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Reverted edits to National Journal page

Hello K6ka,

I saw this morning that you reverted edits that I made to National Journal's wikipedia page. Can you please share the parts of my update that you felt were not neutral?

Thank you,

CRicks14 CRicks14 (talk) 13:33, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

According to this edit, the changes you made aren't introducing the topic to readers. When we start an article on Misplaced Pages, we begin with "'This thing' is a 'blah blah blah'", and we refrain from using a promotional tone and Weasel words. "For over 40 years, 'this thing' has been..." is not the way we start an article here. The tone we use in articles do not give readers ideas on which side to take, which side was correct, and which side was wrong. We also write articles in our own words, and your edits appeared to have been copied directly from another source. I noticed that you replaced a lot of sourced content with unsourced material - keep in mind that all materials need to be supported by a reliable source - if you need help with citations, check out WP:CITE. Also, while we do encourage editors to be Bold, sometimes an editor will disagree, revert your edit, and then ask you to discuss it on the article talk page. Instead of reverting them again, sort the issue out and discuss it with other editors. Your changes appear to be pretty questionable, so I would probably ask for advice over at the Teahouse. BTW, if you need help with Misplaced Pages, you can check out our Introduction to Misplaced Pages, and if you have any questions, the Teahouse is staffed by friendly, experienced editors that can help you out. If you have any more questions, you can check out the links I provided, ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me again on this page. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 14:00, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Jim Lokay

AWWW...But Jim is so dreamy!!!199.255.55.2 (talk) 19:00, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the clean up of my user page vandalism. It's much appreciated. Bahooka (talk) 16:46, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

No problem. My userpage has been vandalized countless times. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 18:44, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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I think you deserve this

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for reverting all that vandalism, and thanks for updating the WikiDefcon every few hours. You're real helpful. Rtucker913 (What do you want?) 13:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello K6ka!

I randomly stumbled upon your page, and I found it quite entertaining! I was wondering though, where do you find all the user boxes? Are they all located in one area, or do you have to search for them individually?

Thanks!

JosephHawk (talk) 22:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)JosephHawk

There's an (incomplete) list of userboxes on this page. If you're really into userboxes, you can make your own and share them with other people. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 22:27, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Untitled

Thanks for letting me know about the edits you reverted on the German Cuisine page. But you have the wrong person. I did not make any changes there. Sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.167.15.163 (talk) 00:55, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

It's a bug in the software, as I have not left you any message/warnings on your talk page. It's not my fault, and neither is it yours. The bug was supposedly fixed months ago, but it apparently still persists. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 01:34, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

I got the same message. Kaiserthegreat (talk) 16:48, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive and tendentious editing, edit warring, deletion of sourced content

You might be interested in adding to this discussion. Yoninah (talk) 08:33, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Though I don't usually give this to someone who already sent me one, but I think here, I can make an exception. I admire your numerous well-thought of and customised messages of appreciation, which you have sent to keep the morale of fellow vandalism-fighters up. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 10:36, 1 May 2014 (UTC)