Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 19:37, 13 January 2022

Thanks for experimenting with Misplaced Pages. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. -- Longhair 15:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Misplaced Pages:

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The Misplaced Pages tutorial is a good place to start learning about Misplaced Pages. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! — Newslinger talk 23:28, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Ideological bias on Misplaced Pages. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Please note that Special:Diff/1013318767 added original research, which is not allowed in Misplaced Pages articles. — Newslinger talk 23:34, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

DS Alert

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Misplaced Pages's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Jorm (talk) 21:04, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Facebook, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 21:56, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@MrOllie: Now, why is it that almost all of the free-speech social media sites state at the very top of the posts that they are sites that are havens to racists/homophobes/degenerates, but a sourced statement about Facebook is removed and counted as disruptive?

Reverted statement: Facebook is a social media site which is popular among racists, homophobes, White supremacists, and antisemites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weagesdf (talk • contribs)

See WP:POINT. That you have a problem with one article is not a reason to vandalize some other article. - MrOllie (talk) 22:16, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@MrOllie: Why is adding a sourced fact that makes the Facebook social media wiki page similar in structure to other social media pages, such as BitChute, Gab, Minds, Parler, etc., vandalizing a page? Weagesdf (talk) 23:42, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Facebook. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Misplaced Pages's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Jorm (talk) 21:56, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Important message

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Misplaced Pages's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

—PaleoNeonate – 19:37, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

1. Finn, James. "Facebook Arabic Moderators Allow Violent Homophobic Content". Medium. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
2. Mathias, Christopher. "Study: White Supremacist Groups Are 'Thriving' On Facebook, Despite Extremist Ban". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
3. "White Supremacist Groups Are Thriving on Facebook". Tech Transparency Project.
4. Reich, Aaron. "Facebook refuses to remove antisemitic meme from platform". The Jerusalem Post.
5. Guynn, Jessica. "'Antisemitism has no place on Facebook:' Facebook Oversight Board urged to stop anti-Jewish hate speech". USA Today.
6. "Antisemitism on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in Response to Middle East Violence". ADL.