User talk:Charlesdrakew/Archives/2019/April

Repeated deletion of text on Wikipedia page on the village Terling

Why do you consistently remove information about the life of the village? You have deleted it wholesale on the premise that it is 'unsourced trivia'. First: all information on Wikipedia could be adequately described as trivia. What is trivia, if not information that is mildly interesting? I can't understand why you believe you have an absolute right to unilaterally remove information from the page simply because it is not of interest to you. The purpose of you characterising 'information' as mere 'trivia' is clearly to belittle it, but there is nothing objectively less valid about the text that you are repeatedly removing than any that you have not deemed, in your sole opinion, to be 'trivia' and therefore unworthy of you. Consistently removing text that is pertinent and accurate simply because you do not like it is mere vandalism. You are not the sole arbiter of what does and does not belong on that page, you act imperiously but without mandate, and your personal prejudices are not relevant and should not enter the equation. The second half of your pretext for removal is that it is 'unsourced'. In answer to your valid criticism, in my latest edit I inserted a large number of sources. Frankly, I did not expect it to make any difference, and my suspicions were confirmed by the rapidity with which you again vandalised the page.

I ask you now, please to leave the page alone, and to makle constructive and useful amendments, rather than simply destroying other editors' work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.240.116 (talk) 09:44, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

I have been editing Wikipedia for 12 years and made over 50,000 edits. I am not going to be told what I may or may not do by an IP with a few edits. Please add your talk page comments at the bottom of the page.Charles (talk) 12:20, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Charles, no one is telling you want to do- I merely request that you stop doing it. The fact that you have been editing Wikipedia for 12 years is not really relevant- it doesn't give you any special rights. You seem to feel that you have a sense of entitlement just because you have done this a lot. The frequency of your posting and editing is irrelevant- an amendment is either pertinent or it isn't. The fact that the only grist you can add to your mill is to aggrandise your own importance by proclaiming your 12 years of editing/meddling, and belittling mine because I have the temerity to be but an infrequent editor is akin to a playground argument that "You have to do as I say, I'm older than you". Congratulations on your 12 years of deleting other people's content from Wikipedia. You must feel very proud and fulfilled. Unfortunately you have mistaken your self-importance for genuine importance: you have no authority here, you're just a meddler like the rest of us. Meddle usefully or kindly desist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.240.40 (talk) 10:48, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Homeward Bound Article

Please stop undoing my edit's regarding the station that it is regarded where Paul Simon wrote the song Homeward Bound unless you can provide information that Ditton station IS NOT the main line to London and that Widnes station is NOT the Liverpool to Manchester line. Paul Simon would logically have travelled to Ditton station as he was travelling to London, not Manchester. Surly you understand this. My cite provides information regarding the Liverpool to London line. Steved1973 (talk) 15:11, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Of course I understand it. I am not stupid. You cannot say Simon wrote the song at Ditton on that basis. It is original research and unverifiable without a reliable source saying he was there. For all we know he may have gone to the nearest railway station assuming there would be trains to London and thought of the song before finding he was in the wrong place. This was before information technology, mobile phones and the internet.Charles (talk) 20:41, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Banastre Tarleton

You reverted an edit I made to the Banastre Tarleton page on the grounds it was unexplained. Yet I did explain it in talk, under "Robert Bass biography." The nicknames for Tarleton are are not historically factual, but twentieth century inventions.Polkadreamer (talk) 01:35, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

You could have explained that in the edit summary.Charles (talk) 10:28, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

45596, 48151 & 61306 info

Info/references regarding the locos moves to their respective sites is included in the updated info. 45596 also worked it's debut railtours from the KWVR on the 9th & 16th Feb.http://www.bahamaslocomotivesociety.com/

How long is this source page likely to endure before link rot sets in? This is ephemeral information and not really encyclopedic material. Wikipedia is not your or your organisation's blog.Charles (talk) 10:48, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

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