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Proposed deletion of Human Race (Three Days Grace song)

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Recent edit to 1999 Kids' Choice Awards

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June 2017

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April 2018

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July 2018

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Edit revert on Kyle Kulinski

Just a note that I reverted your edit on Kyle Kulinski. Please ensure that you provide a source for additions on biographies of living persons; see WP:BLP. Thanks, Kevin12 xd 17:23, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Spider-Man scientist category

Hello, regarding the Fictional scientists category on the Spider-Man article, I removed the category because the subcategory Category:Marvel Comics scientists is already present, and it is always preferable to use subcategories for a topic as opposed to broader main categories. Therefore, I felt it was necessary to remove Category:Fictional scientists from the article.The Editor 155 (talk) 12:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't add that section? Are you referencing an edit I made? Shamus248 (talk) 16:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I can see from the page history that you reinserted Category:Fictional scientists to the Spider-Man article after I removed it yesterday, so I explained my rationale for removing it in the first place.The Editor 155 (talk) 18:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, I reverted a previous edit of mine that another user had previously undone, which I guess reinserted the fictional scientists category from a prior edit I didn't do myself. Shamus248 (talk) 06:19, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for clarifying. I will now remove the Fictional scientists category from the page.

February 2023

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Ummm.....what did i do? Shamus248 (talk) 04:13, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

April 2023

Hey. I've noticed that you kept removing my change to the main photo for the NSYNC article. I've only been changing it because I thought an actual group photo would look better than a collage of the members. I know what I missed the first time and I thought I corrected it with adding the photo author and license, but I guess I missed something. If you could tell me what I missed, I would be willing to fix my mistake and properly replace the photo. Hulkeroni (talk) 11:24, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you can replace the photo, I strongly encourage you to do so. Whenever a collage of the members or the pic of them at the 2013 VMAs gets removed from the info box, I try to undo those edits. The "Image Removal Bot" deleted the 2013 VMA pic so I can't undo that. My edits had nothing to do with your specific edits, I sadly can't control what users or bots delete pics, nor do I know what compels them to do so. I think it's silly that a page of an artist that notable can't have a pic in their infobox without it being a problem. Again, my edits had nothing to do with yours, just merely trying to undo edits by other users/bots that I thought should be undone. Thanks for your time. Shamus248 (talk) 05:37, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I completely understand then. I just assumed it was you because it was under your name when I checked the history, so I thought it was you the whole time. I actually never heard of the Image Removal Bot until you brought it up, so thanks for informing me about that. And looking back, it makes sense that it was a bot this whole time. The only problem now is trying to figure out how to replace it with ensuring that the bot won't act up. If you have any ideas, let me know so I could try to implement them. Thanks again. Hulkeroni (talk) 01:06, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I wish I had some ideas. The collage of the 5 members is up for now. Hopefully you or someone can upload a group photo without it being a problem. Shamus248 (talk) 19:53, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Onision article

Hello. Sorry, but I've had to remove a lot of content you've added to Onision. Per WP:BLP please be very, very careful when citing blogs, youtube videos, tweets etc. for articles on living (or recently deceased) people. Please also be very cautious when citing court documents, per WP:BLPPRIMARY. Using these primary sources to form conclusions about a person's activities is a form of original research (WP:OR) which Wikipedia doesn't publish. Info in articles should summarize reliable sources (WP:RS) which will mainly be independent sources (WP:IS).

Again, sorry. If I had noticed sooner I would've said something sooner and saved you a lot of work. Grayfell (talk) 06:16, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Admittedly, I am no fan of the subject in question, though my various edits were with the intention to catalog what I believe to be pertinent information. With that being said, is it possible for some of the content to be restored, specifically the court documents and the content therein? I believe it to be very pertinent to the subject. It probably looked like I had labored to put all of that on there, but I honestly didn't mind. Again, it was with the purpose of cataloging things that could get deleted w/o being archived, etc. Let me know if anything can be restored. Thanks for your time. Shamus248 (talk) 06:22, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I sympathize. Citing court documents often leads to disputes in situations like these. From past experience, my understanding is that the legal action or lawsuit first needs to be supported by an independent source. For any detail not in a a reliable, independent source, there needs to be a clear reason to dip into court documents. Unambiguously important details which the independent source left out for some reason can be added with a court document, for example. I don't really see that here, but I could easily be missing something. The specific details of the accusations will probably need an IS which will also hopefully provide some context. I would accept that a verdict would be slightly easier to summarize than a plaintiff's accusations, but it would still be much, much better to use an independent source even then.

Additionally, Rolling Stone's reputation as a reliable sources is complicated per WP:ROLLINGSTONECULTURE/WP:ROLLINGSTONEPOLITICS, so using that as the IS starts off on shaky ground.

Some of these incidents are recent enough that reliable sources could be in the works, but that' just a guess. Grayfell (talk) 06:42, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at my most recent (and what will be my last for a while if not for good) edit and tell me if that looks okay. I avoided court docs or anything of that sort, and kept it succinct, but again put in what I believed to be important info. Sorry for any trouble. I know I probably looked like a frothing NPC with too much time on his hands. Again, I won't pretend I'm impartial when it comes to Onision, and to be honest I was motivated by a view (in my estimation at least) that his Wikipedia page was generally too sanitized in relation to the allegations made against him, and wanted to catalog them in more explicit detail. Shamus248 (talk) 07:02, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Spider-Man plot

Hello! I appreciate that you've been giving attention to the Spider-Man page, and have been making good-faith edits. However, next time you revert a large amount of content, please provide a more clear and detailed edit summary. It's not currently clear to me what your concerns are with my edits. Did you find it problematic that I reduced the overall length of the plot summary?

There are several grammatical issues in the current version, but I don't want to edit them until we can have a friendly conversation. Thanks! Wafflewombat (talk) 21:27, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any *issues* with your edits or anyone else's edits. I just thought the plot summary was solid as it was. Shamus248 (talk) 04:01, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Would you like me to run the grammatical issues by you before attempting to fix them, or can I go ahead and make edits for you to review? Wafflewombat (talk) 04:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

go ahead Shamus248 (talk) 04:08, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

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"Eponymous" album

Read WP:TITULAR. If the artist's name and the album title are in the same sentence, it's redundant and very poor writing to add "eponymous". Eponymous means "named for". So it's absurd to say "Rascal Flatts is the album named for Rascal Flatts by Rascal Flatts". It's sufficient just to say "Rascal Flatts is an album by Linda Ronstadt". We can easily see that the artist's name and album title are the same. Please stop. It's just more unnecessary clean up for others to do. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 16:10, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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