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TheRingess 06:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prodding

Hey Wwallacee: just a note, prodding and AfD'ing are two different procedures. When you prod an article, you don't need to add it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. -SpuriousQ 00:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spina Bifida

Thanks for the cleanup and contribution to Spina Bifida its been needing an overhaul for a while. -- Stbalbach 16:08, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Benzodiazepine

I've reverted your edit to Benzodiazepine since it quoted too much copyright material. In addition, benzo.co.uk does not count as a reliable source. I see that you also added your own text, which appeared to be better sourced. You can retrieve that text from the history of the article. Please can you have another go at improving the history of benzos.

Wrt to the history section in other benzo pages, I think there is a lot of merit in keeping a short drug-specific history in each page. It doesn't really matter if this repeats stuff on the main benzo page. You can use

at the top of the history section to indicate where the fuller story is. Regards, Colin°^Talk 23:45, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm

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April 2008

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Sexual intercourse

While I am not hugely against your changes, I am against some of them, and big changes like that should be discussed on the article's talk page first before acted upon. The lead was carefully written by myself and Tallard due to wanting it to flow well, as well as wanting it to be neutral and as honest as it can be about some things (such as the history of sexual intercourse and its common/original definition followed by how the definition has expanded). I do not mind your first tweaks to the lead...and left those in. But your second change to the lead and other parts of the article is what I feel needs discussion, such as adding a third image to the lead.

The other changes? Well, I also take issue with your dividing up the Health benefits section into all these small or tiny subsections. I do not feel that such division is needed. If this article were edited often, especially by experienced editors adding in well-sourced material, I would be more positive about it, since I would feel that it would be filled in soon enough (as opposed to remaining in small or tiny subsections for a very long time).

I will take this to the Sexual intercourse talk page where I welcome you to weigh in about changes you would like to this article.Flyer22 (talk) 01:29, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As I stated on the talk page, I did not notice you added reputable scientific sources into the article; I apologize for reverting that. For everything else I recently stated, check the talk page (of course). Flyer22 (talk) 23:51, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While sources are always welcome, do note it is rarely necessary or wise to add the entire abstract. If you feel the study needs clarification, you should word it yourself and it should usually be brief. Also it's rarely necessary to describe what else the author of the study has done Nil Einne (talk) 14:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Spero News

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I assure you that I didn't delete the article because of any bias toward or against the subject of the article: I'm only biassed in favor of deletion of articles that pass our speedy deletion criteria. I'm happy to see articles on Catholic subjects; in the last few months, I've written ten different articles about Catholic churches that I've gotten highlighted on the Main Page, and I'm currently trying to get two more up there. As for the article — it didn't explain why Spero News was important enough to have an encyclopedia article. I'll be happy to restore a copy if you'd like to work on it more; read the "userfy" link in the comment above to see how this works. Nyttend (talk) 14:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My only reason for bringing up the Catholic churches was to answer your charge of an anti-Catholic COI; I didn't mean to make it sound as if I was explaining everything that way. However, the article itself is simply too stubby: there's no demonstration that it's an important subject. I believe you when you say that it is — consequently, I've restored it and moved it to User:Wwallacee/Spero News — however, please don't move it back into mainspace until you've demonstrated its importance (and if possible) its notability. Sorry for the simplistic comment above about userfying; I didn't realise that you'd been around for quite a while, and I thought that you were a newbie. Nyttend (talk) 20:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

However, the sources that you've added are mostly blogs, which we don't generally consider reliable sources. Unreliable sources and self-published sources aren't useful for proving notability, and you've not yet added any sources to the article that aren't either blogs or published by Spero News itself. By the way, simply being used as a reference lots of times doesn't guarantee notability, since we need coverage about the news source rather than coverage by it for notability reasons. Nyttend (talk) 14:06, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Nyttend, not much more to add - does not meet WP:GNG and would not expect it to make it through a WP:AFD. Codf1977 (talk) 14:16, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I still do not think it is notable, the fact that is ref'ed in other WP articles may be a valid point, however, your claim that it is used in "The New York Times and other news outlets" needs to be sourced and you need to remove a peacock term. I have tagged the user page to help (normally I would just fix the Peacock term but as this is in your user space it's up to you.) - if you wish to revert my edit that is up to you, however as it stands I think the page would be quickly nominated for deletion again.

Point of order : please read No personal attacks - I consider being accused of censoring anything to be very close to that.Codf1977 (talk) 11:44, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you feel so strongly, then fix the two issues above and then ask the deleting admin (Nyttend) if he is happy for it to be be moved back (see comment above) - I still don't think it is a notable subject, however I will cut it some slack and won't nominate it for Speedy delete, however if after a week I still feel it does not meet the WP:GNG, then I will nominate it under WP:AfD. Codf1977 (talk) 10:13, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Heidegger and Nazism

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would you be ready to translate into english this text you quoted on the talkpage of Heidegger and nazism? your comment sounds interesting. I know it's tough, but it would be so usefull ! http://parolesdesjours.free.fr/mecanique.pdf

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Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

Dear Wwallacee,

I`m not sure if you added to the Sheehy Skeffington entry that Bowen-Colthurst`s obit did not mention the Easter Rising. If it was you, I don`t think that the Irish Times article by Dara Redmond was the source. I think it may have been A Terrible Duty by Bryan Bacon. Thanks. CanK9 (talk) 04:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Wwallacee,

In the article on Francis S. S., there is a sentence describing the Simon Royal Commission as the 'principal source of facts about the events leading to the death of Sheehy Skeffington.' I thought this might be a little misleading because of some shortcomings with the Commission, so I added two caveats to the sentence on the Commission's report. I wrote that the formal terms of reference of the Commission severely restricted its scope and that much of the evidence of the Commission's formal hearings, though fully reported in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent, was omitted from the Commission's report.

A few days later, a contributor named 'Apollo the Logician' deleted my cautionary notes, unfortunately without giving any reason. I sent a more detailed explanation of my concerns about the Commission's report to Apollo the Logician's 'Talk' page. I said that the Commission limited itself solely to matters directly concerned with the deaths of Skeffington, Dickson and MacIntyre and only for the period between the arrest of Skeffington and the raids on his house. I also pointed out that, more critically, the Commission did not allow any evidence on Colthurst's mental state at the time of the murders. As an example of the fuller, more accurate reporting by the newspapers, I mentioned Simon's disallowing Healy's attempt to read Colthurst's April 26 report on the shooting of O'Carroll. Finally, I asked 'Apollo' if he would give reasons for his deletion.

In response, 'Apollo' eliminated all the entries on his 'Talk' page including my comments and query.

I thought you might be interested in this matter because you appear to be the author of the original sentence on the Simon Commission. (As far as I can tell, the sentence first crops up in the extensive revision of the Sheehy Skeffington article you undertook in March 2016.)

So, may I ask how do you feel about the caveats I added on May 13? Should they be reinstated or are you comfortable with your original statement?

I look forward to hearing your views. Thanks.CanK9 (talk) 17:38, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CanK, what you describe sounds like behavior typical of a certain highly political but loutish element in the Irish Wikipedia editing force. I well remember such behavior from the controversies surrounding Scolaire. My guess is that Apollo the Logician is trying to carry out a headstrong but incredibly subtle political edit for which the motivation eludes me. I will look into this further. -Wwallacee (talk) 09:52, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK, CanK, I've looked at Apollo the Logician's contributions and they back up what I just said. Most of his edits have to do with controversial Irish topics, related to the IRA; and on his talk page, prior to the recent blanking, is the mention: <<Its mostly your edit warring to the limit that I dislike, to add worthless pov minor detail - so unworthy of a wp:npov contributor. Govindaharihari (talk) 19:33, 8 May 2017 (UTC)>>. I'm going to go ahead and put your sentence back in again. - Wwallacee (talk) 10:13, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, Wwallacee, there never was any "controversy surrounding Scolaire", apart from your rush of blood to the head when I made a couple of innocuous edits to two of "your" articles (which I never touched again, by the way). In the two lengthy ANI threads that followed your meltdown, every one of the responses from neutral editors said that my editing was and always had been unproblematic. Labelling me along with Apollo The Logician as a "highly political but loutish element" is a personal attack. Please withdraw it and please do not mention my name again, anywhere, ever. Scolaire (talk) 10:39, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2016

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No grounds for unblock provided. Scolaire's evaluation below is correct. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 13:31, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I was involved in a controversy posted on the Administrators' noticeboard. I was asked by administrators to provide evidence of my contention that user Scolaire had been making disruptive edits. I supplied such evidence, including evidence of accusations of disruptive editing made by other users against Scolaire. However, with no administrators yet having commented on my evidence, I was blocked by user JzG, who also immediately closed the Administrators' Noticeboard discussion. JzG says he blocked my own account due to disruptive editing, but I contest this. The edit in question, was a post to another editor's Talk page in order to solicit corroborating evidence for my contention about user Scolaire. I had been requested by several administators to supply such evidence. I believe that my account should be unblocked and more importantly that the relevant Administator's noticeboard discussion should be unblocked so as to allow open discussion of what has happened. I request that administrators other than JzG review this case. - Wwallacee (talk) 08:06, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

N.B. User JzG signs his name "Guy", but this signature links to a Talk page for a user JzG; however there appears to be no user JzG as such - when I attempt to access that user page I find the message: "This page has been deleted", etc. But there is nonetheless a Talk page for user JzG, which can be found here. -Wwallacee (talk) 08:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In point of fact you were asked for diffs but did not provide them, you provided links to articles in which independent admins (including me) saw no evidence of any problem with Scolaire's edits. It looks very much as if you still don't get it - for several values of it, since it is not that hard to work out what's going on with my user and talk pages, my sig links to my talk page after all. I recommend you read WP:NOTTHEM. Guy (Help!) 08:32, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why, but you still don't know what's going on. The links you posted here were not "evidence of accusations of disruptive editing made by other users against me", they linked to robust talk page discussions of the kind you should have engaged in instead of calling me an "a-hole" and throwing out accusations of "personal censorship" and "political bias". The diff to Partition of Ireland was of the kind that Guy described as "the important and necessary job of rolling back" unsourced POV content added by anonymous editors, except in this case the anonymous editor was the sockpuppet of a notorious banned editor. The good people at ANI rightly ignored this "evidence". The fact is you have no case against me. Several people at ANI looked at my edits when you first asked them to and confirmed that they were all good edits. You haven't explained what form this "disruptive editing" takes: it was explained to you right at the start that removal of content is a perfectly valid edit. You haven't ever attempted to articulate what my "political bias" is, presumably because after trawling through months of my edits you have failed to find any pattern suggestive of bias. There is no justification whatever for continuing "to solicit corroborating evidence for your contention about me". It constitutes harassment. It is very upsetting to me and disruptive to the project. If you don't say now that you are going to call off this destructive campaign, I will have to ask the admins to extend your block, because I don't feel safe editing Wikipedia with this hanging over me. Scolaire (talk) 09:07, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I repeat my request that administrators other than JzG (aka Guy) review this case. User Scolaire is not an administrator. Before I can reply to the above comments, the Administrators' noticeboard discussion will need to be reopened. That is where the above comments belong, and where they can be properly contextualized and replied to. Scolaire's overemotional claim to "feeling unsafe" should not be allowed to shut down a valid complaint against him. -Wwallacee (talk) 12:40, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is no complaint against me. There was a complaint against you at ANI. It was upheld. You were blocked (not on foot of the original complaint but because you failed to stop when you were advised to) and the thread was closed. It's not going to be reopened so as to let you resume your harassment of me. There will be an admin along in due course to review your unblock request, and he or she will see that you have learned nothing from this experience and that you intend to continue your disruption. Scolaire (talk) 13:18, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't review the case, I merely commented in response to your request. Admins don't review their own blocks. You keep making these schoolboy errors, are you this careless with content? Guy (Help!) 14:08, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The only people being schoolboyish right now are the two of you. Scolaire, your inability to handle criticism, and your combative shutting down of critics, both myself and others, is neither democratic nor in the best interest of Wikipedia. And JzG, shame on you for your lack of impartiality as an administrator. -Wwallacee (talk) 16:05, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Removing egregious personalisation of a dispute spammed across multiple pages is not shutting down critics, it's controlling abuse. Wikipedia is not a democracy, it's a cluocracy. I advise you to urgently invest time in acquiring one. Guy (Help!) 23:05, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Whilst I have often disagreed with Scolaire on many topics for years on Wikipedia I have to say I find Wwallacee's claims to be baffling and not characteristic of Scolaire. Mabuska ^(talk) 22:14, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. To anybody reading this after April 2016

After the block on my User account expired, I opened an incident report against Scolaire on the Administrator's Noticeboard, in which I provided extensive examples of Scolaire's disruptive and coercive behavior. The archive for that report can be found here or here. -- Wwallacee (talk) 14:47, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Wwallacee, Thank you for your thoughtful and conscientious editing of articles on Irish history.CanK9 (talk) 23:00, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Error in date

My apologies. I made a mistake in a March 31 Talk entry on Francis Sheehy Skeffington.

The 1965 Penticton Herald obituary of Bowen-Colthurst says he had lived in Naramata for 17 years so he would have presumably moved from Sooke to Naramata in 1948, not 1942. So you may want to amend Reference #36 in the article accordingly.CanK9 (talk) 04:34, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Thank you. - Wwallacee (talk) 23:05, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bowen-Colthurst

I have just finished James Taylor's book Guilty but Insane-J C Bowen-Colthurst- Villain or Victim. It has a wealth of detail and I think it is very even-handed. Essential reading for anyone interested in Colthurst and his times. A really fine work.CanK9 (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the recommendation CanK. - Wwallacee (talk) 23:07, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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In case you missed it, I posted here asking you to withdraw your personal attacks on me, and not to talk about me in future. Scolaire (talk) 11:25, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding repeated personal attacks. The thread is Wwallacee continuing unprovoked personal attacks. --Scolaire (talk) 13:50, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Wwallacee, I warned you yesterday to drop the stick about your accusations against User:Scolaire. You didn't, but repeated the same – completely baseless – accuasations against him several times more. I told you you'd be blocked if you continued, so now you are blocked. One week. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:31, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

In his post to AN/I, the blocking administrator, Future Perfect at Sunrise, gave as his reason the following: "I gave Wwallacee a final warning to drop the stick yesterday [1], but he instead chose to repeat the same accusations [2][3]." Moreover, in his note to me on this page explaining the block, Future Perfect characterized my accusations as "completely baseless". I appeal to other administrators to review the above account, and therefore the block. The "accusations" I am blocked for are found in replies I made on ANI to queries by other editors, who asked for evidence of my complaint against user Scolaire. In my replies, I gave supporting evidence and reiterated my arguments. My accusations were not completely baseless, and in fact (as my evidence shows) Scolaire has a long past history of harassing other editors. I believe that Scolaire's attempt to have me shut down over a trifle, was an example of this pattern of behavior. Scolaire's act against me made me feel threatened, and I felt it was grounds for a complaint against him for harassment, which I duly made. To back up my complaint I provided supporting evidence from Scolaire's past history with other users. I don't see how this can be considered objectionable. ANI exists to field complaints, and an accusation against another editor, especially when backed up by evidence, should not be construed as a "personal attack", whereas this is what Future Perfect seems to be blocking me for. Moreover, in his "final warning to drop the stick", Future Perfect wrote: "I have seen no sign at all that Scolaire did anything wrong here, but quite a few signs that you, Wwallacee, did things wrong. You provoked this whole mess, for no tangible reason whatsoever." This statement shows that Future Perfect misunderstood the history of the incident, because the "mess" was not provoked by me but by user Scolaire. Scolaire initiated a complaint on ANI where he asked for me to be indefinitely blocked, over a comment I made on my own talk page, addressed to another editor, and where Scolaire's name was mentioned only indirectly - as a way of recalling a whole complex of past events. As user Power~enwiki rightly commented on ANI, "This complaint [by Scolaire] appears to be resulting from an edit by User:Wwallacee on his own talk page. I think User:Scolaire probably needs tougher skin. [...] This has already been on ANI according to the complaint, and the only new edits discussed are on WWallacee's talk page."

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