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Howdy. Would you make a list of the socks you mentioned at AN & who is or was caught or suspected of owning those socks? GoodDay ( talk) 00:58, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello Dennis. You have just deleted several of my posts dating from last week back to May 2019 (over six months ago) about Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, giving reasons that they are 'blatant advertising' and 'copy and pasted from the website'. However my posts were original and not promotional in the slightest; they were objective, neutral, informative and of great relevance to anyone with an interest in Triumph motorcycles, and for that reason I would appreciate you reconsidering your recent actions by undoing the edits and deletions you've made. Thank you. Markthebikefan ( talk) 10:24, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
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I fixed a link wether you agree with the fix or not. 100.11.77.202 ( talk) 21:20, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
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with a citation that verifies that Eastman Industries is a significant roadster bicycle manufacturer. Links to companies are generally just spam; we really need citations of independent third party
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23:33, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Dennis, I'm helping to schedule and push out info on 2020 Wikipedia related events in Cascadia. Just polling you to see if you are aware of any e.g. the Chittenden Locks tour you did some time ago? ☆ Bri ( talk) 02:49, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Issue 37, November – December 2019
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:09, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
I made a WT Social userbox:
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I was incubating this for more evidence but another used it to WP space, so might as well point it out to you. Cheers and stay well ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:59, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
This is your only warning; if you purposefully and blatantly
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Smallbones( smalltalk) 22:41, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
This is your only warning; if you make
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Alternatively, you could simply focus on content. Stop talking about who you are, stop talking about who other editors are. Stop telling us about your motives, stop claiming to know the motives of others. Post only about article content and sources, and post nothing about other people. If you simply followed that basic rule, all your problems would evaporate. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 23:37, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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Dennis you actually have multiple forums to respond to what Carmaker has written. You can do so at ANI. You can do so at ArbCom. You can do so at El C's talk page. In fact you did this last one. You do not have some inherent right to do so on Carmaker's user talk page. Stop edit warring over it. By policy you are already past 3RR and could be blocked. As a formal warning I advise you to immediately cut it out. You are of course welcome to respond to the ANI thread or at ArbCom. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 00:38, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 38, January – April 2020
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Photos from our visit to Haleets were selected by Atlas Obscura [1]. Edited to add: missed it in your photo index, already there. Anyway, pleasing to see them. I added a bunch to my own index lately. ☆ Bri ( talk) 14:17, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Nice work on streamlining the lede on 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, but I'll note that Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers, specifically MOS:NUMNOTES, states, "comparable values should be all spelled out or all in figures, even if one of the numbers would normally be written differently". So you changed the correct
to the incorrect
I changed it back. I recognize that this looks odd to people familiar with other manuals of style. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 20:55, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
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Statement formerly here was stupid and has been removed by its author. Isaac Rabinovitch ( talk) 04:51, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
You moved Erica C. Barnett to the draft namespace in 2019 but I can't find what happened to the old talk page. Is it possible to merge the old talk page back into the new Talk:Erica C. Barnett? JzG ( talk · contribs) also moved it -- from Draft:Erica C. Barnett. to Draft:Erica C. Barnett due to an extraneous period. Not sure who could resurrect the page but it would save a lot of time if the past discussions were available if not on talk then in the talk archive. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:46, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
I've undeleted per your formal request: Draft talk:Erica C. Barnett. SilkTork ( talk) 17:30, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
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Can you put Michel von Tell on your watchlist? I think we have potentially some pseudo LDR promotion going on. ☆ Bri ( talk) 04:06, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
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While I didn't care for your attitude towards me ("No one cares about your feelings"), I did have it coming and I guess I should grow up and not get too offended by it. I was wrong for trying to change somethinh due to opinions but it really came out of me wanting the place to be more positive. I'm a huge fan of her and I do know what she's experienced. It was still wrong of me to do and I'm sorry. Can you ever forgive me? -- HenryBarnill 11:38 10 January 2021 (UTC)
So whether I like you or not or whether I forgive you or not, one thing I can say is that if we can stick to sources and leave everything else out of it, we can get along. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
If you're not going to state facts and cite the sources for those facts, then don't post anything. Don't add content to an article without sources. Don't delete content from articles without reading the sources. That's what I want. Talk to me about what's in the sources, or don't talk to me. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:46, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 42, November – December 2020
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I'm not vandalizing anything. I already explained my edit. 136.158.59.173 ( talk) 05:03, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure who HughD is. 136.158.59.173 ( talk) 05:23, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 43, March – April 2021
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Hello. I see that you have made good faith removals of numerous flagicon entries for international motorsports competitors. Please know that this is against consensus for these people. The situation is different from many other sports as, because you have stated elsewhere, there are no formal national 'teams'. However, the tradition of the sport and the international regulations defined by the governing body codify and control the competitor's 'nationality' with respect to their international sporting career. In this aspect, the guides have always been incorrect, mostly because they are dominated by kevball dingbats who know jack about motorsport history, tradition and modern practice. The drivers most certainly do represent their respective nations, and this is demonstrated abundantly within the sport. Cheers. Pyrop e 17:27, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
I recently traced the alleged-'local consensus', where F1 articles were decided to be exempt from the normal, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons/Archive 14#Formula 1 where Pyrope contributed. I didn't wade through all of it, but the complaints were that there was historic nationalism involving team colours (eg., British Racing Green) and possibly some other argument over licensing countries (see Bo Bendsneyder where the IP wanted him as Indonesian, and Can Öncü who was allegedly born in Norway, not Turkey as asserted on-Wiki). Another gripe was that few (too few) editors made the decision to deprecate flags. Seems to me that a new RfC is needed.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 18:33, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
I'd ask Pyrop to carefully read MOS:FLAG and accept what the words say: the Olympics and World Cup are competitions between national teams. Any other random sport, no. You might wish it said something else, but it doesn't, so please just take the flags off. Otherwise, I guess a big RfC is needed where two dozen editors will all say to follow the MOS as written. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 19:21, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
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0mtwb9gd5wx. I noticed that you are making confused changes to content in an article,
Honda Super Cub, but you didn't provide a any valid reason. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to
include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the
tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Thank you.
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I'd thought the context - the op-ed writer's dislike of the Flick analogy - made the use more authoritative. In the grand scheme of things it's not great to have discussion of the analogy be so Clinton-centric, but it's also likely that sources on other uses won't come up all that often. Suffice it to say that this edit would be a very roundabout way to defame Stefanik, so maybe best to hold off on ascribing motive? Camperdownian ( talk) 03:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I have noticed you have reverted my edits. I understand your reasons, but I have to tell you why those images are irrelevant. First, they are very poor. A simple dot on a map, and only 3 options. Second, the title gets in the way of important information, such as surrounding areas. You can even get at a glance views of the interactive map, but those take up space. We're in the 21st century, and these already exist by default in map infoboxes. Many other cities only have these, Atlanta, Boston, Portland OR and ME, Providence, Columbus, Denver, Salt Lake City, New York, Los Angeles, etc. SkunkaMunka ( talk) 20:25, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
I forgot to mention. The city is outlined, just zoom in on the map, you’ll see it. Also, relief maps are irrelevant. These are only good for natural areas. I am working with other proponents of the mapframe project to have a relief switch implemented. But for now, interactive maps are far better than pushpins. SkunkaMunka ( talk) 20:52, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
Can someone please go about an interactive map on the Seattle article? I would really love this to be implemented. SkunkaMunka ( talk) 21:05, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 45, May – June 2021
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Hello, Dennis Bratland. I wanted to thank you for addressing the issue of the mass deletion of military infoboxes directly to User:Binksternet on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography. Binksternet unduly deleted 112 military infoboxes within one hour-- and he only targeted articles whose infoboxes that I personally edited (no doubt by searching through my user contribution history). Several of the articles already had a military infobox, I merely added more information or a citation to several of them. But apparently even if it was sourced properly, it didn't matter. And he didn't even delete all the military infoboxes that I added or edited. Several of them still remain, and I can attest the ones he left untouched are not those of public figures who are specifically known for their military service-- so it would appear the 100+ infoboxes Binksternet deleted were done so indiscriminately. He hasn't yet deleted military infoboxes in other articles that I did not edit-- which to me, comes off more as a content dispute or vandalism directed towards my edits personally rather than an effort to adhere to proper editing form.
There seems to be no guiding principle or consistent logic to this mass deletion. I mean, is the 8 weeks that speaker of the House John Boehner spent in enlisted Navy boot camp in 1968 before he was medically discharged for a bad back really that notable enough for Wikipedia that it should remain in his infobox? But yet, the more than 50 bombing missions that acclaimed filmmaker Robert Altman flew as an Army Air Force officer and co-pilot of a B-24 Liberator in the Pacific Theater of World War II is not notable enough for his infobox? Where's the logic in that? Or, is senator Mitch McConnell famous specifically for the 37 days he spent in the Army Reserve before his discharge and thus should remain in his infobox? And I'm not even trying to discount Boehner or McConnell's brief service periods, just that Binksternet's reasoning for the mass deletion is simply ridiculous and unfounded.
I see that you're an Air Force veteran. I was also in the service, having served overseas in the Navy during the early and middle phases of the Iraq War, which explains my strong interest in the military records of many, many notable people. Who's to judge which person's military service is more notable than another's? If a notable person devoted their time to the service, then I believe it should be noted in their infobox regardless of the length of their service period and regardless whether or not that person is specifically notable for their service-- and I'm certain most other editors (and biographers) feel this way as well. I have an itching to do a mass revert of those deletions, but then I may then be accused of instigating an editing war or possibly risk an edit ban on Wikipedia-- which I surely don't want to risk. This is what irritates me the most about Wikipedia-- the hubris of many of the senior editors that all seem to think that they own every article on the site, and if they simply don't "like" a particular edit (despite it being appropriately sourced), then poof! It's gone. Hours, days, weeks of my own hard work and research flushed down the toilet. It just makes me not want to contribute anymore if it's all gonna be for nothing, anyway. But I ranted long enough and again, thank you for taking the time to address the issue. It's greatly appreciated. — Ldavid1985 ( talk) 08:07, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 46, July – August 2021
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In December 2017 you brought Carmaker1 to the ANI board. The community is now considering an Indef block or Topic Ban proposals, if you'd like to weigh in now is your chance. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:04, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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A situation has arisen whereby a new SPA is deleting text added by yourself. I have left guidance in the edit summary but has again deleted; if you have the time could you swing by Talk:American Motorcyclist Association#Outlaw and One Percentor Description, as the refs and content being challenged will mean much more to you. Thanks.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 14:56, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
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