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Era changes

Although it is my personal opinion that the article should use BCE, we need to follow the guidelines at WP:ERA so I have reverted you. I wouldn't expect you to know these guidelines existed, of course. Dougweller (talk) 10:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Narendra Modi

I am unsure what axe you are trying to grind here, but you really need to read the TP archives for that page. The exact text you are removing has been discussed before, and consensus was to keep it. Jaffrelot explicitly says Modi's "development" only benefited the rich, and that education, health, and so forth (which is human development, as the phrase is used in sociological circles) has been neglected. If you do not believe me, please re-read the paper. Vanamonde93 (talk) 20:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

April 2014

Hello, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at Narendra Modi. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Misplaced Pages this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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I did 1 or 2 revert, not really 3. D4iNa4 (talk) 10:00, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

On establishing notability for books

Hi D4iNa4,

So like any other large, scholarly community, we have our own lingo here. We use the word notability here as a term of art. It does not mean that something in interesting, or important, or worthy, or even correct. All it means is that other people have written enough about the topic so that we can summarize those writings into an article.

There are a few more nuances: the writing must be independent of the topic of the article (so the author writing about her own book wouldn't count) and the writing must (usually) occur in a forum where there is third-party editorial control (newspapers and magazines are great, blogs (mostly) aren't).

For books, this means finding multiple book reviews: long articles that discuss the contents of the book and its place in the wider world. If those book reviews haven't been written, then—in the wikipedia sense of the word—the book is not notable.

All of this has been spelled out in great detail at WP:NOTABILITY, WP:RS, and WP:NBOOK. If you're going to participate at AfD, it's expected that you have read and understood those policies and essays. It's not pleasant for us to keep telling you that you don't know what you're talking about, and I expect it isn't too pleasant for you, either. Spend a few hours studying the rules of the road and things should go a lot smoother.

If you want to see how AfDs should work (at least in my opinion), take a look at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Signature in the Cell. I found three reviews of a book that was proposed for deletion, presented them in a format that allowed easy checking, and asked for feedback. One editor didn't think that was enough, so I tracked down five more reviews. I didn't bring up the fact that the book is interesting or the author is famous, or that lots of bloggers reviewed the book: while true, those aren't relevant to the issue at hand.

Anyway, most folks hit a rough patch or two when they first start editing. Spend some time with the instruction manuals and your time here will be a lot more fun.

Looking forward to working with you in the future,

Lesser Cartographies (talk) 20:16, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

I understand WP:NOTABILITY, WP:RS, and WP:NBOOK. But when you see that the books have a well over of 20,000 results, 1,000s of mentions, you can believe that they would pass the above guidelines. After all, these pages have been here for 5 years or more. It can be said that thousands of other editors would've thought about them, whether they are required to have their page in wikipedia or not. D4iNa4 (talk) 03:45, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Well, you can't find any reviews, I can't find any reviews, the original author of the article couldn't find any and none of the dozens of editors who have looked at the page in the past five years could find any. Maybe the reviews just aren't there, and google hits are a poor guide to notability. Just a thought.... Lesser Cartographies (talk) 04:33, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Notification

The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose discretionary sanctions (information on which is at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions) on any editor who is active on pages broadly related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Discretionary sanctions can be used against an editor who repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Misplaced Pages, satisfy any standard of behavior, or follow any normal editorial process. If you continue to misconduct yourself on pages relating to this topic, you may be placed under sanctions, which can include blocks, a revert limitation, or an article ban. The Committee's full decision can be read at the "Final decision" section of the decision page. Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page before making any further edits to the pages in question. This is a non administrator notification, and will be logged as such on the case decision, pursuant to the conditions of the Arbitration Committee's discretionary sanctions system. 

Darkness Shines (talk) 08:47, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry

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D4iNa4 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I understand why I was blocked. I haven't edited since one month before block and want to edit now. D4iNa4 (talk) 06:19, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You are blocked for abuse of multiple accounts. The fact that you want to edit is understood but irrelevant. --Anthony Bradbury 11:45, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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Anthony I already said that why the block was made. I was saying that I understand the block, not to use multiple accounts for illegitimate reasons. Now that I want to start editing again, I want this account to be unblocked first. D4iNa4 (talk) 12:39, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

As I have refused one request I shall not do so again. But I will point out that the fact that you want to edit is not a reason for allowing you to do so. --Anthony Bradbury 19:18, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

D4iNa4 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

User:Callanecc had blocked one year ago, since then, no multiple accounts have been abused and there has been no evasion of block. I promise to continue using only this account. D4iNa4 (talk) 05:02, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I've unblocked you given it's been a year and you haven't evaded your block. Welcome back! Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:42, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Before we go any further, I want you to provide a complete list of accounts that you have created. PhilKnight (talk) 14:36, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

User:Philknight, you should visit . I had created only 2 accounts, RealRx and Aciddery. I had forgot the password of this account, that's why I had created Aciddery like I had described.

That's why no other account were confirmed by admin Dord.

RealRx was blocked on 1 April. If RealRx was a sock of Rafikhsk, why Rafikhsk was not even blocked until May 2014? Rafikhsk doesn't seem to have edited since 2011.

The original block of RealRx was made in mistake, because it was not a sock. Another blocked editor as a sock of Rafikhsk made this edit while I made this removal with my account. Another opposite edit :- and removals of this edit:-

It must had been a mistake that my account had been blocked as a sock. I had never did any tag teaming or double voting with any of my accounts on same page, I just never knew that they should be declared on usepages. There was no actual violation of multiple accounts, cause I never teamed up with my accounts on same page.

For more than a year I haven't even edited. D4iNa4 (talk) 16:10, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

• The user has sent an e-mail to the UTRS tooladmins list because they've responded to PhilKnight's query above but they remain waiting for the appeal to get processed. I moved PhilKnight's "decline" reason as a comment under the unblock request in order to get the unblock request reactivated now that D4iNa4 has responded. For what it's worth, IMHO a year later, the user promises to stick to one account and show at least some manner of understanding of what they did wrong, so I'd likely favor giving them some WP:ROPE (possibly after confirming with a CU if there was more recent abuse?) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:04, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

It has been a year. @Callanecc: - are you okay for an unblock per the above discussion? Ritchie333 10:27, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done since they've already been waiting a while. Thanks, Ritchie. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:42, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

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I need to stop calling content dispute vandalism. I apologize to you. I asked User:jpgordon the same thing and and maybe you can clarify, as I fully make my way through WP:copyright , when we are suppose to use direct sentences and does everything have to be quoted if it is being cited? I find myself conflicted because when I write another way, someone tells me that the no where in the source does it say that because I summarized. Thanks for your reply.Swamiblue

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@Faizan: How much this warning is worth here? He made just one edit (that too with proper and valid explanation at talk page of the article) while edit summary of your notice says "frequent changes without consensus". It was you people who made frequent blunder changes without consensus. Be soft on other editors, don't make Misplaced Pages a Battleground. Don't harass editors by keep on posting various unnecessary warnings. Thank you. --Human3015  15:52, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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Discretionary sanctions alert - India and Pakistan

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