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Your recent edits at Freemasonry
Hi Generic Character ...

A brief word of advice regarding your recent edits to the Freemasonry article. Most of them have been excellent, but the shear number of them is a bit overwhelming. Please slow down a bit so the rest of us can follow what you are doing and comment if needed.

One thing you may not realize is that many editors of this page are very reluctant to accept a whole slew of small edits by one user. We have had several anti-masonic vandals attack the page through the years, using the same edit technique you have used... going section by section and tweeking the wording. The big difference being that somewhere in the middle of their thousand and one smaller edits, they slip in the one POV edit that was their goal (say a statement that Freemasons are satan worshipers or something), hoping that we will not notice it hidden amoung lots of legitimate looking edits. Rather review every small edit searching for the one POV edit, the regular editors (and I hope you will become one of these) tend to simply revert to the last "trusted" version. I would not like to see all your hard work undone simply because another editor did not like the third of twenty edits, and reverted the rest away.

My advice: Either make a bunch of changes in one large edit, or make a few small edits and pause for comment before moving on the the next batch.

thanks, Blueboar 13:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Got your message...
I hadn't really done a lot of work on the Japanese WP article, as I don't know what the Japanese terminology is for most Masonic terms, but I'm not surprised that the article is POV. There is more of a tendency to accept statements as fact at times than to research, and all things considered, there aren't a lot of native Japanese Masons.

In other notes, as you have a PhD, you might appreciate the following technical discussion: your name makes you an "esteemed gentleman". Literally speaking, Hakase 博士 "esteemed gentleman" and bushi 武士 "a military gentleman" are related, but 士 in a compound doesn't always refer to a warrior as such; it is context-dependent, and a lot of it actually goes back to Chinese original usage. MSJapan 19:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Corks
Can you provide the name of the article, and perhaps page no from The Square Magazine, then drop it in front of the "The Square Magazine". I've changed this around to correct it as per Wiki style. I think this article (I haven't seen it) may have been used as fundamental reference for the Wiki article, so it should also go in the References rather than "See also". This is important because it's an indepepndent published source (albeit a masonic one) but it will help your case for the article not being deleted. Regards Escaper7 12:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi I can see you've provided the details, but you now need to add the references in to the body of the Wiki article. I've done one already, so has another editor.  Follow this format EDIT yr page to copy text:

which will appear as [1] or [2] or [3] Or look how they are inserted already. The problem with this article is since you wrote it, only you know where the information came from. EG: The idea and aim being to raise money for children's charities, and with Corkies having fun in so doing.  How do we know this? Who says so? or how do we check? In other words, provide evidence for your article. Masonic articles are subjected to very close scrutiny, therefore it will need to fit the Wiki format so as not to be perhaps, unfairly criticised. One of the most boring things on Wiki is trying to unpick someone else's work and backtrack for sources. If you don't provide these - then you're leaving yourself wide open to the original reasearch claim, or nomination for deletion. A couple of eds have added to the discussion and bought the article a bit of time, try to expand it if you can. Regards. Escaper7 15:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

GLRP
I don't want to move it anyplace, seeing as how there's no way to tell who is what, and I'm starting to think this is a case where somebody's trying to soapbox on WP. Most of the stuff in the article is unsourced, or it's from "internal documents". I would rather wait and see what happens than start movign things around. MSJapan 15:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I translated the English GLRP article for the German Wikipedia. For me, it would be interesting to know the reason of this schism. --SGOvD webmaster (talk) 01:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked for continued and unrepentant copyright violation, despite much attempt to dissuade you. We're a top 10 site now and really truly do have to take this stuff seriously. That you've been spending your time wikilawyering and trolling is just extra - David Gerard 22:05, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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