while both edits changed the meaning and content of the prose; this is not correct use of the minor tag. Please read WP:MINOR carefully and only use it per the guidance. You should also consider leaving more descriptive edit summaries than "lnk"; see WP:EDITSUMMARY. Cheers. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 02:47, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Fair enough, I tagged them minor as the understanding of
  • correcting wikilinks
per WP:MINOR - in this case, correcting them to the now agreed upon term of the renamed page, but I hear your point that it does also technically change the prose. Raladic (talk) 02:49, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

LGBT Pride vs Gay Pride

Tnx for the edit to PFLAG's page. I almost reverted on assumption that back in 2004 the San Francisco parade was probably still called "Gay Pride", but then realized that your edit was to avoid a Wiki redirect and didn't affect the verbiage on a viewer's screen. (My wife & I were honorary grand marshals of Houston's Pride Parade in 2002, and I think locally it continued to be styled colloquially as Gay Pride rather than LGBT Pride for a number of years. Also when we joined P-FLAG in the early 1990's the initialism was GLBT rather than LGBT.)

And note that I wrote PFLAG's name with a hyphen, which I still tend to use for pronouncability. The hyphen was dropped with a restyling of the logo some years ago. Shortly thereafter a group from Houston was in DC advocating for hate crimes legislation and a waitress seeing my name tag asked "What is "Ploough?")

Irv Smith, Austin TX Casey (talk) 13:28, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of List of rainbow crossings for deletion

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Fram (talk) 12:18, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

SPÖ leadership election

Hi,

do you know how "candidates" and "total votes" can be moved from center to align left ?

In the table code, it already shows up as "align left", but it's still center. Others are left-sided.

Glasperlenspieler (talk) 15:46, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

It appears correctly left-aligned to me and the results are correctly right aligned. Raladic (talk) 15:50, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
No, the 2 words "candidates" and "total votes" are in the center on my tablet, not left. The names of the candidates are correctly on the left. Glasperlenspieler (talk) 15:54, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Ah the columns headers, you mean.
I think those can't be changed and are always center aligned - Help:Table#Horizontal alignment in cells Raladic (talk) 16:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Ah sh*t, but thanks. It would definitely look better if everything in the left column would be left-aligned ... Glasperlenspieler (talk) 16:02, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Unreliable Reference

Swanley (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location (citypopulation.de) https://citypopulation.de/en/uk/southeastengland/admin/sevenoaks/E04012399__swanley/

Was the reference used for the page and is the same reference used by Swanley Town Council who I work for! Swanleytowncouncil (talk) Swanleytowncouncil (talk) 15:28, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

As you may have found on your User talk:Swanleytowncouncil#June 2023 page - I have added some links to what constitutes a reliable source for Wikipedia and there is no consensus for citypopulation.de - it would be preferred to reference the census bureau directly from https://www.ons.gov.uk/census.
please also note that I placed a warning regarding your username on your talk page and it appears you have been blocked for said username by an administrator now to address the concern. Raladic (talk) 15:37, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Split attraction model

Hi, one of the sources I added (https://www.aromanticism.org/en/news-feed/splitting-attraction-history-j4y96) was already cited at the bottom of the page under "further reading" before I edited the article. AUREA is one of the leading advocacy organizations for the aromantic community. Tdmurlock (talk) 06:48, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Please don't split discussions, I already left a note on your user talk page about the revert.
And while I agree that AUREA is one of the leading advocacy organizations for Aromanticism, it didn't conclude what your concludion in the edit was, that came from the student blog, which is both primary and unreliable.
And while AUREA has some good resources, most of their content is also primary, which unfortunately without other supporting reliable secondary sources backing it up, also doesn't make it a good WP:RS and should only be used sparingly by itself. Raladic (talk) 06:54, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
When you posted on my talk page you said "If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page". I've added some additional sources demonstrating evidence of the split attraction model's controversy. Tdmurlock (talk) 07:14, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

August 2023

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Note - Just a polite request for clarification Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Note - as of now the template is not reverted Thewikizoomer (talk) 16:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia policies on WP:RS and when and when not attribution is required. In most cases when we have reliable secondary sources, no attribution to who said something is made.
The article is watched by many many users and the consensus is that it is written to Wikipedias standards and policies. Please first get consensus on the article talk page after you've read the policies on attribution.
Please also take a look at WP:DONTTEMPLATE. Raladic (talk) 16:48, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Template:Discrimination sidebar

I recently added Ethiopia and Eritrea in Template:Discrimination sidebar. and you delete them. Why do you think they are not for talking about discrimination in spite the list says "Ethnic/national"? AsteriodX (talk) 16:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

You have the wrong user - Please contact the person of this change which removed them. Raladic (talk) 16:54, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
Oops!, sorry for the mistake. AsteriodX (talk) 17:01, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

I am LGBT person and need help of the community

I am LGBT old man. I like to write biographies. 4 years ago I did the biography of the most famous transvestite in Argentina who suffered death threats during the military dictatorship for being LGBT. Articles about him have just come out in magazines in Argentina and they are preparing a series on his life. He is a third generation artist, his mother and grandmother was famous singers and actresses.

A well-known writer made the mother and grandmother Wikipedia and the mother also.

In the middle of that, an editor appeared and changed the name of the famous transvestite by his own decision, I complained and he reversed it. But later he attacked the biography of the mother and grandmother with absurd excuses. My friend complained and I also attacked him.  At this point I believe he does not like LGBT people (as most people that lives in Florida State), He is an explosive person.

He asked that the biography of the grandmother who was very famous last century be deleted, the other editors asked not to, they want it to be kept on Wikipedia, so he added on the page

"Stop accusing me of WP:IDONTLIKEIT and stop WP:HOUNDing me ! I am extremely upset over you and your comrades making ridiculous WP:ASPERSIONS against me in response to this AfD. Jalen Folf (talk) 22:47, 5 September 2023"

and no one have said nothing wrong to him… Since that was not enough, now he accuses that all those who asked to KEEP are puppets?? and wrote this mentioning the 3 bios. ( He only asked deletion of Anita but I know he will return for one by one)

"Re: Anita Bobasso, Jorge Perez Evelyn, and Hilda Dehil

To the users involved in these subjects: please leave me alone! I'm upset over all the WP:HOUNDing and WP:ASPERSIONS cast against me in response to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anita Bobasso. Also, to watchers, if you're interested in the extent of this abuse, I've opened an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ragazzodeitalia. Jalen Folf (talk) 23:36, 5 September 2023 (UTC)".

I was very curious about his violent personality and opened his profile to find that he suffers from something similar to autism (asperberg syndrome) which justifies his explosive character and bad mood AND I FEEL SORRY ABOUT IT, but does NOT justify all the evil he wants to do and gets angry if they don't let him do what he wants.

Now he posts on his page that he has a lot of stress and will move away from wikipedia...but an hour later he comes back to write something else. It's incredible.

Can you help me to get him away from me? Let the biographies alone? I am sure next, he will attack again the “Jorge Perez Evelyn” bio because is LGBT (he is going against one by one)… I don't know everything about Wikipedia and I don't know what to do. I'm very frustrated and so is my friend.

Please help me I'm a very old LGBT. I hope your help! Thank you Ragazzodeitalia (talk) 01:19, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

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aspec

Even though you reverted my edits with regards to "aspec" meaning "asexual spectrum", these terms should still be discussed. Iterresise (talk) 09:15, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Aromanticism (disambiguation)

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Page protection request

Hi, Raladic. I wanted to make sure you understand why I declined your request for page protection for the article Adam and Eve. Most vandalism gets handled exactly the way you're doing it: keeping an eye on an article and reverting the problems as they occur. For the most part, this works out fine. Page protection is generally reserved for times when the problematic edits are hitting so fast that simple reverts become really difficult. Here is an example from an article that another admin protected, that shows rapid-fire vandalism from multiple accounts and IPs. Joyous! Noise! 05:03, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

@Joyous!: - It's a designated contentious topic per WP:ARBPS, so WP:CTOP applies, which includes standard set including increased page protection, I have warned the user that you pointed out that semi wouldn't have fixed, about it. But nonetheless, if you look at the history of the article, it is literally just a series of repeated vandalisms until semi at least shut most of that down with the summer protection that just expired.
So whether you protect it now, or in a week, it will be back on RPP in short order for sure, with just extra work for users to remove the vandalism, so I think it's time to invoke CTOP and protect it for good. Raladic (talk) 05:10, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

User Warnings

Hey this is a bit belated but I'd like to ask you please be mindful of how and when you warn new users or IPs. This was a little heavy for an editor who made one reversion and was by all accounts communicative in edit summaries. There's precious little guidance on using UWs and I won't pretend for a moment that you've violated any policy I'm aware of but regardless please give new editors a little more slack. Thank you for your time. GabberFlasted (talk) 18:49, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@GabberFlasted - Fair. It appeared to me without a warning that the user would have ran straight into 3rr as both their initial change and the first revert of your change were very strongly worded in WP:IMRIGHT territory, so I figured warning them early rather them running into 3rr was the right call of action based on my judgment call at the time. But I hear you about considering grace. Thanks for your note. Happy editing. Raladic (talk) 23:11, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Transgender

All of my edit have valid sources. Why did you revert them? Please help meRudrik88 (talk) 09:32, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your message. I read your message and I want to talk about it. I Joined Wikipedia in few days ago, and I do not have much experience. I only want to add some countries to the "Legality" section (because only two or three countries in this section). Can you revert my edit, if some sections are incorrect, you can remove them. Please!Rudrik88 (talk) 12:11, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Per the guidance I gave you on your talk page, you can raise an edit request on the article talk page for changes and someone will review them and can add them to the article. Raladic (talk) 15:45, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your help!Rudrik88 (talk) 12:39, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

"slurred names"

Please do not retcon the citation record as you did here. The name of the journal when the publication happen is what should be used, not updated names. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:54, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

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Sentence case

Whatever the outcome of all this is, the title should be in sentence case - queerphobia does not take a capital q. Best Girth Summit (blether) 18:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Whoops, good point. Moving it now to sentence case. Raladic (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

thanks for commenting on my help page

much appreciated Peckedagain (talk) 13:38, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Good edit, wrong reason

Hi, Raladic. Thanks for your edit at Feminism, which was an appropriate change which improved the article. But there was a problem. Your edit summary was:

Replace two noun uses of female with women since females as a noun is often dehumanizing and disparaging, refer to Female#Etymology and usage.

This gets the reasoning for this beneficial edit all wrong, and is not a sufficient justification to make the change that you did, for multiple reasons: it amounts to your original opinion, is backed only by reference to another Wikipedia article which is an unreliable source, and it sounds like some kind of private campaign. It was still the right move, but not for that reason, but for a different one: even though the source in question (Roberts (2017)) used both words, including the term females without any of the kind of dehumanizing tone that you claimed in your edit summary, the source also used the word women, and used it more often, and more to the point used women in the context of the dress standards being discussed in the part of the source which was being summarized at that point in the article.

So, the edit was an improvement, but for the wrong reason: the right reason is WP:STICKTOTHESOURCE, which is the part of our WP:No original research policy. Going forward, please base your changes exclusively on Wikipedia's policy and guidelines. And once again, thanks for your edit to Feminism. Mathglot (talk) 18:51, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, I’ll keep it in mind to make sure my edit summary is accurate and in line with the policies as you called out. Raladic (talk) 20:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Apologies

My undo on the No queerphobia talk page was unintentional, must have hit something while dragging my cursor. (I was surprised when I hit my watchlist and saw I'd edited the article, but you beat me to fixing it.) -- Nat Gertler (talk) 23:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Ah no worries, happens to all of us sometimes. Raladic (talk) 23:29, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

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Why did you revert my edit as "not linked to the LGBT community", while there are other similar flags in the article, also not related to LGBT, such as Leather pride flag? Trang Oul (talk) 19:59, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

This has been discussed before, last time Talk:Pride flag#Polyamory and Leather Flags, Leather has a long history with the LGBT community, and as such also often features in pride parades around the world, but the same isn’t true for the flag and community you added. You can start a discussion on the Pride flag talk page of course if you want other editors input, but it will likely echo what I just said, which is why I reverted your addition. Raladic (talk) 20:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

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Unfounded accusation of vandalism

I see that the tool you have used to revert me on Transgender rights in the United Kingdom, RW 16.1, is described as a counter-vandalism tool i.e. you are calling me a vandal in your edit summary. I refer you to WP:NPA. Sweet6970 (talk) 22:21, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

As a reasonably experienced editor, you should know better than to throw around unfounded WP:ASPERSIONS, and know that regular maintenance tools such as RedWarn are tools used by hundreds of editors to simplify moderation, both to counter vandalism, but also for many non-vandalism related tasks such as regular undos that can automatically cite relevant policies and maintenance templates. Usage of tools does not constitute personal attacks and my edit summary contained no mention of vandalism anywhere.
In turn, your own accusation here runs afoul of WP:AGF, so I ask you to please stop WP:HOUNDING me. Raladic (talk) 23:13, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Title change

Can you help me with List of Japanese Academy Award winners and nominees to List of Japanese Emmy, Grammy, Academy, and Tony Award winners and nominees? I already did the major improvements with my article (Filipino). GeniusTaker (talk) 05:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @GeniusTaker - please note that it looks like you copied content from List of Japanese Grammy Award winners and nominees without properly attributing this change or holding a WP:MERGE discussion beforehand whether the two articles should be merged or not.
I have reverted your change for now, so please follow the guidelines at merge first, so the community can have a discussion on whether we should merge these articles or keep them separate (which is likely preferred), as keeping them separate may be more WP:PRECISE for what people are searching for, than a combined article would be. Raladic (talk) 21:49, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

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Rename a new title with this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees. GeniusTaker (talk) 15:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Heya @GeniusTaker, firstly you should really have made this discussion on the talk page of the article in question, secondly, I don't quite understand what you mean. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 15:23, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
I mean I want you to rename or move the article with that: List of Korean Academy Award winners and nominees → List of South Korean Academy Award winners and nominees – Move from Korean to South Korean to fit in like the Oscar submission did. GeniusTaker (talk) 15:26, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
You started the move discussion on the talk page there, you have to wait for consensus of people interested in the article to voice their support or opposition and following the discussion there, if a consensus is reached, then a move can be made. Raladic (talk) 15:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Oh right. Sorry that I already started the discussion XD. GeniusTaker (talk) 15:30, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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So...have fun with that one

I'm literally in the process of getting ready for bed, but noticed this reversion happened just now. No idea what that's about, but I presume you got tied up with some bigoted troll somewhere. I'd advise going to WP:ANI with that one. And probably have that edit (because of the edit summary) oversighted. SilverserenC 03:05, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note last night @Silver seren, I requested help from admins to RD it and the user has been blocked. Raladic (talk) 16:37, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Could you give details of why you deleted my edit on Transgender health

You posted on my page:

  • "Your recent edit to Transgender health care seemed less than neutral and has been removed.

But gave no details as to why - so in answer to you offer to give details -yes I would be very grateful to hear them. The reason you gave in the page Talk seems unfounded:

  • "This page is not here to try to whitewash conversion therapy, which is widely condemned worldwide."

Please do give your reasons in the Talk for Transgender Health. ThxPeckedagain (talk) 22:52, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

The reasons are, as the edit summary indicated, violations of neutral POV. A lot of the changes, such as your edit-warring change to the lead to try to make things appear more controversial than they are, violate our neutrality of view. While the UK has taken a large backstep in transgender health care, this has not been universally observed in the rest of the world, so it is WP:UNDUE to ram the Uk's decision into every transgender article on Wikipedia to do so. You've also removed large amounts of well sourced information without consensus to do so.
As for the other one on Transgender health care trying to whitewash Conversion therapy#Gender exploratory therapy - it is undue for the article on Transgender health care in the way you added it, again violating NPOV (and UNDUE in this case) - it is instead already discussed at length at Conversion therapy in the appropriate context of what it is, so at best, a link to there may be added, but even that is questionable, as the practice of conversion therapy is not generally considered health care. Raladic (talk) 23:01, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hi @Goodtiming8871,
Yes, you made more than one content revert between your 3 edits here: [1], [2], [3] content additions, after the content was reverted by one user, you re-added removed content again a second time, thus you made one reversion too many, which runs afoul of the WP:1RR restriction that is placed on the article (as warned when you click the edit button on the page and the big red banner on that article talk page).
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the RFC talk page update.

Hello Raladic, Please note that I did below - per WP:TPG and WP:TALK#REVISE When there is a reply to specific content that was previously posted, it was recognized that when the content is changed to clarify the specific content, even if the existing content is deleted, the deletion should be marked and the content should be marked as revised. Goodtiming8871 (talk) 05:02, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

If you're revising something, the best practice is to strike it and place the new content next to it, so it's clear what was revised without having to check the actual history.
Otherwise it can appear that replies already made to a changed content could be misconstrued.
Since this change of the text was very far ranging, it was better to re-instate it and if need be, you should close the thread and start a new one if you truly think a new attempt has more chance, though it looks based on the response to it, that the community consensus is strongly against your proposal. Raladic (talk) 14:57, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

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RMTR at Hawk tuah

I’m not sure 100% what happened, but it looks like you and Estar8806 tried to complete the move at the exact same time and it looks somehow everything ended up at the exact same place it was before. If possible, can you please re-move the page to the correct title per the discussion (Hawk Tuah → Hawk tuah)? Thank you both for your help. cyberdog958Talk 05:58, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Lol it appears indeed that happened. I'll go fix it, thanks for catching it. Raladic (talk) 05:59, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Huh, never seen that happen before. Great catch lol estar8806 (talk) ★ 06:03, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Should be fixed now @Cyberdog958.
It looks like both @Estar8806 and I had the pageswap script page loaded at the same time and somehow it just back-to-back swapped them forward and then back :D Raladic (talk) 06:05, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
I figured it was something to do with a “pressed the button at the same time” type of situation. Thank you both for your fast resolution. cyberdog958Talk 06:18, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

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Diff [4]. Just to let you know, your close is not being contested according to them, though they did say "The last article move proposal had more "Support" than "Oppose" !votes, and substantial arguments behind them". Rather, they have opted to immediately start a brand new RM. This time, to change the wording of the suggested title to "Private gun sales (United States)" which they claim is different from "Private sale of firearms in the United States". I am required to AGF, but this doesn't make much sense to me. Cheers. DN (talk) 09:52, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. As the editor who opened the new RM should be aware, we edit Wikipedia based on WP:CONSENSUS, not counting of WP:!VOTEs and in my review of the discussion I carefully weighted the responses of all editors in the discussion in line with our policies on article titles and the supporting data presented by editors in the course of the discussion based on the usage of the titles in reliable sources.
As I have closed this RM, I cannot be involved in the new RM and it will be up to another uninvolved closer to consider the new RM, but they will likely look at the prior RM for reference. Raladic (talk) 16:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate the help. I am concerned that they will just keep opening RM's until they get a name change. Is that normal? Cheers. DN (talk) 20:11, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
If that happened, that may be considered disruptive editing, so if you’re concerned about that you could raise it at WP:ANI to seek input from the wider community or an uninvolved admin. Raladic (talk) 20:24, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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