User talk:Ninja247

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June 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Casablanca has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Cubs197 (talk) 07:32, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary for your edits. Thank you. William Avery (talk) 08:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for the Barnstar. It is a bit tricky with faith-based articles or pages dealing with religion - the important issue is that it must be written in a neutral (NPOV) way; many LDS & non-LDS happily work together to create what are fair, balanced encyclopedic articles. Certain words are avoided so that it passes this test of being non-POV (point of view), and that everything is qualified with mainstream, bona fide references. All the best, A Sniper (talk) 02:16, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Adding large numbers of links to pages that do not exits is not helpful for readers. Also keep in mind that Wikipedia strives to be neutral.--dbolton (talk) 17:46, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Most hymns and most people do not meet the notability requirements for an encyclopedia article. Adding large numbers of red links reduces the quality of the experience for the reader. Generally red links should be pretty rare and only link to topics that are clearly notable in their own right. See also Wikipedia:Red link. --dbolton (talk) 23:07, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to All About the Mormons?, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Cirt (talk) 11:01, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Bot

Hello Ninja247,
on Henrik's talk page you wrote "I want to build a bot. Where do i get started with that?" See Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot for a starting point. If you should mean a bot that is to use our statistical data, please refine your question/request. --- Kind regards, Melancholie (talk) 17:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

July 2009

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Copyright problems with Bryan Burrough

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PUA

I'd recommend you start off by looking at fastseduction.com (also these two commercial sites are good: rsdnation.com & vindicarlo.com) but most importantly find out about your local lair and join up with them :) wishing you the best of luck! any more questions feel free to ask away Mathmo ^Talk 06:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Your Barnstar

Please note that, before archiving, I placed your kind barnstar on my User page. Thank you for your encouragement. WBardwin (talk) 06:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

June 2010

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Goolsbee

I've reverted your last edit at Austan Goolsbee, since he hasn't vacated his position yet. -- Scjessey (talk) 12:06, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ben Swann

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Page move - John Beck

Hi - This is just a heads up that article titles are usually written in sentence case, so John Beck (American Football) should really be John Beck (American football) since football is a common noun. I haven't changed it yet because I'm not sure whether people will like the move in general. Some people prefer the term gridiron football, probably because the game is played professionally in both the US and Canada. I just thought I would give you a shout in case you see the title change. EricEnfermero (Talk) 21:49, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

thanks for the headsup. I agree with the capitalization. Of the three major sports(Baseball, Basketball) in the United States, football is the least that is participated in by Canadians. A professional team doesn't exist in Canada yet e.g. Futbal Americano or any other translation of that phrase is well recognized internationally as opposed to gridiron football. Gridiron football has strong connotation to the penal system.

Speedy deletion nomination of BYU Technology Transfer

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why was most of the article deleted? the sources were significant. I'm not sure what's going on here.

I deleted half the article because the content was directly copy-pasted from the sources. Content on Wikipedia cannot be taken word for word from sources. SorryNotSorry ✽ ✉ 07:19, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

then think about that next time it causes an article to be speedily deleted. All the sources were deleted. Edit the content if the deletion of there is a potential of deleting an article.

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"See also" lists

Hey, I see you've just lately been writing a lot of "See also" lists for various pages, where in many cases the items on the lists don't have much to do with the main topic of the article. I mean, for a lot of them I can see how the one would subjectively remind someone of the other, but that's not good enough grounds to connect them on Wikipedia. I presume you're not doing this to promulgate a theory of your own that they are connected, as that would be WP:OR. Everything on Wikipedia needs to be grounded in existing research. Hope this isn't too much of a downer. —VeryRarelyStable 04:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

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