User talk:Voiceofreason01

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Talk page postings

Just a friendly suggestion - can you please post new talk page items at the bottom of the page, and sign them with four tildes rather than copying an old signature? Thanks! BTW, thanks for your contributions! Jminthorne (talk) 15:03, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of PROD from LG KG290

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WP:Fringe

Are you aware of this notice board? You might, for instance, want to ask others there to take a look at Unexplained human mutilation, Dougweller (talk) 18:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Moon landing

I've been applauding your work on the Moon landing article, and deleted a previous comment which was actually meant for another editor, which got pasted onto your talk page by mistake. Apologies for that. Best regards. --OliverTwisted ^(Talk)(Stuff) 03:25, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some advice on moving pages

When you are changing page titles, as you did with Outline of recreational number theory->List of recreational number theory topics, it is better to use Wikipedia's page move utility rather than doing a cut-and-paste move. Reasons are:

Page move moves the talk page along with the main page. ~~At the moment,~~ Until it was fixed by User:Verbal, Talk:List of recreational number theory topics redirected back to Talk:Outline of recreational number theory !
Page move moves the edit history of the page and its talk page.
Page move automatically adds the new page name to the watch lists of editors who were watching the old page.

See Help:Moving a page for instructions. Gandalf61 (talk) 13:03, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, thanks for the help. Voiceofreason01 (talk) 16:09, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POV, nPOV, NPOV, nNPOV

Hi, I've noticed that a few times you've said npov (for neutral POV) when I think you mean nNPOV (non-NPOV, or just POV). Just a heads up! Verbal chat 16:25, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was using "npov" as shorthand for "npov problems", if this is confusing I will try to be more specific in future edits. Voiceofreason01 (talk) 19:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recent developments

While looking for items that needed following up on on the Sustainability talk page, I noticed a couple of recent posts by you. The first one [2] was a masterpiece of wikietiquette, IMO. You made your points in the form of observations; clearly and fairly. I especially liked your reference to the "Beware of the tigers" essay. By doing this you gave some feedback in a way that was both humourous and compassionate, IMO. I hadn't seen that essay, but it is spot on.

The more recent post by you wasn't quite as neutral, but I understand your frustration. I would like to pursue your concerns as I think that they are important for the GA assessment. One of the things I was going to do before things went sideways was get the opinion of a peer reviewer about the lead. I still intend to do that. Now things are settling down a bit (with Skip having agreed to stay away from the article for awhile, AdenR warned about edit warring, and the article protected) so we can get back to it. I hope that you will continue editing on the Sustainability page. We need good editors there. Sunray (talk) 02:51, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Web Bot Edits

Thanks for you feedback regarding my edits of the Web Bot entry. As you have pointed out, I am new again to Wikipedia. I will review the documents you suggested before making further edits. Mcmarturano (talk) 00:51, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Larson photo

Exactly how does this photo look ok? It's a picture of some sort of plastic mannequin. --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 19:24, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have you seen any of his work? This image is perfect and from the cover on one of his books with essentially the same caption(although that might be considered a primary source and therefore not satisfy notability requirements). Besides, he's retired and the value to the article of a recent photograph is very small. Voiceofreason01 (talk) 19:33, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the photo was taken from one of his books. It's an obvious joke, as Gary Larson is not a plastic mannequin. So you think it's appropriate to have a joke photo in the article which is clearly not him? --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 19:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have copied this conversation and replied on the article talk page here since that is the more appropriate place to be discussing this. Voiceofreason01 (talk) 20:02, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Xyzzyplugh you should have notified me before posting here and asking for semiprotection. You seem to be a very deletionist editor and a quick glance at your edit history and Talk suggest you've had issues with other editors in the past because you are too quick to delete rather than revise content. In the future please, at least, make a post to the article talk page when making significant changes to an article or when you go to an admin for assistance. I suggest you review wp:SILVERLOCK, wp:civil and generally review wp:FIVE. Voiceofreason01 (talk) 21:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Your perspective would be valued

Hi there. I would appreciate it if you could visit Talk:Muhammad. The article, Muhammad, has changed in a significant way since it originally passed WP:GA several years ago. It now states in the opening paragraph that Mohammad is the Founder of Islam and has relegated to a note at the end of the article that Muslims, themselves don't believe this. I have started a discussion on the talk page concerning this and would value your input. Thanks so much. Veritycheck (talk) 21:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Bad sex in literature listed at Redirects for discussion

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