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October 2022

Hi Professor Penguino! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Aaron Maté several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree at Talk:Aaron Maté, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. Kleinpecan (talk) 01:14, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Kleinpecan. Thank you for taking the time to write to me. The article was biased and unfair to Aaron Mate. I was in no way trying to start an edit war. This is actually the first time I have edited or even attempted to edit the Aaron Mate page. It is important for Wikipedia to be objective, fair, and balanced--and back up claims with objectively proven facts and citations. If I have time, I will bring it up on the Talk Page.

Sincerely, Fellow Wikipedian, Professor Penguino (talk) 01:34, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

The problem is that the phrase award-winning is puffery. His awards are already listed in the article. Kleinpecan (talk) 01:38, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

With all due respect, then why is "fringe" included in the introduction? The word "fringe" is very prejudicial. Whereas "award-winning" is just a simple fact--not puffery--to balance out the negative biased word "fringe." Professor Penguino (talk) 01:45, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia defines Puffery as, "exaggerated or false praise." To say that Aaron Mate is an "award winning Canadian journalist" is neither false, nor exaggerated. It is simply a fact. Professor Penguino (talk) 01:52, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

As per MOS:PUFFERY, those are "words [that] are often used without attribution to promote the subject of an article, while neither imparting nor plainly summarizing verifiable information".

As per WP:NPOV, Wikipedia articles should represent "fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic." If reliable sources are primarily negative, so will be the Wikipedia article. There is no requirement to engage in false balance and balance articles out. Kleinpecan (talk) 02:17, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

1.) The fact that Mate is "award-winning" *is* attributed--I included a citation. Indeed, it is indisputable. 2.) It is not in fact "puffery" because it is easily verifiable that he won the Izzy Award. 3.) By your own logic, you are inconsistent as other journalists are referred to as "award-winning" and you have no problem using the word "fringe," which is a negative prejudicial put-down. 4.) In any case, I propose as a compromise that Wikipedia move the fact that Mate won the IZZY Award from the first sentence of the introduction to the last sentence of the intro. You can look up many award-winning journalists on Wikipedia--the fact that they won awards is always prominently featured in the first introductory paragraph, often in the last sentence of the introduction. Professor Penguino (talk) 03:49, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Again, I really appreciate your feedback. I love Wikipedia. Professor Penguino (talk) 01:46, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm EchidnaLives. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. echidnaLives (talk) 01:17, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi, EchidnaLives. The quote is as cited in Joy Hakim's 2005 book The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600 Chapter 22, Page 110. I was actually in the midst of writing a citation when my edits were suddenly reverted before I had a chance to add the citation. Professor Penguino (talk) 01:42, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

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Yes, I do. Why do you ask? Professor Penguino (talk) 02:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Why not ask? Some people like to join Wikipedia in small groups to work on certain projects, but I find it a bit strange when multiple accounts edit with the behavior of experienced users. Graham87 was also somewhat confused by this, as can be seen here: User talk:Pax Wikipedian#Blocked. — Nythar (💬-🎃) 02:27, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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December 2022

Hi. I am just letting you know that I am not trying to edit war. I put an explanation for my edit that you reverted. Figure it would help clarify why I made that change. CartoonnewsCP (talk) 22:45, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

I understand now. Thank you for your clarification. Have a nice day! Professor Penguino (talk) 22:47, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Spacing

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Bolivia and ANI

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Hi, Pbritti! Thank you for fixing the Bolivia page! Next time I'll go to the Teahouse for help. I'll definitely try installing Twinkle. Sincerely, Fellow Wikipedian, Professor Penguino (talk) 02:06, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

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Gubble

hi, on what basis did you re-revert my edit of Gubble just now? I replaced an incorrect developer credit for the PlayStation version (crediting the US publisher of the game as the developer) with one referenced to GDRI which is a well-regarded source among game historians, had it reverted by a bot in what appeared to be a false positive, and as per the message left by the bot on my talk page, I reported the false positive and redid the edit only to find it reverted again by you with no explanation 81.101.170.185 (talk) 21:06, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

The revert was actually an accident, so I am sorry about that. I have just reverted my revert, so your revision is now in place again. Regards, Professor Penguino (talk) 21:28, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you very much, Captain Raju! A Merry Christmas to you as well! Professor Penguino (talk) 23:57, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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Vandalism? No. I reverted to the last stable revision and fixed a citation. Since the 1RR is in place on the article, I'm going to let this go. But vandalism is serious. I spend half of my time on Wikipedia reverting vandalism. Try not to accuse good-faith editors of being vandals next time.

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Semi-protection of this page

Do you want me to semi-protect this page? PhilKnight (talk) 22:29, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Yes please! Thank you so much! Professor Penguino (talk) 22:29, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

This IP keeps harassing me and wearing me down. I would really appreciate it. Professor Penguino (talk) 22:30, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done. PhilKnight (talk) 22:32, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Professor Penguino (talk) 22:40, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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Dang. Professor Penguino (talk) 21:50, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

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I removed warnings from a talk page? When? Professor Penguino (talk) 20:57, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, misword there. I meant re-add warnings to a talk page. See WP:NOTWALLOFSHAME. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 21:17, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Ah, yes. Sorry about that. A bad decision on my part. Professor Penguino (talk) 21:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

No need to apologize, just a note for next time. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 21:22, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Professor Penguino (talk) 21:27, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

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Sure. Sounds cool. Professor Penguino (talk) 04:12, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks for the feedback! I'll try adding more independent, reliable, secondary sources! Professor Penguino (talk) 01:22, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Professor Penguino! This userspace essay has a space at the start of its title, causing it to be sorted at the top of Category:User essays, rather than under W. Would you object if the page was moved to remove the space (or alternatively, a {{DEFAULTSORT}} magic word added)?

All the best, ^user:A smart kitten_meow 11:12, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

I would not mind. Thank you very much for asking! Professor Penguino (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

No problem :) ^user:A smart kitten_meow 18:53, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: 2023 Black Sea Fleet HQ missile strike (September 23)

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DYK nomination of 2023 missile strike on the Sevastopol Naval Base

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Hey, I saw that there was a problem with the source I added. Is it a formatting thing, or a problem with the source itself? Professor Penguino (talk) 23:23, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, LOL now I got what you were saying. Ok, I'll try looking for those citations right away. Thanks. Professor Penguino (talk) 23:27, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

 Done. Unsourced material was wither removed or sourced. You can check back over it again when you get a chance. :) Professor Penguino (talk) 01:53, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

For Future Reference

You can close a discussion you started if you are withdrawing your idea. I went ahead and did it for you procedurally. :) Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 00:59, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh, thanks!! Professor Penguino (talk) 01:19, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Welp - my close got reverted. I presume what I said applies outside of the idea lab. Anyway have a good day! Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 04:36, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Aw, that's too bad. Have a good one! Professor Penguino (talk) 04:46, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you! This will help me a lot fighting vandalism. Have a good one. Professor Penguino (talk) 20:53, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Drafts

Hi Professor Penguino. Just a head up that there's no requirement to use draftspace for confirmed editors without a COI. Please try to avoid implying otherwise. – Joe (talk) 07:24, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

I didn’t imply it was required. I didn’t move the editor’s article back to draft space or something like that. If I am not mistaken, it is preferring if editors start a draft before creating a stub article. It was simply because the article was pretty much a stub that hadn’t gone through the process of review. That’s all.

Have a good one. Professor Penguino (talk) 20:42, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: 1777 in Russia (October 18)

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File:Sophia and jayne.jpg and WP:NFCC/WP:NFC

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Oh, thanks! Professor Penguino (talk) 19:01, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Lady Qiguan (November 1)

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Reversion

Apologies for reverting your addition of "nonfiction" to The Real Anthony Fauci. I had misread that as part of another editor's misinformation to information change. Rjjiii (ii) (talk) 00:29, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

No worries! Professor Penguino (talk) 20:02, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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DYK for Missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters

On 14 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that shortly after a missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, Oleksiy Danilov said that the fleet could be "sliced up like a salami" at a later date? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2023 missile strike on the Sevastopol Naval Base. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Niña move

Have you considered WP:PRIMARYTOPIC? Generally, when replacing a primary article with a disambiguation page, you should discuss this on the primary's talk page, first. That would involve discussing whether any article in the disambiguation alternatives even approaches the use count of the primary, and whether there was any potential for confusion. Tarl N. (discuss) 08:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to revert my change if you think it might have caused confusion. Professor Penguino (talk) 10:36, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

I didn't take action, it appears several other people took exception and it was undone. The reason I suggest page moves be done very cautiously, and only after discussion, is because they cannot be easily reverted. Only admins are capable of undoing this kind of move. You can move to an unoccupied page, but in doing so you leave behind a redirect, which cannot be overriden without advanced permissions. As it happens, I saw discussion that one problem caused by your move was the it created 70-odd disambiguation links (links within other pages which suddenly ended up pointing to a disambiguation page rather than the desired target). These links would have all had to be fixed. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 05:51, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Yikes. I definitely will have to read up more on page moves, and how to prevent that from happening again... it's good that someone reverted it and cleaned up the mess I made. Sorry for any trouble I caused.

Sincerely, Professor Penguino (talk) 05:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks! Professor Penguino (talk) 20:35, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Banderite. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. 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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"I don't think that your way of communicating on the talk page and via edit summaries matches WP's collaborative spirit." Would you mind telling me exactly how? Professor Penguino (talk) 01:06, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

For your edit summary, I already explained myself[1] on the respective talk page. For your way of communicating on the talk page, I was primarily referring to this post[2]. If somebody makes fun of another person's concerns ("Lol", "the world is flat"), that is often a sign that they just didn't understand where the problem is. Rsk6400 (talk) 08:51, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

You're misrepresenting the situation. I'll make a few points:

1. I used "Lol" just because I thought it was funny that you were using a flawed argument. That's it. You have not actually shown why my revision was a violation of WP:DUE - all I did was insert a fact acknowledged by multiple reliable sources.

2. The way you quoted it here is misleading, as it seems like I said "the world is flat" sarcastically. I did not. I compared your argument (that because some people see Bandera as a hero, we cannot put the "ultranationalist" qualifier next to his name) to the argument that Wikipedia cannot clarify the Earth as a planet because some people think it's flat.

3. You ignored the fact that I put two reliable sources next to the addition. Read WP:FALSEBALANCE if you haven't already.

Sincerely, Professor Penguino (talk) 20:41, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

You didn't understand my argument. Being a teacher of physics (and history) I can't resist explaining to you that the question of the Earth being flat and being a planet are different questions: During the European Middle Ages, many educated people knew that the Earth was not flat, but they couldn't believe that it was a planet before Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler, and Newton. Rsk6400 (talk) 08:06, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

That's interesting. So, what was your argument, if I supposedly misunderstood it? Professor Penguino (talk) 08:11, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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