User talk:Ecthelion83

Edits to Dravidian languages
You added a cite needed to the statement that Dravidian languages are unrelated to other language families, but it may be worth pointing out that Dravidian languages are a primary family and have no genetic relationship whatsoever to other languages, and you mention it being liked to Japanese and Korean, which also represent different primary families from each other. If you're more interested about this topic there's a decent overview on the language family page if you're interested! Photonsoup (talk) 03:44, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Edits to Atakebune
Hi, your edits to Akatebune was fine. Just b/c the article itself is underdeveloped doesn't mean that you can't focus on adding stuffs about a particular subject related to the ship. Imagine the article as a featured article, many paragraphs long. What you wrote just now will be a part of that long article. It's ok. (Wikimachine 22:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

Greetings from WikiProject Korea!
Thank you for your recent contributions to Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining WikiProject Korea? It's a group dedicated to improving the overall quality of all Korea-related articles. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants.

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Hey, remember to sign with (~). Ok. You can basically copy and paste my user page & use it to your purpose if you want (then replace the infos).

You can go to here to get the user boxes that you need. You can also visit other Wikipedian user pages to get user boxes of their own. (Wikimachine 22:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

Thanks for joining WikiProject Korea, by the way. Also, Wikipedia uses the standard web code found here: 1 of our editors got permanently banned b/c of 3RR violation (7 times). I hope you don't do that. (Wikimachine 22:59, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

WP:3RR. You can revert or change back an article (when you're in a dispute) up to 3 times, but no more. Upon 4th time, you get blocked for 24 hrs.... when it happens again, 48 hrs.... again, more, again, more, again, more, until you get banned permanently. (Wikimachine 23:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

What you want to do is to become an admin. That's equivalent to "success" here, but it's really hard if you're a Korean or any other minority & have to deal with many disputes. The best way to be an admin is to be cautious in disputes not to take any side, always be smiling, never get rough, and then you become like user:Visviva, whom everybody likes and his WP:Rfa passed with no opposition. When you've been in Wikipedia for about 1 year & have made about 1000 to 2000 contributions, you can apply for Request for Adminship (RFA). (Wikimachine 23:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

And you don't want to make small contributions. I've found that completely useless b/c overtime they degrade & get lost by other complete losers or vandals (in disguise, who pretend that they can't speak english very well, but in fact they can & they love to vandalize articles). You want to work on 1 article at a time, completely develop it into a master english literature & then submit it as a featured article (so that it can be displayed on the main page) at WP:FA. Look at WP:CITE to learn about the citation templates that you must use to cite articles.

When you've stayed in Wikipedia for about 3 months, you can get these anti-vandal tools (i.e. VandalProof). They're fun to play with sometimes. (Wikimachine 23:12, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

Also, this is very important - don't make multiple accounts & use them for your own ends, or you'll get banned. See WP:SOCK for more info on that. (Wikimachine 23:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

By the way, don't try editing on Liancourt Rocks - that was one of your very first edits which is a very ominous sign. Ppl have so much trouble with that article. Just ignore it. the guy who got banned was editing on that article. I'll deal with it. (Wikimachine 23:20, 3 September 2007 (UTC))

The link you gave me, already the other party rejected it. Some stuffs you've got to know: WP:OR - you've got to cite all your edits (theoretically) good example is Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) that I'm working on. Look, you think all these rules will do you no good - trust me, ppl in disputes will use these rules against you whenever you violate them & make you look like a fool.

By the way, the way you write in discussion is perfect. There are some complete losers here who try to go for the French burgeois speech style & always says stuffs like please follow the guidelines, yes you are very welcome, however it is my belief that... or you're very welcome indeed.

They just sound ridiculous. Write naturally. Gl. Oh, this reminds me, there are ppl who always end their talk edits with these exclamations (I won't give you the one that I seen frequently b/c that would be considered a personal attack) like "best regards" or "happy editing!" & they just sound so sickening when they do that in a dispute & you know they're faking (& that they feel like coming to murder you). So, in a nut shell, write naturally. (Wikimachine 00:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC))

Your recent edits
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Citation
Hey, in order to cite, do this:

Create a section called "Footnotes" or "References" and then below copy paste.

And then, use form & also for a citation that's used repeatedly,

use & then all after, Thx. (Wikimachine 21:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC))

Example would be Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598).

By the way, rest of your sources (about 3 of them) are also illegit b/c they're Wiki articles & they cannot be cited upon each other. gl. Keep developing the article, but you probably need something more than just websites you should go to main public libraries in downtowns, universities, etc. in order to get more info. Actually let me find some sources for you, e-mail me (on my user page I have my e-mail address). (Wikimachine 21:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC))


 * One tip as well--the wiki articles should be source themselves, so you can usually get the sources from there (and if not, please add the tag to the other articles). --Cheers, Komdori 21:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi and thank you for your service
I popped over the to the NU Wikipedians list and immediately recognized Ecthelion from Tolkien. Figured the person connected to that moniker had to be interesting. Sure enough, another NU engineer who spent more time on south campus prowling around the social sciences than their advisor probably considered safe. Were you ROTC?

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool civilian whose family business was military service. So: thank you for your service. It may have been reservist duty, but you raised your right hand and placed yourself at the disposal of the tender mercies of the DoD. Were you in on Rumsfeld's watch?

Good luck with the MPH and Med School. I expect your service ethic will find ample outlet in public health. Cheers, MARussellPESE (talk) 03:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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WP:NAR
You seem to think that everyone will get rollback (your comment about 6+ million users with rollback). This is not the case. Only users that have been reviewed by admins (and found a clean record, no revert warring, etc) would get the tool. And administrators won't give it out to vandals. -- Cobi(t 07:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Ecthelion83. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that:

Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. βcommand 13:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Kofun period
Please do not remove or alter others' comments on article talk pages. This is not a personal attack, and expressing one's point of view is exactly what talk pages are for. If you have a constructive response to the comment, by all means post it. But you don't have the right to censor other users. Kafziel Ask me for rollback 07:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I edited it because the opinion posted was simply wrong. I had cited sources to justify my statements (which were more or less neutral sources too), and I was told that those sources were my own personal opinion. The argument simply ate itself and made absolutely no logical sense.
 * It's not up to you decide whether it makes sense. Talk page comments don't need to be logical, sensible, or even remotely correct. If you disagree, say why and discuss it. Kafziel Ask me for rollback 22:43, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough.Ecthelion83 (talk) 02:51, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:ANI

 * WP:ANI
 * Talk:Sea of Japandiff

Hi, Ecthelion83, I just come to inform you that you have been exposed to 2channel, Japanese famous bulletin board. Unfortunately, many Japanese editors seem to have abused Wikipedia with the threads for a long time (over 4 years!) The discussion set up three days ago, but I let you know of this now.

You may or may not know that you and I were accused of socking each other about one month ago. Anyway, I translated some of information, but the threads are too many, so if you have a time to look at it, please visit the links listed there. I also add the diff in case you come to the page much later. If it is archived, you would find it in No. 380 or 381. Or use Special:Whatlinkshere Thanks. --Appletrees (talk) 02:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, Ecthelion83. You can solve your query at this. Regards. --Appletrees (talk) 11:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Korean/Japanese similarities
Hi,

I'm writing about your recent edit to the Korean language page, where you appended to the phrase "[the two languages] share a number of possible phonological cognates" the caveat "(though a majority of them are likely due to local pronunciations of the Chinese characters from which they are derived)".

I confess to not understanding what is meant by "possible phonological cognates", but that notwithstanding... the borrowing of Chinese vocabulary that is common to Korean and Japanese is more than well-known among linguists and speakers of both languages. Any historical linguist who is taken at all seriously would recognize this and not use Sino-Korean/Japanese vocabulary in classifying either language. I think it is safe to assume that whoever identified the "possible phonological cognates" was careful to exclude Chinese-derived vocabulary. If this were not true, your observation would certainly blow this theory out of the water, but your observation strongly implies that Martin and Miller were, well, too stupid to realize that many words come from Chinese -- or that that's not a valid basis for claiming common ancestry. Rschmertz (talk) 07:29, 6 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Your remark regarding my recent edit to Korean language is partially accurate. The common cognates derived from the Chinese characters alone are not sufficient to support a common ancestry theory. This is valid even if Korean and Japanese pronounced the characters exactly the same with identical intonation, pace, and so on; for example, would the German and Korean pronunciation of words like "restaurant" be evidence of common ancestry because the pronunciations are similar/identical? Despite the fact that I think that Korean and Japanese do indeed have some common ancestry, the nature of this ancestry as well as a time of divergence (the sparse records that take note of events before the unification of Korea indicate that at the time, individuals living on the Japanese archipelago, at least those under Yamato jurisdiction, and those people living on the Korean peninsula were able to communicate quite well with each other without the need for a translator; these records also indicate that individuals could communicate if they were practiced in the "common speech," implying that the two languages had already begun divergence and their speakers had to use a mutually-intelligible "in-between" language for communication) are not at all clear. The comment about the "common speech" is a reference to a note made in either the Nihongi or Kojiki (I don't recall which) about how some Silla envoys to Yamato Japan some time before Korean unification mispronounced some Japanese landmarks because they were not practiced in the common speech.


 * I'm afraid you pretty much lost me after that first opening parenthesis :-), but from the part before that, I think we agree that shared vocab borrowings between languages should not be considered in determining genetic relationships between languages.


 * As for your suggestion that I imply that Martin and Miller were "too stupid" (your words, not mine), that is not true. I inserted my caveat before they were named, and in addition, Martin and Miller were named only as examples of researchers - I was not (at least not intentionally) trying to insult an entire group of academics with my remark. What do you suggest I do about it? Should I include the note in some other relevant section, or give it its own paragraph? It is certainly something that readers unfamiliar with the subject matter should know - maybe it's more appropriate in the "sprachbund effect" section (2 paragraphs down).


 * Well, I ask you not to get too hung up on the "too stupid" remark. This is not so much about insulting anyone -- I have no sensitivities whatsoever on this matter, and I don't know these guys from Adam.  But your qualification definitely implies that whoever mentioned the possible phonological cognates was relying heavily on Chinese-derived vocabulary.  I am simply suggesting that was not the case, for the reasons already mentioned (but see below).


 * As to what you should do: that's a tough one. Ideally, you would find out what cognates were suggested by Martin and Miller (or whoever).  Then, in an ideal world, you would find that either a) their cognate list consists primarily of the Chinese borrowings, in which case you'd consider the whole cognate idea complete rubbish and delete it outright, or b) said list contains no Chinese borrowings (my contention), in which case your qualification would obviously be incorrect.


 * In the real world, you're not made of time, of course, and it may be difficult to find this out.


 * Personally, I'm not clear that there are too many non-Chinese-derived cognates between Korean and Japanese (though I do know that the Tsushima dialect or "ben" of Japanese has borrowed many words from Korean), and I think that the grammatical structure presents stronger support in favor of a common ancestry/link between Korean and Japanese, as the presence of shared cognates alone demonstrates some kind of sprachbund effect at best. This is why I had also added that Korean and Japanese have "nearly identical" (since I am not familiar with the extent to which they are similar, I worded it this way, though from what I understand they're close enough to be identical) grammatical structures.


 * This is equally unknown to me. From what I can tell --  I have at least a basic knowledge of both -- there is virtually no non-Chinese vocabulary that seems to be shared between the languages, unless you count the (striking, to me) similarity in some of the grammatical elements (the noun suffixes -ga and -e have very nearly the same meanings in both languages, for example).  But from what I understand of linguistic theory (though I am not a professional linguist by any means), a sprachbund effect may indeed be the best way to explain these things.


 * Thanks for keeping me on my toes, by the way - I probably re-wrote my comments to you at least twice before I decided on saying what I wanted to in this way.Ecthelion83 (talk) 11:16, 6 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Glad to be making someone work :-P --Rschmertz (talk) 07:11, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Chinese revisionism
Hi Ecthelion83, just a little note to let you know to participate in the next rm for Wiman as the last one was unfairly closed. Your input on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Kuebie (talk) 01:32, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ecthelion83, I have made a new requested move. Please participate if you can. This time I'll be going for WP:COMMONNAME. Kuebie (talk) 21:25, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

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Capital letters
MOS:CAPS is explicit on this, "The adjective biblical should not be capitalized." Of course you are correct about Bible where it refers to the Jewish/Christian Bible. Dougweller (talk) 14:12, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Oops, I missed that (in other sections, biblical was also capitalized, so I was attempting to justify making my corrections consistent with those) -> thanks for the heads-upEcthelion83 (talk) 18:53, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

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familycolor altaic에 대하여
familycolor는 언어의 지역적 구분을 위해 사용하는 것이지 무조건 같은 어족만 묶으라고 있는 기능이 아닙니다. 한국어 문서에 걸려 있는 familycolor altaic 역시 알타이어족 가설이 신뢰할 수 있어서가 아니라 그저 지역적 구분을 위해 사용하고 있음을 알려드립니다. Altaic 외에도 어족이 아닌 지역적 구분을 위해 사용하는 familycolor로는 Amerindian, Papuan, Australian, Caucasian, Khoisan 등이 있습니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 10:24, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 더해서 강원도 영서는 경기 방언권에 해당됩니다. 흔히 강원도 방언이라 하는 것은 정확히는 영동 방언입니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 10:29, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 편집하기 위해서 위키백과에 가입해야 할 의무는 없습니다. 또한 familycolor altaic은 알타이어족 가설이 옳다는 뜻이 아니라 어디까지나 '지역분류'로써 사용하는 것입니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 13:50, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 또 수도권 거주자=경기방언 사용자, 호서지방 거주자=충청방언 사용자, 호남지방 거주자=전라방언 사용자가 아닙니다. 특히나 경기지방(수도권)의 경우 지역에 대대로 살아온 거주자가 사실상 없는 수준이고 인구의 대다수가 다른 지역 출신 이주민이기 때문에 더욱 그렇습니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 13:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 아니, 대한민국 정부에서 공식적으로 특정 한국어 방언 사용자 수에 대한 통계를 낸 적 자체가 없습니다. 거기다가 도경계와 방언경계가 무슨 정확히 일치하는 것도 아니고... 그런 상황에서 방언 사용자 수를 적는 건 독자연구입니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 15:58, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 그리고 familycolor altaic은 Turkish language, Manchu language, Mongolian language에서도 사용됩니다. 무슨 한국어나 일본에어만 특수하게 적용되는 색이 아니에요. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 15:59, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 그런 사용례가 틀렸다면 애초에 familycolor altaic이 왜 존재하겠습니까? 다시 한번 말씀드립니다만 해당 색은 언어의 지역구분을 위해 사용되는 것이지 알타이어족 가설이 신빙성있어서 사용되는 게 아닙니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 16:09, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Template:Infobox language family를 보시면 알겠지만 Altaic에는 '(areal)' 표시가 되어 있습니다. 한 마디로 말해서 단순히 지역구분을 위해 사용한다는 것이지 알타이어족 가설을 인정하는 게 아닙니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 16:11, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * familycolor altaic을 한국어 문서에 사용한다는 총의는 이미 확립되어 있습니다. 1과 2를 참조하시기 바랍니다. 비록 자신이 한민족 혈통을 가졌다는 것이 자랑스럽더라도 민족주의를 여기까지 끌어오지는 마세요. altaic이라는 areal classification을 사용하는데 있어서 한국어만 예외취급이나 특별취급을 받아야 할 이유는 전혀 없습니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 17:04, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 또한 방언 화자 수는 단순한 도 인구만으로 측정할 수 있는 게 아닙니다. 예를 들어 경상남도 서부(진주, 사천 등)나 경상북도 북부(안동, 영주, 봉화 등)는 일반적으로 알려진 경상도 방언과는 크게 다른 방언을 사용하는 지역입니다. 전라북도 북부(전주 등)도 마찬가지고요. 이런 거 고려 안하고 도 인구만으로 방언 화자 수를 이야기한다는 건 커다란 무리수에 가깝습니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 17:09, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 가장 중요한 게 대한민국 정부나 국어국문학계에서 공식적으로 방언 화자 수를 조사한다거나 한 적이 없습니다. 대한민국 국문학계가 이런 쪽으론 거의 신경을 안 쓰다 보니 그렇지요. 이 부분은 저도 안타깝게 생각합니다. --117.53.77.84 (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

We should block the IP user from english wikipedia, he is activly vandalising sourced content and ignore all discussions213.162.68.186 (talk) 15:01, 20 March 2017 (UTC)


 * He is participating in a discussion, which is how it is supposed to be done (I don't know where my responses have gone; I do recall having a back-and-forth conversation about this at the time, but my remarks seem to have disappeared, though I did eventually concede the point); therefore he (she?) has done nothing wrong (even if I disagree with the opposing position). We had a conversation (like I said, I don't know where my remarks have gone), and while I don't agree with the editor's position, I do understand the rationale. Unfortunately for me, there just isn't enough evidence/scholarship to demonstrate our positions either way, so the editor's argument is indeed valid on its face until a greater volume of scholarship can be accumulated. Your opinion, on the other hand, in particular with regards to possible punitive actions, goes against the spirit of Wikipedia editing; your edit history also suggests non-neutral/malicious intent, and I cannot take any remark you make seriously. Ecthelion83 (talk) 20:26, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

August 2019
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Korean cuisine in America
You mention Korean cuisine on your User page, and although I have no ties to Korea and am not of Asian descent, I'm interested in the culture (K-pop not so much, except as a phenomenon), and especially, the cuisine. (Also the language: I've taken an intro Korean course, and know Hangul, and a few greetings, but not much more!) Korean cuisine is one of my favorites, and although I've tried cooking Chinese (esp. Szechuan) cuisine myself and been happy with the results, I haven't tried cooking Korean dishes yet. My impression is, that although the tastes and sauces are quite different from Szechuan and other Chinese regional cuisines, there's one similarity in the cooking, namely that that there's a whole lot of prep time, and then once all the prep is done, everything cooks up very quickly; is that a correct impression? One big difference, I think, is dealing with all the different kim chis, which don't really have an analogy in Chinese cuisine, and I guess you don't really "cook" them so much, as open up all the jars and present them, I guess. (My fave Korean high-end resto gives you about 8 or 10 kim chees in those little dishes, and I could make a meal out of them with no main course.) But what about the cooked dishes, like dolsot bibimbap (my fave), or some of the spare ribs, jiap chae (sorry if my spelling is off) and many others. What Korean dishes do you like to cook, and if you have to substitute American ingredients for Korean ones, how do you manage? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:24, 5 April 2022 (UTC)


 * That's...kind of a lot to put on my talk page, and a lot to discuss.
 * That said, prep time is definitely a hurdle that I think most people new to East Asian cuisine face, but that is 1) true to anyone who is new to a type of cuisine, and 2) relative to experience (i.e. if you know what the procedure is and have the ingredients on hand, prep time is dramatically reduced). Kimchi as a whole is a different beast because it requires a degree of fermentation (which, depending on who you ask, does or doesn't get included in prep time). The cabbage (or radish, or whatever vegetable you choose to use as a base) needs to be pickled at least overnight, then strained, then seasoned with the requisite spices and sauces (e.g. garlic, powdered red pepper, fish sauce, and so on). Even so, freshly-prepared kimchi takes some time (a week or more) to truly "ripen," so to speak, and reach the flavor that is familiar to most non-Koreans.
 * With regards to the variations of Chinese cuisine, particularly those relevant to Korean cuisine, I would direct you here, if you haven't been there already: Korean Chinese cuisine. Chinese restaurants in the United States that advertise as "Mandarin" cuisine (I have not seen any in the US outside of the Chicago area and one location, Charlie Kang's in East Lansing, but I imagine the LA, NYC, and Atlanta metro areas would have at least one such location) typically will also serve Korean Chinese cuisine, though the vast majority of Chinese restaurants in the US are of the Szechwan variety.
 * Korean cooked dishes, in my opinion, don't take more or less prep time than those dishes of other regions, again assuming one has the ingredients nearby. Bibimbap (비빔밥) only requires, at minimum, pressure-cooked rice, sesame seed oil, and a few varieties of "herbs" (나물; "herbs," at least the English terminology, is not actually adequate to describe the vegetation included in bibimbap). Some will also top that off with a sunny side-up egg and some other ingredients, but you get the idea - for most Koreans bibimbap is one of the simplest dishes to prepare. Kalbi (갈비, the ribs to which you refer) is really just beef (not pork) ribs that are cut in that way, and are typically grilled, and preparation is as varied as the number of people who grill it, though most people will only use salt (or seasoned salt) as preparation (I also douse it in lemon juice, usually freshly-squeezed). With regards to japchae (잡채), in my opinion the meat (should you choose to have meat in it) takes the longest to prepare, followed by the noodles, but after that it's really just stir-frying/sautéing to desired consistency.
 * Personally tteokguk (떡국), yookgaejang (육개장), kalbi, Korean-style roast beef, and naengmyeon (냉면) are probably my favorites; of those, kalbi and tteokguk are the easiest and least time-consuming to prepare (tteokguk's only prep time involves soaking the rice cake slices in some water prior to boiling, and maybe chopping up scallions/green onions prior to boiling; kalbi literally only requires the ribs and a means to cook them, i.e. zero prep). In terms of ingredient substitution, many of the ingredients are not specific to Korea/East Asia, and those that are more prevalent there (e.g. sesame seed oil, certain types of noodles, fish sauce, and the like) generally lack substitutes and thus must be sourced from Korea directly or from an East Asian grocery in the US, which was more challenging outside of American metro areas when my parents and I first came to the US (i.e. the mid-1980s) but now is quite simple (as all of that stuff can be ordered online).
 * Hope that helps.Ecthelion83 (talk) 13:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Never change an alert. Note that this talk page does not belong to you and certain things can't be changed. Doug Weller  talk 16:16, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Apologies. I would suggest you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abortion&action=history and tell me where in that history I am. I couldn't find myself there and I couldn't find it in my contribs. As for "recent," tell me how you define "recent."Ecthelion83 (talk) 16:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * As I said on my talk page, it is topic areas, not articles, and Project Veritas is in both areas. I suggest you read the alerts again.  Doug Weller  talk 17:17, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Just looked more closely at the talk page. Now I understand. Thanks again for the heads-up.Ecthelion83 (talk) 17:28, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Consensus
Please read wp:consensus (as I have asked you to elsewhere) as when we use it it does not mean what you think it means.

You also need to read wp:tenditious wp:bludgeon and WP:DROPIT. Slatersteven (talk) 18:03, 9 February 2023 (UTC)


 * 1) You have not discussed wp:consensus (the only thing I can see that you have discussed is wp:rs).
 * 2) Perhaps you should take your own advice and consider WP:TENDITIOUS yourself. I am trying to have a discussion on the talk page based on what I can verify as fact. Consider WP:GOODFAITH.
 * 3) I'll cite WP:DROPIT back at you: "'Just drop it' is not a very useful response in either case."
 * I am going ask that you don't post on my talk page again, other than to inform me what conditions apply with such a request. Ecthelion83 (talk) 18:11, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

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