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We seem to have some differences of opinion with regard to the article Guy Davenport. I know how protective one can feel about an article that one has worked on, but I hope you will take a look at my comments on that article's Talk page. I see no reason to get into an edit war over this. Deor 01:15, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on
Laurence Scott, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the
criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please
see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{
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the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Betaeleven 14:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Laurence Scott, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as articles for deletion. If you can indicate how Laurence Scott is different from the previously posted material, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template {{ hangon}} underneath the other template on the article, and also put a note on Talk:Laurence Scott saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 4 under General criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. We welcome your help in trying to improve Wikipedia, and we request you to follow these instructions. Deor 15:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Laurence Scott, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as articles for deletion. If you can indicate how Laurence Scott is different from the previously posted material, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template {{ hangon}} underneath the other template on the article, and also put a note on Talk:Laurence Scott saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 4 under General criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. We welcome your help in trying to improve Wikipedia, and we request you to follow these instructions. 216.163.255.1 16:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Laurence Scott, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as articles for deletion. If you can indicate how Laurence Scott is different from the previously posted material, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template {{ hangon}} underneath the other template on the article, and also put a note on Talk:Laurence Scott saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 4 under General criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. We welcome your help in trying to improve Wikipedia, and we request you to follow these instructions. Betaeleven 18:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Three words:
HE'S. NOT. NOTABLE.
It's ridiculous that you can't grasp this simple concept, yet you still re-create the same article after it has been reviewed by others, and deleted each time. Betaeleven 18:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
James, you amaze me. You want this article so bad, yet you did not once follow the proper procedure to save it from deletion. Not once. You didn't participate in the AFD discussion. You apparently never researched what the AFD process was. You said no one voiced their opinion on it. Well, the AFD tag was up there for five days. Anyone can participate and anyone can give their opinion. And, just because only two people "voted" doesn't mean anything. If you had researched AFD, you would have learned that it's not necessarily a popular vote, but the admins only take in consideration how the vote went. You could have also learned how you could have submitted it for a deletion review (like it is now - by someone else). You apparently didn't research WP:BIO or WP:PROF to see what makes an article notable. What did you do instead? You whined. You complained. You accused. And then you proceeded to recreate the EXACT same article four more times and were surprised each time it got deleted. Did you ever try to improve the article to make it more notable? No. You added one insignificant reference from a school's website throughout this entire time. And then, each time it when it nominated for a speedy delete, did you ever once put a [[hangon]] tag on the article to perhaps try and save it? No. Did you ever read the entire tag to see what you could do to put it up for deletion review? No. All you did was complain and yell at others for daring to nominate it for deletion. We told you why it was nominated, yet you never did anything to improve it. Yet, you managed to fill up a bunch of talk pages complaining. I laughed each time you re-created the article, because you never tried to do a damn thing about making it better. And then, you have the nerve to come back to me and yell at me again for wanting it deleted? Pull your head out and stop acting like a child. This whole issue could have probably been resolved two weeks ago, if you had taken the time to find out what was wrong with your article, what you could do to make it better, and what you could have done to save it from deletion besides yell at other users. If you had just done that once, I would have had no problem with the article staying on Wikipedia, but you were so blinded in your anger and belief that it was some personal vendetta against you or Laurence Scott, you only made yourself look more and more like a fool each time you made the article. Cheers. Betaeleven 20:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Reluctant as I am to initiate more formal procedures, I'll urge you one last time to allow other editors to contribute to Guy Davenport without interference. Repeatedly undoing the good-faith contributions of others—whether all at once or bit by bit in multiple edits, whether immediately or after a few days—in an attempt to establish complete control over the text of an article is not acceptable behavior on the part of a Wikipedia editor. Nor is failing to supply edit summaries, supplying misleading edit summaries (like this), or marking significant revisions as minor edits. Editors who persistently flout Wikipedia policies and guidelines, such as WP:OWN, WP:TE, and WP:DE, may be blocked from editing particular articles or, in egregious cases, be blocked from editing Wikipedia entirely. Deor 00:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Please stop assuming ownership of articles such as Guy Davenport. Doing so may lead to disruptive behavior such as edit wars and is a violation of policy, which may lead to a block from editing. Deor 15:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree with Deor and will join in supporting a block if you don't stop reverting other people's contributions.-- SethTisue 16:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, James, I'm following the discussion on the talk page. I understand that you don't agree with me and Deor about whether the article is overlinked, but your last revert to that page was broader than that; you threw out a bunch of other valuable changes at the same time you undid the link changes. If you disagree with specific changes, you need to revert only those specific changes, not throw the baby out with the bathwater. You say you're happy to discuss it when there are disagreements; but then when we and others have a discussion, and in the end everyone still disagrees with you, you still insist on having your way. What kind of discussion is that? -- SethTisue 17:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I think the deletion was possibly unjustified--I usually try to catch academic related deletions but I apparently missed his one, for which I apologize. Let me help you get the article into shape and survive deletion, if it is justified, for the best likely result of the Deletion review is another listing at AfD. If the career is sufficiently distinguished, it ought to be kept and it will be if presented right. If, unfortunately, it is not sufficiently distinguished, then probably it will stay deleted, no matter how well presented. If he's not notable by the usual standards here, he's not notable for WP. Let's see what can be appropriately done:
and, most important, giving some 3rd party sources. A website at a university etc. can be one, but it cannot be the only one. Book reviews are fine, or a newspaper stories. Print or web is OK, but not from a list or a blog. If there is a published discussion of his career from a journal, that would be just the thing.
But please' help your own case by not fighting with the guys at deletion review--though i can understand why you might feel considerably annoyed about this. If there is personal animus, it will become clear enough. If you all argue, you are the one who ends up looking bad, and potential friends will probably stay away. My email is enabled, by the way. DGG 20:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I haven't fought w/ anyone, DGG. Beta &al. has fought w/ me. My goal, throughout everything I've done on Wikipedia, has been to craft well-written informative sentences on interesting topics about which there is a need to write. Beta, Deor, and the other Wiki-crats are making what could've been an open, progressive, site for fascinating information into a series of less substantial, clunky articles that begin w/ puffery & continue with a kind of leaden, machine-made prose. I appreciate DGG's work on
Laurence Scott, but I don't have high hopes that he can do anything to escape the Wiki-crats. Finally, the kind of puffery required to make something "notable" is rather embarrassing. No print encyclopedia would require that.
I think that I'd rather return to my own work than try to make this better. I'll suggest to my students that they not use Wikipedia either. There's much less here than meets the eye. Someday soon, Google will start Google-pedia--if it hasn't already, and other people will do the same, and one of them will value the well-crafted. Good luck in the meantime. James Nicol 04:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
DGG, i see no e-mail address from you. I'm happy to get e-mail, because there's little point in working here. Wikipedia isn't about "style"; it's about control & domination. Ultimately, it's about how one wants to use one's time. Why should i bother fighting w/ people like Beta & Deor? I have better things to do. The wikicrats wield terms like "notability" & "style" like a club. It leads to neither better writing, more information, nor a more useful website. Good luck. If you want to continue communicating w/ me, then e-mail me ([email protected]). I sha'n't write here any longer. I hope that everyone respects my decision to pull all my writing off.
James Nicol
13:35, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Watch out for WP:3RR. If you revert the Guy Davenport page too many times, you'll be in violation of the rule and liable to be blocked from editing the page.-- SethTisue 17:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I have now reported you at WP:AN/3RR.-- SethTisue 18:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
You have been blocked for 24 hours for violating the three revert rule. You may continue editing after the block expires, but please keep in mind that continued violations of the rule could lead to longer blocks. If you find yourself at three reverts again, please use the talk page to discuss changes. Thanks. -- Wafulz 19:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Todd Palin. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. user:J aka justen ( talk) 14:40, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, James Nicol! I reverted your last 2 edits to Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution/Archive 35 here. That page is an archive and is not an active discussion. Instead, you should start a new discussion at Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Rgrds. -- Bison X ( talk) 04:31, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I've clearly explained via my edit summaries that the language you used initially for the lead in the article was biased and in violation of WP:NPOV. I reverted your edit and replaced the language with neutral wording that's stood for a substantial amount of time at the constitutional carry article, so as to specifically bring that section of the lead into compliance with WP:NPOV, yet you replace it with borderline-biased language and use political rhetoric in the summary. It makes it clear that your edits are of a biased, inflammatory nature. I've also noticed you've had a history of edit-warring with other users.
I'll be reverting your edit again. Until you can come up with a better reason and stop using politically-inflammed rhetoric to challenge what is established as being in compliance with WP:NPOV, it'll remain, and I'll pursue dispute resolution action in accordance with Wikipedia's rules if you challenge it again.
Oh, and bringing the abortion debate into an unrelated topic to justify your edits doesn't really justify them or make you look good. It really just makes you look politically biased. So, I'd appreciate it if you stopped doing that. Wikipedia isn't a political tool, it's an encyclopedia. MrThunderbolt1000T ( talk) 09:35, 25 April 2021 (UTC)