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Hi! I reverted your edits at Elliot Rodger because it was mostly unsourced and not up to standards. Right now, the page on the Isla Vista killings has enough information about Rodger. If you want to work on a standalone page, improving the draft already at Draft:Elliot Rodger might be a good place to start. Thank you! BuySomeApples ( talk) 11:51, 22 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Thank you. That’s nice to hear. MountainDew20 ( talk) 12:11, 22 December 2023 (UTC) reply

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The article 2023 Belgorod incident has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

does not merir own article

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It does merit its own article because if it has been perpetrated by Ukraine then it documents a retaliatory attack perpetrated by Ukraine directly on Russian soil, something that has not happened, to my knowledge at least, in the war until now (at least not on this scale), unless you count this, and this, both of which happened in Crimea, which is recognized by most countries as being part of Ukraine. MountainDew20 ( talk) 00:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC) reply

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The article Let Go (KMFDM album) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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I created it because it was the only album by the band that didn’t have an article. MountainDew20 ( talk) 20:47, 8 February 2024 (UTC) reply

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The article Sterling, Virginia house explosion has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

dubious notability

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The RM request has been reverted, please read WP:ARBECR. The need for 500 edits was as well explained above in "Introduction to contentious topics". Selfstudier ( talk) 22:50, 25 February 2024 (UTC) reply

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Please self-revert 22:30, 2 March 2024 and 22:36, 2 March 2024.

To respond to your edit summary It was a massacre regardless of whether or not Israel was responsible, it was a tragedy where a lot of people died, but that doesn't make it a massacre - and the majority of sources are declining to characterize it as a massacre. BilledMammal ( talk) 22:52, 2 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thank you for partially self-reverting; however, you still need to remove the claim that "the statements were conflicting". BilledMammal ( talk) 23:22, 2 March 2024 (UTC) reply

It appears someone else has. MountainDew20 ( talk) 23:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Ignore that, read wrong part. MountainDew20 ( talk) 23:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted a change you made to Lance Robertson. In this edit, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. We can't guess at birth dates based on events in their life. Please be aware that many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them of reliable. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. Fan sites and blogs are self-published and have no editorial control. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases or genealogical websites (which are also typically user-generated, as above). This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we often have to either go without this information or wait until a source like The New York Times or the BBC publishes an interview that includes a birth date. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 02:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I am sorry. I made an assumption and, in hindsight, that was wrong and I should have known better. MountainDew20 ( talk) 03:45, 8 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that I closed your requested move, please don't feel put off by the discussion, it was not personal. I appreciate your BOLD opening of the discussion.  Thanks Geardona ( talk to me?) 06:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC) reply