User talk:Aruffo

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Minor edits
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Hi
It might help you to appear as more of a serious Wikipedia editor if you have at least something on your User page so that it doesn't show up in red everywhere you edit :)  DRosenbach  ( Talk 06:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

OCD, notable cases
As you may know there are numerous cases where notable cases of a disease is given, such in the featured article of Alzheimer. I can see no reason why this is not appropriate for OCD.--Ekologkonsult (talk) 06:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok User:Aruffo, but where is that discussion re Princess Alexandra of Bavaria? Perhaps hotable historical cases are less significant since they were never diagosed "correctly". Or maybe we can all agree that OCD did not really exist before the 1970s? Or do we just say "so what"?


 * Thanks for the reply. Sorry I asked. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:46, 20 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Um, why do you think that I want David removed? Did you not understand my last post? Did anyone before 1970, wikinotable or not, have OCD? Please explain how we can tell. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:12, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Sight-Reading Link
Thank you for helping to keep wikipedia spam free.

Your removal of the un-discussed external link to practicesightreading.com recently added by 67.190.125.21 was well justified and consistent with article and wiki guidelines on un-discussed external links.

However, your simultaneous removal of the external link to sightreadingpractice.com was not consistent with the guidelines since that link had been available for discussion at Talk:Sight_reading for two months. I assume this removal was inadvertent and not intended to be a breach of wiki "discuss before delete" etiquette. The error is understandable because of the confusing similarity of the link URLs.

If you really did intend to remove sightreadingpractice.com, please move Talk:Sight_reading back to the Unresolved section of the talk page and present your arguments to the community. In the mean time, I will restore sightreadingpractice.com, while letting your removal of practicesightreading.com stand. We are looking forward to your future contributions to this article. Thank you. Qazin (talk) 21:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Mfield (talk) 00:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Notable OCDers
I've added a topic #25 to the OCD talk page- thought you might want to weigh in. OckRaz (talk) 09:55, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Skype
You might note that at least one of your recent edits also introduced some extraneous text around some numerical characters. This may be due to a combination of your browser and Skype trying to identify and highlight telephone numbers. Thank you.--Rumping (talk) 14:10, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Please explain your edits
You recently made significant changes in the OCD article but left no explanation as to what you did or why. It helps the editing process if you communicate with the rest of those working on an article by explaining your actions. Joja lozzo  18:19, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

On Ear-Training
So you feel I went too far with my change of the opening paragraph. That's OK as long as the prior paragraph was not restored. I accept that at least the essence of my correction still remains, and have no interest in an edit war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emdelrio (talk • contribs) 20:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Ear-Training
Are you shitting me? You delete a reference to a free ear training software but you're ok with the page mentioning only commercial softwares? Either you're working for the people behind Auralia/EarMaster/whatever either you're some kind of bot. In the future, use your brain, thanks. I already discussed this with GraemeL, I wish you wiki bots would just think before reverting edits, if you're to lazy to do the work properly (enquire about what GNU Solfege is for example) just do something else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.228.56.15 (talk) 23:29, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Ear-Training and COI
I note that you have disclosed that you have are the author of commercial ear training software and that you run a number of websites related to the topic. I also note that you have in the last 24 hours been involved in a reversion war which started when you removed sourced content from this article that deals with software packages. I am not passing judgement on the validity of any concerns that you may have with the content of the article, but the community has strong guidelines on conflict of interest to prevent editors from getting involved in the kind of dispute you are now embroiled in yet again. I have not had time yet to fully read all of the previous discussion that you were party to on this article back in 2008, but it is clear from reading your own admissions on your involvement with commercial products that you need to tread very carefully when editing this and other related articles. I would suggest that you immediately cease any edits that directly affect sections of content that concern other software packages, and confine yourself to bringing those sections up for discussion on the articles' talk pages where edits can be made by an uninvolved third party after consensus is reached. Continued editing, and especially the removal of sourced content when you have a self confessed COI is only going to cause continued disputes with other editors and likely result in an escalation of the situation. The only way out of this is consensus and discussion, however lengthy and tedious that may be. Mfield (Oi!) 20:00, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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October 2014
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 * In addition, please stop indiscriminately adding hyphens to compound modifiers. Not every compound modifier needs one; please see English_compound. I have reverted most of the ones you added to VHS as they were not necessary to avoid ambiguity. Jeh (talk) 01:37, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I must take issue-- although not umbrage-- with your assertion that I add hyphens "indiscriminately." Although I agree with you that hyphens in certain of the instances I've added them may be argued as not strictly necessary, you will see that they are nonetheless correctly used in each instance.  If they don't need to be there, I'm sure I don't care.  Poking in hyphens as I poke around Wikipedia seems to be a minor habit I appear to have acquired recently.  I imagine the only reason I'd make even a minor objection to a reverted hyphen would be if it really were an error to not have one.  aruffo (talk) 06:21, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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