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  Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Sword and sorcery, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Just a note about POV here, but the King Arthur tales arguably feature the most famous sword and the most famous sorcerer in the whole English canon, maybe even the whole Western canon, unsure where you're coming from that the King Arthur legendarium is then not sword and sorcery... JesseRafe (talk) 19:19, 25 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

I agree that there are lots of swords and sorcery in the King Arthur stories. Please see the talk page of the article where this is being discussed. Thanks.PopSci (talk) 19:31, 25 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Removals from "See also" sections of Bogdanov affair, Cargo cult, Sokal affair, Superficiality

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You have removed links from the "See also" sections of Bogdanov affair, Cargo cult, Sokal affair, and Superficiality. Those links, though, were relevant and useful. I restored the links for Bogdanov affair, Cargo cult, and Superficiality. Someone else, JesseRafe, restored the links for Sokal affair.

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You are right. I did get a bit carried away. Thanks for the link to the policy. PopSci (talk) 17:23, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
Kind thanks for your note--I'm glad we agree! 86.152.238.86 (talk) 17:37, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Lewis Okun

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I have added some more material, however you might be correct that he is not notable. He has one published book. PopSci (talk) 01:55, 22 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for letting me know. I will remain neutral in the debate. He seemed to be notable when I started the article, but perhaps not. PopSci (talk) 02:05, 22 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Your confusion regarding sci-fi

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If you had an email option, I could email you somethings that could further help you distinguish between what is and what is not science fiction.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 07:53, 27 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

If you want to take non-SF out of the article that is fine with me.PopSci (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
I already have, but I think it's important that you and others better understand what you're editing about so that way you don't make the same mistakes again. And besides, from your editing history it seems you enjoy this sort of material. Do you know how to enable email? You have to go to preferences and add an email address. I won't be able to see it even if I sent you something. The only way of me seeing it is if you reply to my email, which is not required. You'll be able to see my email because I'm the one sending it.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 21:15, 27 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Please post a link to the material on the Science fiction talk page.PopSci (talk) 16:46, 28 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
That would be copyright violation. We don't post links to copyright material on Wikipedia, even on talk pages. From your editing history I thought you might enjoy watching and understanding them and it would help improving your editing in this area.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 20:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
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You comment on Robynthehode page about SF

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Divine Principle Discussion

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Hi! I noticed you were working on restoring to article status Divine Principle. You referenced a talk page discussion. Given that your proposal had only been around for 1 day (a week would be normal) it seems premature. Further that talk page was not the proper place to have this discussion since it's a third party (neither the current article or the article being restored). To try and help this find a larger audience I have place a notification at both talk pages about your discussion. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:04, 28 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

OK. Thanks. I would certainly not object to reverting my changes if that turns out to be the consensus.PopSci (talk) 22:09, 28 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

26 alphabet listed at Redirects for discussion

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Proposed deletion of List of science fiction video games

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Thanks for the notice. I've removed the proposed deletion tag, assumingly spinning it into AFD.PopSci (talk) 16:16, 27 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks. I will back off from editing it. PopSci (talk) 02:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Epically BTFO'd. Thank you! TrampStampVamp (talk) 04:37, 6 January 2023 (UTC)Reply