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Richard J. Hayes (code breaker & librarian)
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Speedy deletion nomination of John T. Lewis (maths physicist, telecom pioneer


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Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I had to delete it as a copyvio. I agree with you that Wikipedia should certainly have an article on him, but you must write it from scratch. The source yiou used will be a good reference for it. However, a encyclopedia article is different from a obit in a professional magazine: Use his plain name, John L Lewis as the title of the article, (except please use his full middle name, as we have an article on a US general named John Taylor Lewis;   refer to him by his last name within the article, not his first name, and discuss his professional career, not his personal characteristics. List his major publications. And if any of his students are notable, link to their articles if they have them--or consider writing them also.  And don't praise him--let his work speak for itself. Look for other sources also. But you cannot use your own personal knowledge as a source--WP relies only on published sources.

Proposed deletion of J.O.(Seán) Scanlan


The article J.O.(Seán) Scanlan has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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3RR warning
Your recent editing history at Kevin Myers shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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April 2018
Hello, I'm Linguist111. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Peter Madsen, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Linguist un Eins uno 20:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC) Shouldn't the onus instead be to prove that Peter Madsen is a QUALIFIED engineer? I have read a lot about him, and he never qualified as an engineer (if fact most believe that he is not an engineer, he is a non-professional person ('professional' meaning one working to (approved/recognised) professional standards) working with things mechanical/technical). He really is an amateur engineering-enthusiast, or perhaps at best an 'amateur engineer'. All of these more helpful more accurate descriptions were reverted/blocked, and so I put in the incontrovertible 'unqualified engineer' (which I think gives him way too much credit). Can someone provide the citation to a reliable source that he is a QUALIFIED engineer? No, because he never qualified. There is something about 'proving a negative' which you will have heard of, and while it's not exactly the same here, it is incumbent on the people denying the word 'unqualified' to come up with the proof / citation that he is actually qualified!

--Donn300 (talk) 03:01, 26 July 2020 (UTC)== The Emergency ==

I am happy with the article about Michael Gambon just referring to World War II. However I am pretty certain you are wrong in your comment. People in the republic did then and for some time afterwards much more commonly refer to the period as the Emergency rather than the war. The war was something Britain and Germany were engaged in. Dmcq (talk) 13:45, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

That is not true, besides contemporary historical sources etc., I was very close to my grandmother, born 1900 (and many of her generation and afterwards) and they all referred to it as the war, they knew what was going on in the world! It is true that later comedy & commentary milked that phrase because of the name of the Act (& why wouldn't they). At time of writing there is a pandemic (plague?), legislation gives powers to authorities to shut businesses etc., but in the future people will probably still call it a pandemic, and not call it after the legislation, because there is no political axe to grind about this. But the reaction was different in the case of WWII because of interpretations of Irish neutrality. Just like the pandemic now, the people knew what was going on in the world then, and they called it the war.

Minor edit?
Hi! You flagged a recent edit to the Nyquist–Shannon Sampling Theorem article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_theorem) as minor, but the edit doesn't meet the "Minor" edit criteria (more info here: WP:MINOR). Personally, I avoid using the Minor flag unless I'm absolutely sure the label fits (correcting a typo, undoing obvious vandalism, etc.).

Cheers! &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 02:29, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

October 2020
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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''Please discuss at Talk:William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. I suspect a book review from 2002 may not be sufficient to overturn scholarly consensus.'' GPinkerton (talk) 15:32, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Length contraction; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that 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.

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