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Ball-sack
Article's about a vulgar phrase, i.e. a fly's ball-sack, the part of the anatomy that bounces against the cunt during sexual intercourse. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:38, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

That is incorrect, the colloquial term is deemed appropriate for children in Germany (see the article) but “ball sack” would never be considered suitable in English. Now do you see? Glen Gormley (talk) 21:42, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Marking a major edit as minor after being warned before is unacceptable
And in fact you did it twice. Changing "warned" to "demanded" not only changes content it's a significant change. As was changing "white supremacists" to "Far Right figures". Editors should be able to ignore such edits knowing that they haven't changed the meaning of the article in any way. I have to be blunt here, if I see you doing this a third time, particularly with a contentious subject, I'm likely to block you. Doug Weller talk 13:18, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Doug, I’m not trying to be contentious or provocative, but in what sense is copy editing to improve the grammatical and semantic meaning not “minor”? In English you don’t “warn” someone *not* to do something in the abstract, you *demand*. The meaning of the sentence is unchanged. Similarly, what’s the difference between Far Right and White Supremacist? Aren’t they synonyms for “neo-Fascist”? My impression was that copy editing to improve the syntactical flow, without changing the semantic meaning, of a sentence is *minor*. So with no desire other than to clarify the motives for your overreaction, please will you try to justify your remarks? Thank you! Glen Gormley (talk) 15:38, 30 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I didn't see the above. "Warned" means if you continue something might happen. "Demanded" means you do this or else something will happen. In the second example the source said "white supremacists" - so we use what the source says, not what we wish they'd said. Doug Weller  talk 09:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


 * You did exactly the same thing recently at J. W. Dunne, while also engaging in a revert war. here is the page edit history which shows this. If you make any more contentious edits there I will report you. Meanwhile, I would most strongly advise you to lecture highly experienced editors less and to listen to them more; having ignored a warning from an administrator, you are treading on very thin ice now. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 21:06, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't understand why you didn't see the ambiguity you were creating. That was not a straightforward uncontentious change. How do any of these match the description you were given earlier, "a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content"? Doug Weller  talk 09:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Do you mean changing the ungrammatical construction “Irishman general” to “Irish general”. I see now that this is being considered contentious but I sincerely believed that I was merely correcting a minor grammatical error. To be quite honest none of this reaches the level where it deserves my attention, but please proceed as you guys see fit. Glen Gormley (talk) 20:09, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That excuse is not tenable. My reverts and associated edit comments made it clear to you that it was contentious. Yet you continued to reinstate it and mark it as minor. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 21:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020
Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Talk:Doug Weller. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. ''I should have warned you when you posted. '' Doug Weller  talk 18:37, 17 July 2020 (UTC)