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Speedy deletion of Green Bay Country Club

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FYI conflict of interest guideline

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  If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Green Bay Country Club, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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Newspaper or magazine articles

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Please add as references newspaper or magazine articles about the Green Bay Country Club. Articles without references are at risk of being deleted. -- Eastmain (talk) 02:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion of List of Characters and Races of Mario Kart Wii

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January 2010

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Jason Bay, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Muboshgu (talk) 17:20, 1 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

This is a friendly note. It says clearly where you edited Bay's team: "Jason Bay is not, and will not be, a member of the Mets until the team officially announces it (press conference) and until he passes his physical. Do not change the team until an official announcement is made." So please don't edit this again. --Muboshgu (talk) 17:22, 1 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

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March 2010

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  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at 2010 NFL Draft, you will be blocked from editing. Eagles 24/7 (C) 03:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Changing capitalization of player positions

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Please do not do this. It does not follow WP:MOS and it's just unnecessary. Y2kcrazyjoker4 (talk) 13:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

April 2010

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Rickie Weeks. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. MC10 (TCGBL) 02:32, 1 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Roy Halladay. There is a Manual of Style that should be followed. Please do not put periods at the end of captions where they are not full sentences. Thanks. KV5 (TalkPhils) 11:49, 14 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

ANI notification

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Player image captions

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Please stop punctuating sentence fragments with periods when adding captions to MLB player infoboxes. It's grammatically incorrect and against the Manual of Style. Thanks. KV5 (TalkPhils) 16:59, 18 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Again, please be sure to observe this stylistic convention. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:31, 20 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Can you at least acknowledge that you've read these messages? Dabomb87 (talk) 22:34, 20 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
  Please stop. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did in Roy Halladay, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. There is a Manual of Style that should be followed. Do not punctuate incomplete sentences, like those in image captions, with a period/full stop. Continuing to do so could be construed as willful ignorance of the numerous messages that many editors have left on your talk page. KV5 (TalkPhils) 17:27, 10 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
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NBA captions

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  Hello, I can see that you have already been warned about not putting period in image captions, and have not listened. I would just like to sincerely ask that you stop this mistake, as it requires other editors to fix those mistakes. Thank you.--Henry talk 03:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Linking

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Please make sure that you do not duplicate links that are repeated earlier in an article, like you did at List of Major League Baseball awards. Thanks. KV5 (TalkPhils) 12:46, 4 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Michigan highway infobox

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WP:USRD/STDS says to limit the junction list in an infobox to 10 junctions. Many articles don't even have that many, limiting the list there to just the most major junctions. You've increased the length of some lists to 15 or even 20 junctions, not counting the termini. Please use some discretion to keep these lists to a reasonable size. As well, when dealing with I-96 and the I-x96s, if you use |country=USA instead of |state=MI, then the template won't link to the Michigan-specific version of the link, which just redirects to regular article. Thank you. Imzadi 1979  22:54, 5 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your edit to the infobox on U.S. Route 223 introduced an error. As it is explained in the body of the article, US 223 actually extends concurrently with US 127 to terminate at US 12. It might not be signed that way, but it does. I have reverted your change to restore the correct terminus. Imzadi 1979  02:04, 6 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
When a junction lists multiple highways, the convention is to list the Interstates first, US Highways second and state highways third. If more than one of the same type are listed, normally each type is listed in numerical order. Please keep this in mind for your future edits. Imzadi 1979  01:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Missouri infobox

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(edit conflict)Please, please, please read WP:USRD/STDS. Not only was Interstate 70 in Missouri over the ten junction limit in the infobox, each line of junctions was listed numerically! When using {{Jct}}, please list the Interstates first, then the US Highways, then state highways. Thank you. –Fredddie 01:07, 7 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

April 2011

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  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Please review WP:USRD/STDS.Fredddie 12:53, 14 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

And again on Interstate 44. –Fredddie 22:33, 19 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
 
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Chicago street article suggestions

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I see that you've been busy creating/editing articles related to Chicago's major streets. I have a few suggestions:

  1. Add a "See also" section with links like:
    •   Chicago portal (*{{portal-inline|Chicago}}) and   U.S. Roads portal (*{{portal-inline|U.S. Roads}})
    • If there are already legitimate see also links, you can use {{portal}} to generate the float box on the right side, but if there aren't, I use the {{portal-inline}} version (which has to be repeated as separate lines in a bulleted list) to generate a nice bulleted list in the section.
  2. Commons boxes (or the -inline variant) should go into an External links section, because Commons pages are not on Wikipedia. Portals are internal links because those are hosted on the same website.
  3. Remove the {{Chicago}} navbox because none of those links in that box are to the street articles. Listing two navboxes makes them autocollapse, and then the reader doesn't see all of the related links in {{Streets in Chicago}} navbox, which are directly related.

The U.S. Roads project may not support/tag/assess/etc street articles, but the U.S. Roads portal includes streets in its scope. So few street articles are in good-enough shape to merit inclusion, but Prairie Avenue was the portal selected article last October; we always welcome street-related content for photos and DYKs as well. The WikiProject has "Roads" in its name because "U.S. Highways" is the name of one of its task forces related to the United States Numbered Highway System; the portal has "Roads" in its name because it includes all types of roads, streets included, in its scope. Imzadi 1979  22:04, 4 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Please explain

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Your recent edits of Illinois routes, particularly I've noticed on 22 and 120, have left without explanation why you changed the major junctions infobox from "near" to "in" on certain cities. For 22 I clearly wrote in the edit summary that "based on multiple boundary maps, this interchange resides directly between Lincolnshire and Bannockburn and is therefor not 'in' Lincolnshire" and you changed it without explanation. I'm guessing that this is the case for other routes as well as some junctions are between 2 cities or not clearly in any city, so it would be nice if you provided an explanation as to why multiple maps are being disregarded. RoadView (talk) 18:36, 29 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Your contributed article, Jeffery Boulevard (Chicago)

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Tri-State Tollway

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Please see Talk:Tri-State Tollway#Infoboxes for the reason why the main infobox should not be modified to include the Edens Spur. Imzadi 1979  04:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Junction count in an infobox

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Please be careful in updating the junction list in a highway article's infobox. USRD has a firm 8–10 limit in response to feedback we've received over the years at WP:FAC. In short, other groups of editors don't like long infoboxes, so we have that limit to keep them from getting too big. Second, we don't have to link the second usage of a city or location name in the list, and in fact, we shouldn't per WP:OVERLINK. Third, it's not necessary to list each end of a concurrency in an infobox, especially when there are no junctions in between. And fourth, it's not necessary, and in fact can make things harder, if you collapse the list by removing the line breaks. We're looking at implementing {{plainlist}} which would mean we actually format each junction as a separate line in a bulleted list in the wikicoding, but the template would not display the bullets. The reason that's done is so that screen readers and another adaptive technologies for the disabled or differently-abled would know that they are items in a list (the bullets), but the plainlist template coding would not display them that way. Removing the line breaks makes it harder to compare changes from one revision to another in "diff" mode. 22:50, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and don't put the segment headers in "Title Case"; Wikipedia uses "Sentence case" for headings and things. That means "Western Segment" is wrong, but "Western segment" is right in the infobox on US 2. The only exception is if the header/heading uses proper nouns that should be capitalized, but such a descriptive name is not a proper noun. Imzadi 1979  22:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Why did you remove Wisconsin Highway 41 from the browser order on U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin. Just because it's a former designation doesn't mean that you should skip it. Imzadi 1979  02:02, 9 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
I concur. Please stop doing this and discuss; this is standard procedure per WP:USRD/STDS. --Rschen7754 04:40, 9 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Please see WP:USRD/STDS#Browsing, which states: The bottom section of the infobox provides a field for browsing all highways in a state in numerical order. Wisconsin Highway 41 exists as an article and historically existed as a once-used highway designation. It should be included in the U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin article. Further removal of it could be termed vandalism. Please discuss this, and stop changing the browser to bypass the article, thank you. Imzadi 1979  04:41, 9 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
This editor doesn't seem to reply to anything, at least not in the obvious place, which is here. They have been doing a huge amount of editing on road articles and some of what I've seen is questionable which makes me wonder about the vast majority which I haven't looked through. RoadView (talk) 09:07, 9 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, that's the thing... I know very little about Midwest roads, so I have no idea if something is right or not. I already blocked this editor last year (which, granted, was a bit sketchy) but as I see it, we're running out of options here, and I'm not exactly sure what else to do. --Rschen7754 09:12, 9 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, it's weird, I glanced over a few Wisconsin edits and for the most part the changes to the infobox appear to be fine. But I have noticed some very likely errors, such as Wisconsin Highway 11's junction with I-94/US-41; it was changed from Sturtevant to Mt. Pleasant, which is incorrect but I don't know what citation/source to use for something like this. Another thing is on the U.S. Route 12 in Wisconsin info box there are way too many junctions listed even though alot of it appears to be accurate. There are other similar issues too, and probably more with other states as well, but it would be incredibly time consuming and tedious to go through every edit. Again, most of it seems to be correct, so I'm not sure what happens in situations like these, especially when the user ostensibly refuses to have a discourse. RoadView (talk) 12:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Junction changes

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You changed U.S. Route 141 from using {{jct|country=USA|I|43}} and {{jct|country=USA|US|8}} to using the |state=WI. While this is technically correct, it has the side effect of pointing the link to Interstate 43 (Wisconsin) instead of Interstate 43 and U.S. Route 8 in Wisconsin instead of U.S. Route 8. Since the state version of the link redirects to the undifferentiated link, you're linking to the intended target through a redirect. That's fine, but not necessary, and since we're not going to break out state-detail articles for I-43 (it's an intrastate Interstate) nor US 8 (250 of the 280 miles of it is in WI and the MI segment is only 2 miles), linking directly to the intended target if preferable. Imzadi 1979  00:10, 11 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Do you ever reply or even read your talk page? Imzadi 1979  03:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Proposed deletion of Green Bay Country Club

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July 2012

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jeffrey Boulevard (Chicago)

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February 2014

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Howdy. Ease up on the long-winded edit summaries. GoodDay (talk) 00:55, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism at Elissa Slotkin

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Elissa Slotkin. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 02:51, 25 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

How the hell was that edit unconstructive? All I did was removed the sentence claiming Slotkin was a "moderate" Democrat. I removed it because in the very next sentence, it states she has voted in line with Biden 100% of the time. Those two sentences are very clearly contradicting to one another. I don't know about you, but that definitely does not sound like a moderate to me. Dooiney (talk) 03:33, 25 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Are you seriously substituting your OR opinions for what a good RS says? That's a clear NPOV violation. Don't just remove properly sourced content, especially without an edit summary or discussion.
Biden happens to be fairly moderate, and even if he weren't, party loyalty is very important now, so her supporting him, instead of handing the GOP victories by creating division in the Democratic party, is strategically the smart thing to do, regardless of any minor differences between him and her. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 03:55, 25 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
BTW, 90% of the time, when RS say something like the above, our logical job is to learn from them and bring our opinions into line with them. Follow the evidence. OTOH, if there is clear disagreement among mainstream RS, it's another matter. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 03:59, 25 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
(Redacted). The only truly moderate Democrat is Joe Manchin. He will vote against Biden's positions a fair amount, especially when it comes to economics and "climate change." Manchin understands that the horrendous inflation and the looming depression (not recession, but depression) is by far and away the number one priority for over 99% of Americans at the moment.
And calling Biden a moderate is also a fucking joke. He has been a puppet his whole career, just going along with whoever the most vocal Democrats have been at the time. Yes, he took much more centrist views in 1990s when Clinton was president, but that is because the Democrats were only slightly left-of-center then. Most of what Biden says and does now echoes the America-hating communists of the Squad, and those idiots are as far from moderate as you can get, on either side of the political spectrum. There have been studies that have shown that Democrats have moved significantly further left since the 1990s than Republicans have moved right in that time frame. Republicans are closer to center than Democrats are today, and it is not even close.
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Only trusted journalistic citations should be used as sources for edits to Wikipedia article. In the 2022 Michigan gubernatorial election article, you used questionable and biased sources the Washington Times and the blog Legal Insurrection. Blogs are frowned upon as anyone can make a blog. Both of these sources have a right-wing slant. Steelbeard1 (talk) 01:35, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

So Wikipedia cannot have right-wing bias, but it can have left-wing bias? I could list countless examples of this if needed. It is a fact that Whitmer stated that schools were closed for only three months, and it is also a fact that schools in places like Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Flint were still closed in the opening months of 2022. And finally, please list at least five sources that have a right-wing slant, and then list at least five sources that have a left-wing slant, just so I can see that Wikipedia is doing everything they can to remain neutral, because turning back this edit makes me question the true neutrality of Wikipedia. Dooiney (talk) 01:56, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
I'll list five each. Left-wing: Alternet, BuzzFeed, Huffpost, Mother Jones, Slate. Right-wing: American Spectator, Breitbart, Blaze, Newsmax, OAN. There are others. Once again, it was the school districts, NOT THE GOVERNOR, who closed schools for COVID outbreak reasons longer than three months. Steelbeard1 (talk) 12:41, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
It doesn't matter if Whitmer was the one responsible for those schools being closed into 2022 or not. The fact that she said that they were only closed for three months, which is factually incorrect, shows that she has no problem covering up for and defending those school closures, which we are now seeing the drastic negative impacts those had on children, when it comes to learning loss and test scores, social development, depression, drug use, etc. Dooiney (talk) 14:19, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
And speaking of bias, let me ask you this. Which of these sources would you consider biased, if any: Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, New York Post, New York Times, and Washington Post? Dooiney (talk) 14:34, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
The clear answer regarding your new list is the New York Post with an obvious right wing slant. Steelbeard1 (talk) 18:32, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
That's what I figured you'd say. You are so far to the left yourself, it is so obvious. The New York Times and the Washington Post are further left than the New York Post is to the right. Don't kid yourself, you know it's true. So if anyone posts anything from the New York Post on Wikipedia, it would be considered from a biased source and removed? Dooiney (talk) 18:43, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Regarding the questionable citations I called out, the blog Legal Insurrection gave the headline "Michigan Gov. Whitmer Lies About Closing Schools for Only Three Months Over COVID" when I made it VERY CLEAR that it was the school boards and not the governor who kept the schools closed longer. Note that questionable news stories have a tendency to edit stories to fit their biases and also change the story's context. The Washington Times piece does mention in the body of the text about the school boards closing the schools, but Republican spokespeople in the piece blamed her and NOT the school boards. Steelbeard1 (talk) 18:51, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Check out this Forbes magazine piece from 2017 regarding reliable news sources. [1] Steelbeard1 (talk) 18:54, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
You dodging me calling you out proves my point even more. I'm done with you. (Redacted). Dooiney (talk) 18:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
 
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"List of Characters and Races of Mario Kart Wii" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Couldnt find anything about this besides directions, fails GNG in terms of reliable sources. If you find any reliable sources, please add them

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