User talk:Gregory Speck

April 2023
Hello, I'm Soetermans. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 23:52, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

May 2023
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 18:23, 28 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Ok, now listen, you were right about The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but now you're crossing a line, stop reverting ALL my edits, there's no justification for that, because I'll have to think you have some problem with me particularly, I'm spending time and energy here. There was no valid reason to revert my Pinocchio edit, Pinocchio is different in the Disney version than the Collodi's one, and there was no valid reason even for the Dumbo ones, that was an unnecessary and biased agenda-driven add written by some troll/jerk that wanted only to create avoidable problems and division, and there is nothing wrong in adding plot details to better understand story and characters, so I please you, I beg you, stop reverting all my edits. Thank you. Gregory Speck (talk) 21:15, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Couple things:
 * Your initial edit to Pinocchio did not include a source, so I had every right to revert it. I'm not the first person who has had to revert you for failing to provide sources.
 * You can't just remove or downplay the Dumbo racism controversy just because you don't like it. It is bad faith for you to assume that this information is written by trolls that are "agenda-driven" rather than editors who are going by reliable sources.
 * Many of your additions to the Dumbo plot section are excessive, redundant, or unnecessary. The Plot section is not meant to be a play-by-play of what every event that happens on screen, description of every character's thoughts or motives. or what other characters think about them. It's a concise summary of the events of the film. The film is barely an hour long, and this section is already longer than those of 2- or 3-hour films. Let's go over just a few of the "plot details" you've added:
 * Dumbo jumps off the shockingly higher platform and prepares to fly. Use of WP:PEACOCK words.
 * ...leaving him furious and humiliated and with his clothes shrinking. This isn't necessary to understand the plot.
 * Meanwhile, the clowns decide to increase the popularity of their fireman act by dangerously raising the platform Dumbo jumps from, believing that is fine because elephants are "made of rubber" and have "no feelings" anyway. It's already established the clowns are antagonistic; we don't need to say why they did it, only that they did.
 * from a make-believe burning building prop. The original text was  from a "burning building" prop. The reader can already understand that the prop is "make-believe" (a term we shouldn't even be using in an encyclopedic article) from the quotation marks.
 * ThomasO1989 (talk) 04:06, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Links to dab pages
There is an easy way to avoid linking to disambiguation pages (as you did to Margaret Wright from Dumbo): if you go to "Preferences", "Gadgets", and look under "Appearance" you'll see "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange" towards the bottom of the section. Select that tickbox, and whenever you Preview a page you'll be able to see whether you've accidentally linked to a disambiguation page. Thanks, and Happy Editing. Pam D  07:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you, my friend. :) Gregory Speck (talk) 08:33, 29 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Why have I been blocked?! Why all my edits have been reverted?! I am not a sock! Gregory Speck (talk) 10:20, 30 May 2023 (UTC)