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Ratio and Pi
Hi there, re this, please see Ratio. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 08:47, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Marsy's Law
Hi Carleas, I see you are a lawyer and have recently made constructive edits to the Victims' Rights Amendment article. I posted a simple edit request at Marsy's Law last month asking editors to include recently enacted Marsy's Laws in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. I thought this might be something you may like to review based on your interests. Can you look it over? I have a conflict of interest that is fully disclosed on the Marsy's Law Talk page and I will not edit the page myself. Instead, I have worked with others in the past to update Marsy's Law and created Marsy's Law (Illinois) through WP:AfC, but have had trouble finding assistance from editors for the most recent changes. I would appreciate any help you may be able to provide or any advice on where I might be able to find help if not. Thank you. JulieMSG (talk) 23:36, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. --Bonadea (talk) 15:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I replied to this on your user page, 16:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it wasn't vandalism
I'm pretty amazed, actually. I agree that you tried to clarify. If you ever come back to Wikipedia, please let me know - you'd be a valuable resource in the much-benighted field of philosophy where people like your critic hold sway (and they are often undergraduates or folks without any background in philosophy). Hope you're still around!--Levalley (talk) 03:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

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 * Thank you, I was begonning to suspect that this is a contentious topic. Please reply to my comments on the RfC so that we may build consensus and clean up the article. Carleas (talk) 10:08, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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January 2024
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Shambuka. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.


 * "An editor who repeatedly restores their preferred version is edit warring"
 * Did you mean to post this on your own wall?
 * Carleas (talk) 16:55, 11 January 2024 (UTC)


 * You can reply at the AN3 report. ArvindPalaskar (talk) 15:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I think administrative intervention is overdue.
 * Carleas (talk) 15:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

 You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Shambuka) for a period of 2 weeks for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:37, 12 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, Is there a specific change you'd like to make to the article at the moment? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @ToBeFree
 * No, I don't have a specific edit right now, I haven't done anything with the article since the report was filed. Carleas (talk) 01:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah okay. That's fine of course – and I won't judge as appeals are reviewed by other administrators than the blocking one – but in general, unblock requests are the likeliest to succeed if they contain an example of a helpful contribution currently prevented by the block. Of course, for an edit warring block, that shouldn't be (even close to) a controversial contribution or a revert. And as the block is limited to one page, these appeals are rare and most are made just because the filer doesn't like to be blocked. Which is understandable but not necessarily the strongest argument. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 05:56, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * With respect, "an example of a helpful contribution currently prevented by the block" is different from "a specific change you'd like to make to the article at the moment". Were I unblocked, I would continue the work I've been doing gathering relevant sources on the talk page and trying to pick apart the disagreement that led to the RfC.  The research I've done as part of that process has led to many other edits throughout the article.  I would begin by discussing 'claim 2' here, similar to what I did with claim 1.  I'm also interested in aspects of the character mentioned here ; this page has been subject to a slow-burning edit war for over two years, and it struck me from the beginning of my involvement that it wasn't clear from the page why that was happening.  I made an attempt to include a discussion of that aspect of the character, but I now believe it was incomplete.
 * If I don't get unblocked, the article will be fine and I'll continue what I was working on in a couple weeks. But I was hoping to keep working on it sooner, and the research I've done will go a bit stale in my head as I wait. That is a negligible cost to Wikipedia and only slightly larger to me.
 * I've taken enough of your time, I appreciate you listening and explaining. I'm frustrated, but I get it.
 * Thanks,
 * Carleas (talk) 13:54, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * And now I see I can contribute to the talk page, so the cost is even lower. Apologies, and thanks again!
 * Carleas (talk) 14:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this is really limited to the article itself and doesn't prevent talk page discussion. I guess your proposed edits would just have been reverted by, who is blocked in the same way; the article would probably benefit from others being able to edit without interference of a few users who vehemently disagree with each other. If there is an uncontroversial change that can simply be made by anyone during the blocks, edit partially-blocked can help getting the change into the article through an independent reviewer who has likely never seen the page before. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:40, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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