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Peter Swirski

I reverted you changing the Peter Swirski article back to where it was. I left edit summaries explaining each of the changes, but I'll point out a few here. First, we do not provide lists of reviewer comments. You could possibly incorporate a few of those comments into the article, but it would need to be put into prose, embedded into the text itself, and, ideally, summarized rather than quoted. This article cannot be a promotional tool or collection of promotional statements about Swirski. Additionally, per WP:EL, we cannot provide direct links to the Amazon sales pages for each of the books. The one link I kept and turned into a reference is okay, because it was specifically verifying the reviews. Finally, the number of external links at the bottom was excessive and violating WP:EL.

If you have any questions, please ask here, on the article's talk page, or on my talk page. Thanks. Qwyrxian (talk) 15:32, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Please read WP:EL. We don't allow direct links, like you did in the first paragraph, and we don't allow links to press releases. In general, artiles should have only a very small number of high quality links. Please revert your own re-addition of those links. Also, please use edit summaries in your edits. Underneath the big main editing box, there's a small box labeled edit summary--that's where you should explain your changes. Thanks. Qwyrxian (talk) 21:49, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ars Americana, Ars Politica

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Peter Swirski picture

Could you please explain something? On the uploaded file, it says that you (Aitwl) is the owner of this work, and you're releasing it into the public domain. But on the article, the caption says that this is a picture from an interview for European TV. Are you saying that you are the owner of the television show? I'm a little confused. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:37, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Peter Swirski European TV3 2009.jpg missing description details

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File permission problem with File:Peter Swirski European TV3 2009.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Peter Swirski European TV3 2009.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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May 2011

Please do not remove file deletion tags from file description pages on Wikipedia, as you did to File:Peter Swirski European TV3 2009.jpg, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 04:53, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

External Links

As I explained to you above in May, Wikipedia does not allow external links to book titles. In general, Wikipedia wants only a very few, select number of external links. You can see details at WP:EL. But one rule that's easy to learn is that we (almost) never allow direct links embedded in the article text. All links must be in a separate section at the bottom (below references) called "External Links". These links must be about the subject (i.e., about Swirski, not links to individual books he has written), and they must meet the criteria set forth in WP:EL. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:34, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

I have reverted your edits to this page since they were misplaced and inappropriate. Arthur Holland (talk) 16:15, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Swirski's book Ars....

I have removed you r edit from the American Republican Party page since the book you added to the references is not referred to in the article. Arthur Holland (talk) 16:48, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Richard Nixon talk page notice

I have added a section on the talk page for the article Richard Nixon titled "Section deleted on 13 December 2012." Please share your thoughts on the talk page. Thanks. Mitchumch (talk) 17:10, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Question for Administration

An anonymous (128.59.128.156) inserted a malicious, personal, libellous attack at 10:35 on 19 February 2014 on Peter Swirski wiki page, please advise what can i do to prevent this? thank you. Aitwl (talk) 03:32, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

It has been deleted. Please add new questions and comments to the bottom of talk pages. Mkdw^talk 05:09, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Question for Administrator

{{admin help}}

I have contacted you before after an anonymous malicious insertion appeared on 'Peter Swirski' page. I would like to request a semi protection for this page because i found this morning that some malicious individual again keeps inserting false information into the page. Thank you very much for your help.

Aitwl (talk) 19:12, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

The page to request protection can be found at WP:RFPP  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Peter Swirski

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Aitwl (talk) 00:10, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Dispute resolution noticeboard request re Peter Swirski claim to UMSL faculty status

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Peter_Swirski.23Inflated_claims_of_UMSL_connections_and_possible_COI

Since you are an interested editor in the Peter Swirski article, I would like to notify you of my request for a disinterested third party to assist in the editorial contention that Swirski has never been an UMSL faculty member. Quartermaster (talk) 14:47, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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