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Happy editing! Cheers, Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 08:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

August 2023

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Chris Murphy. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

The references are there. News articles were written about the Logan Act and the Tweet is still there. There are references to the tweets too. 2600:1700:3BDE:2010:D5B:1940:280:A61F (talk) 19:43, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

The reference didn't say that Murphy met with the foreign minister "secretly", and the Logan Act comment came from Trump and is complete nonsense as Murphy was there as a U.S. Senator, not a private citizen. It was a "poorly referenced" addition. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:46, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Sure I will add the news article that mentions he met him secretly. The publication that first brought this to light. 2600:1700:3BDE:2010:D5B:1940:280:A61F (talk) 19:50, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Here is the article: https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/18/after-stonewalling-for-days-sen-chris-murphy-finally-admits-he-secretly-met-with-iranian-regime-in-munich/ IranianDiaspora (talk) 20:07, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Chris Murphy. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:04, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

WP:RSP: The Federalist is generally unreliable for facts due to its partisan nature and its promotion of conspiracy theories. However, it may be usable for attributed opinions. Don't edit war. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:04, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Why are you removing my edits and flagging me? They are the ones that discovered the secret meeting. This is not a place to censure information. People have the right to know! I have never read their other articles but I assume you are a deeply partisan individual as well for trying to censure information. IranianDiaspora (talk) 20:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

You write it in a way that makes sense. It was a secret meeting, it was controversial, and that is why he wrote the medium article. You don't want that source, use another one. There are other publications that mention that. Do that instead of censuring. i even added the context that Trump called it a violation of Logan Act. IranianDiaspora (talk) 20:26, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

You write it in a way that makes sense. It was a secret meeting, it was controversial, and that is why he wrote the medium article. You don't want that source, use another one. There are other publications that mention that. Do that instead of censuring. I had even added the context that Trump called it a violation of Logan Act that you asked but you removed the whole thing.

Here is a citation that is not a violation of WP:RSP: https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-murphy-meeting-zarif-iran-foreign-minister IranianDiaspora (talk) 21:10, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:MAHSA Act

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 02:40, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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Please self-revert at George Soros

Hi, IranianDiaspora. Did you read the edit notice at George Soros, where it says, in a very in-your-face way when you go to edit the article, that "Changes challenged by reversion may not be reinstated without affirmative consensus on the talk page"? You made a change here; I reverted it here; you should not have reinstated your original edit without first getting consensus for it on talk, but you did, here. Please self-revert and then try to get consensus on talk, or you may be blocked for violating a Contentious topic rule. Bishonen | tålk 23:10, 8 December 2023 (UTC).

Hey, sorry for the bad practice. I am no longer contesting this. Reverted my edit. IranianDiaspora (talk) 23:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Bishonen | tålk 23:40, 8 December 2023 (UTC).

Cori Bush

We need independent reliably published sources meeting our criteria at WP:RSN. Doing your own analysis of a source isn't allowed. Doug Weller talk 11:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

What I added was not an analysis but a fact but a voting record on a bill with a rock solid reference. Voting records count as independent reliable sources. Please revert your revert. IranianDiaspora (talk) 16:12, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

The issue isn't whether the source is reliable, it is rather is the reason you want to use it encyclopedic/significant. And for that we need several reliably published sources. Doug Weller talk 15:22, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

It's significance arises from it's uniqueness. When there are only 3 representatives voting against something it signals their difference. For example, you can check Barbara Lee's wiki page. Many of the reference are just voting records. For instance this sentence "Lee voted against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002", 133 members voted no including her and the only references are the roll calls. There should not be preferential biases. IranianDiaspora (talk) 17:08, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

I have gathered additional references, from Iranian (in Persian), Arabic sources (in English), and Jewish sources (in English). I will revert your revert and add the additional resources. IranianDiaspora (talk) 17:32, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

It doesn’t matter if other articles don’t follow our policies and guidelines, see [[Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages#What about other content?. Doug Weller talk 20:13, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

I had added 3 resources if you read my last comment. please revert your last revert. I am starting to feel there is bias to suppress this fact even with resources. IranianDiaspora (talk) 06:09, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Considering I know nothing about Cori Bush and am against Islamaphobia, it don't see how I could have bias in the issue. Anyway I'm tired of this and have no time for it. So I'm not editing that article again. Doug Weller talk 07:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I will take that as a consent to change it back. Rest assured this is not even remotely related to Islamophobia. She is a Christian pastor, not a Muslim and 2 out of the 3 Muslim members of the House voted yes on the bill which again does not have anything to do with religion. IranianDiaspora (talk) 12:03, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

December 2023

Hi IranianDiaspora! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Cori Bush that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:34, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for letting me know. I was instructed to revert manually and wanted to add references, previously. I added the change not as 'Minor edit' IranianDiaspora (talk) 20:10, 10 December 2023 (UTC)