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Torture

I've bee away for the weekend so apologies for the tardy response. Sorry if I was a little harsh with you. Personally I'd remove a lot of the external stuff under torture. The external links/further reading tends not to get the same level of editing as the rest of an article an so they tend to grow over time, and only occasionally get pruned. With the references you gave you might like to look at the article Uses of torture in recent times.

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Edits to Chaucer

Dear Improve,

Hello, and thanks for your attention to Geoffrey Chaucer. But please do be cautious with asserting that the usage there is grammatically incorrect; in many of the cases you have introduced errors instead of correcting them. In one case, "family," the usage is correct British English (in the UK words such as "family" and corporation" are regarded as plurals); in another two cases, the "a" is in fact necessary for the sense of the statement; lastly in the bibliographical entry the "was" is not appropriate; bibliographical statements are treated as appositive phrases, not as sentences. I hope you will understand that I regard all these as "good faith" edits! I have corrected only those which were truly necessary. Clevelander96 (talk) 13:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Dither

Hello Improve, I've been trying to "improve" the electronic noise page a bit. Thanks for your paragraph about dither - I've made some changes, and moved it to it's own section. Could you have a look and check that it's still accurate? Thanks! GyroMagician (talk) 23:19, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

External links

Sorry, removed the one you added as it was a personal webpage -- see WP:EL. It was also I'm afraid nonsense, and the Haplogroup X stuff was completely obsolete as that research has been shown to be inaccurate. Dougweller (talk) 11:31, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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January 2016

Hello, I'm Acroterion. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Nazi human experimentation, but you didn't provide a reliable source. 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 14:09, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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Your addition to Health Insurance Innovations has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. MarioGom (talk) 17:15, 28 August 2018 (UTC) RESPONSE FROM IMPROVE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners THIS WIKIPEDIA REFERENCE FOR BEGINNERS STATES THAT WIKIPEDIA RULES ALLOW SHORT QUOTATIONS. SO, WIKIPEDIA DOES NOT HAVE SPECIAL RULES ABOUT QUOTATIONS THAT GO BEYOND THE FAIR USE ACT. THE FAIR USE ACT ALSO ALLOWS SHORT QUOTATIONS. I ATTRIBUTED THE SOURCE, AND USED QUOTATION MARKS. TO PUBLICLY AND RUDELY ACCUSE SOMEONE OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS HORRIBLE, AND THE PERSON WHO DID IT (MARIOGOM) SHOULD BE BANNED FROM WIKIPEDIA AND SUED FOR SLANDER. IF WIKIPEDIA AIDS AND ABETS THIS ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, WIKIPEDIA SHOULD BE SUED.Improve~enwiki (talk) 12:47, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

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