User talk:Ulrich von Lichtenstein

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Proposed deletion of The Baboon Waster

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The article The Baboon Waster has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Lack of notability. Google search for "Baboon Waster" brings up nine results, all of them related to a forum thread.

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Wikipedia is supposed to be a serious and accurate encyclopaedia. Your other edits are fine (and the HEMA articles on here, certainly need improving), but...
Including a highly unnotable section of a forum and including nonsensical information such as it's supposed geographical location (which is, in actuality, in a server somewhere) and claims that visitors can train there and there being equipment there... And I know that you do this, without any kind of serious intent, whatsoever. On wikipedia we are to assume good faith, yes, but not in the presence of obvious evidence to the contrary. You intentionally created a nonsensical article and your own words reveal this. What you are doing constitutes an act of intentional vandalism and trying to make a mockery of wikipedia. Having a bit of fun is all fine and dandy, but vandalism isn't.--ZarlanTheGreen (talk) 03:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the encouraging and kind messages! The criticism is fully accepted. Mea culpa!

The nonsense has been blanked. Ulrich von Lichtenstein (talk) 20:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That is great to hear. I'm glad that you have taken this so well and hope you will continue to edit :) --ZarlanTheGreen (talk) 20:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:An instructor at FightCamp.jpg

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As you know a thing or two about HEMA...

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As you are an editor who is knowledgeable about HEMA... I'd like to mention the wikipedia article Classification of swords. It's... in need of massive improvement, to put it nicely. One of the problems is that it only talks about European swords, whereas non-European swords should also be included, but there's plenty of issues just with the information concerning European swords. If you'd like to take a look at it, and maybe make a few edits ...maybe encourage some others to do the same... That would be nice.--ZarlanTheGreen (talk) 02:01, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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