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December 2017 edit

 

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on C. S. Lewis. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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New atheism edit

Sorry to have to revert you at New atheism. The content you were removing was added as part of a merge from Evangelical atheism per this discussion at AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evangelical atheism. I made this same mistake myself. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 23:28, 9 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Plato edit

I see that your additions to the Plato infobox were reverted. The edit summary left by Tajotep was perhaps too terse. The real reason your additions should not have been added is that these subjects are subsumed under the edit Omnipaedista had made earlier the same day; by replacing several topics in the infobox with a link to Template:Platonism, they simplified the infobox presentation. The infobox is not a place to put an exhaustive list. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 20:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

December 2017 edit

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michael O'hara/sandbox edit

 

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Speedy deletion nomination of No forking paths argument edit

 

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Blocked edit

For information: 21:36, 15 December 2017 Bbb23 blocked Michael O'hara (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked: Abusing multiple accounts: Please see: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Apollo The Logician) . Note added by dave souza, talk 22:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)Reply