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Armenian Genocide

I see that you've just edited many words in the article from Turkey/Turkish to Ottoman Empire/Ottoman where appropriate. I agree with your edit, but I would like to advise you to bring it up on the article's talk page next time, before making such an article-wide edit. Armenian Genocide is a hotly contested article, with many disputes bordering on edit wars. So please, be cautious. Aecis ^{Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984.} 00:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your understanding. I am an avid historian. I do believe in neutrality of any wiki article. Most of the external and reference links seem to be biased. I did not want to add fire to the controversy. I have not touched to the "quotations that calls Ottoman Empire, Turkey (even though the word was literally made official through a joke about an animal by British politicians)" and tried to make myself as neutral as possible and at least give the article just a little more creditability by stating that it was Ottoman Empire not Republic of Turkey before 1920s that has done these acts. I do not believe I have done anything to change the meaning of the article at all (or anything controversial for that matter) so I did not care to add a comment and add more fuel to the fire. Thank you for being understanding. P.S. Heck of a user page. MKS 18:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Kindness Campaign!

Just my way of saying thanks to newcomers to the Kindness Campaign... a delicious home-baked chocolate chip cookie! Yum. :D  ♥ Kylu  (talk • contribs • email • logs • count)

links to cedar city online

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 05:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I live in Chicago, I do not live in Cedar City, I dont own that site. The guy did the only research for history of those small communities and actually showed up in google for the keywords in those communities' histories. Who in the world gives you the right to accuse people who put valid history content about small communities as a spam. How dare you sir just simply delete content references. ALL CONTENT REQUIRES REFERENCES. MKS 18:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

The links are to a commercial realtor site, which does not qualify as a reliable source. Feel free to remove any information that you feel is not properly sourced. Thanks, OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 18:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

How am I supposed to find a more reliable source for a 200 people town other than flying to Utah and going to the local historical archives. The guy actually did some great research. What happened to accept people's goodwill first. Good luck expanding Wikiproject Utah, I just wanted to give a lending help. Geesh. MKS 18:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Türkiye Portalı

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WikiProject Spam

Hey there! I saw you reverting or removing linkspam. Thanks! If you're interested, come visit us in WikiProject Spam so we can work together in our efforts to clean spam from Wikipedia. --A. B. ^(talk) 03:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Most of the ongoing activity is on the talk page, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam, not the project page. --A. B. ^(talk) 03:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Cities Participation

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CHICOTW

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New WikiProject Illinois Collaboration Division

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Robert College has been nominated GA

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Southern Utah Real Estate links (second warning)

Despite your edit history of removing spam links, this is now the second time that you've added commercial real estate links to sites related to the same individual (Sam Dodd, Cedar City). First time; second, [1], [2]. Please do not add such links again. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 05:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jamie, I am a big anti-spam guy as you saw in my history. And I know you are the admin and what you say goes. I do random searches and edit all types of places (not just Utah) but it is just one weak spot of Wikipedia - How can I possibly make an edit to improve any area when there is absolutely no information reference other than this gentleman's websites with tons of unique and legitimate content about these areas in google searches in terms of history, economy or other important info on the town. These villages (of less than 1000 people) barely have their own websites and there is no way the small town articles will move out of being a stub if we strictly follow the wiki rules. Show me any other resource, I will gladly put up everything. Either way Utah is just something I randomly input and not my wiki priority. Anyhow again it is your call and I have no intention of getting banned from Wiki after working so hard to improve it. Have a good day. MKS 18:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

A Google search for Toquerville Utah history pulls up many links before the commercial real estate site in question; the second one is from a .edu domain. I find it odd that on two different occasions you added Southern Utah related links from different websites owned by the same person. Folks can draw their own conclusions; in any case, please don't add links to Sam's real estate sites again. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 18:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

It was a matter of trust to content as I went through pages and pages of content rather than a personal knowledge Utah or this Sam character. As promised, I will put in the necessary information to improve the stubs with the authority sources you have mentioned. Sorry for wasting your time with this issue. I have nothing but good intentions. As you saw for yourself my action was not one of malice and the input of info was not just unnecessary spamming but information. I hate the fact that my name gets stainedover this minor change. But you are correct, I would have behaved the same way, just read the below article on my user talk page on Casey Serin article right under this discussion you will see that I am in the same boat as you are in terms of erasing commercial links as some people see a commercial real estate link that someone else is seeing as a "resource" and I don't agree. Never ending battle of Wikipedia referencing lines but in this case you are right I am guilty about something that I have been trying to prevent the whole time. I do apologizeMKS 18:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem. You've made a lot of good contributions to the fight against spam. Incidentally, I agree with your removal of some of the realestateabc links on the Casey Serin article. Though there were intended to be a "source," they did not mention Serin by name, so I'm not sure exactly what they verify. Zillow or any number of other commercial sites would give you the same info. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 02:45, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Casey Serin

You removed links that show transaction history for Casey Serin and his properties. As you can read on the talk page, Saranary asked if we could start citing the specific transactions, and REABC is one such site that allows this. Please do not delete again, Saranary and I have that particular page well under control --Jerichohill817 12:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Jericho the fact that your user description is about maintaining one single article of all the millions shows to me volumes about your intentions of spam in regards to Casey Serin and related links. The whole article is a ridiculous publicity stunt IMO.MKS 18:36, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

That you'd say something of that doesn't bode very well for being unbiased. Yes, I am trying to maintain this article. Yes it is alot of work. How is the article a publicity stunt? Look where Serin has been covered, these aren't little newspapers. If you had read the talk page, you'd have seen that I've actually been working with Saranary and he/she has been very helpful. It was Saranary's request for sourcing that you deleted, I just helped find some sourcable material. --Jerichohill817 21:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

Just wanted to say, you are one of the most relentless anti-spam guys I have met in geography and real estate articles. Feels like you are everywhere at once. You deserve this barn star.SpammyLinkMonster 21:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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Hi. I was wondering if you'd be interested in setting up Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Turkey), based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). Now it's not a contest in itself, it's designed to motivate people to inspire others to improve content and build something which demonstrates the hard work going into the country which is visible. The focus is more on quality improvements but new articles are welcome too. Eventually a Turkish National Contest could be created to fuel it, like Wikipedia:Awaken the Dragon, in which contestants can choose to keep the Amazon vouchers themselves to buy their own books for more articles or put them into book fund to help editors further improve Turkish-related topics by giving them the books they want. It will begin though as purely an improvement drive. If interested, or you think anybody else might be interested, alert them and sign up on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey talk page at the bottom. Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:12, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:19, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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