User talk:72.234.220.38

Close paraphrasing
That is simply mild close paraphrasing. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:26, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

May 2016
You were previously warned of the same here  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 02:29, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Please be much more careful. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 02:32, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello . I've done one more pass over the text.  It's probably the best I can do without changing the actual meaning of the data presented by the original referenced secondary source.  If you feel yet more is needed, it will probably be up to another editor.  Also, not that it matters, but compared to a plethora of other articles I follow, to me it now has far less original source "feel" than they do.


 * btw, I saw that you may have used Twinkle to block my static-IP for a while? "(Your IP address has been blocked from editing. (TW))"?  That would have been a bit quick, no?  This certainly would have overstepped the Wikipedia Policies on the blocking of any good faith editor, especially after an editor was quickly & actively working to correct an issue. I wholly support your efforts in making Wikipedia better and keeping edits within policy and am also certain you know that you, yourself, must do this within policy.  As my edit was not blocked, it could have just been an "oops"?  Regards – 72.234.220.38 (talk) 09:33, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

January 2018
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 * Fully within Wikipedia policy. Video is (C) by the The Columbian who control that Youtube channel.  See: Wikipedia:Video_links

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Joseph Warren into List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:45, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Interesting, thank you for explaining this . This policy is newer or "deeper" than I've been involved with in past editing.  I certainly would have added a citation to the copied paragraph, if one existed in the original one.  I was unaware about using a copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination, should have added a note in the edit summary for sure. 72.234.220.38 (talk) 01:39, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

April 2020
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 * Thanks for pointing this out  The text for the short tributaries section I've been creating for this article came directly from another Wikipedia article.  In this case, from the West Little Owyhee River article.  It seems I simply failed to also move over the source acknowledgement reference at the same time as it had been placed further down in that article's text.  Great job catching this.  It seems I also made a similar omission on the sentence added for the Little Owyhee River and now have corrected that too. . —

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May 2020
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 * Wow, I admire your citation-dedication . 😉 But you're right, it is policy - even on an article like this one, which is almost totally lacking references and the ones it has point to dead webpages. Guess we have to start someplace.  Even to add a single "*". Regards.  – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 08:26, 10 May 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

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Paging User:Walor
Hello - as you do not seem to read/reply-to messages on your User talk:Walor page, I thought I'd try contact you from my User talk page. Will this work? This is in reference to this question I placed on your page. Regards. – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 08:00, 21 May 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

June 2020
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A barnstar for you!

 * Wow, bestowing a Barnstar Original_Barnstar_Hires.png on a lowly IP editor like me? I'm honored, thank you! 👍 I do try. – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 01:18, 6 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░
 * It's no problem - feel free to ask if you need anything -- you should consider making an account if you ever want to edit protected pages, shame they don't let good IPs be autoconfirmed. Ed6767 (talk) 01:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Will do. I appreciate the offer! I consider making an account every decade or so... been on-n-off Wiki editing since 2005. Well, maybe I consider more often than that as us lowly IP editors get constant CAPTCHA challenges to make sure we're not a spamming-bot. 😟 It would be a bit tricky to autoconfirm good IPs I feel.  It probably could be done with SSL type certs but it would be confusing for many editors.  It's also simpler to just make an account! One day maybe.  Having my edits anonymously scattered across 5 IPs over the years is a bit sad.  Regards. – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 11:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

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June 2020
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 * The media's [Fair Use rational] of it being a short snippit, with a low sample rate and other listed reasons should allow this file to remain.– ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 06:08, 13 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░


 * Hi Binksternet, I hope you can impart some of your knowledge on me regarding this subject. Enlightened by your warning, I've just spent way too much time reading much of the Wikipedia docs on copyright within the project, cases where exceptions are granted, fair use, etc.  And I'm still a bit confused.  Is there a chance, even with what would seem to be proper fair use documentation, that Wikipedia could still "get in trouble" for media content in articles?  I ask because I see conversations saying that more than one use of copyrighted media content, even under fair use, may not be permissible.  All the discussions I saw seemed to be about images, but I'm assuming it could apply to audio in the same way.


 * I confess my ignorance in not knowing that for each use of non-free-to-use media file, there must be a fair use justification on the media file's page. But even now that I've done this, and feel it's correct based on both documentation and other editor's examples, I worry that it may not be enough.  Do you know if there are documents or talk-pages that state what items should probably be used in one, and only one, article?  As always, my wish is to improve our encyclopedia and the idea this could be an issue is something I'd like to be clear on. Thanks in advance. – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 08:37, 13 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

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 * – See Talk – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 08:37, 13 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

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 * again – See Talk – ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 09:35, 19 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

RPP request
I am using hatnote to listen and noticed your edits and when adding some pages for protection noticed this: Requests for page protection being used. Jerod Lycett (talk) 03:19, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jerod Lycett, appreciated. 👍 I'll hop over there and try enlighten the discussion a bit more.– ░▒▓ №∶72.234.220.38 (talk) 03:23, 19 June 2020 (UTC) ▓▒░

Talk:Prince George of Cambridge
FYI, a new image has been added to that discussion. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 17:02, 6 August 2020 (UTC)