User talk:JackalLantern

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Hello... thank you for your contributions. Unfortunately, your addition of the categories Category:Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners and Category:Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners have been reverted. They appear to be overly specific and are perhaps better served by the existing Category:Emmy Awards winners. Thanks. --Ckatz chat spy  04:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi. Could you please clarify why you mention this edit as vandalism? --Verman1 (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. It struck me as a silly and disingenuous attempt to portray the city as historically and preeminently Azerbaijani, which isn't the case. I'm guessing that's why the modern Azerbaijani spelling was placed ahead of the Armenian? There was a substantial Armenian community in what is now Ganja, but this is mentioned in a separate section and the Armenian name of the city is not included in the introduction. JackalLantern (talk) 23:24, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * You can clearly see that in article [Kars], Armenian version of the name was placed, while there is no Armenian population in that region. But if you think that Azerbaijani name cannot be placed ahead of Armenian name, you just could change their places, instead of removing the information and calling addition of Azerbaijani version of the name as "vandalism" --Verman1 (talk) 14:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, and the most visible structure in Kars is still an Armenian cathedral (that now serves as a mosque). Maybe we shouldn't equivocate? JackalLantern (talk) 14:17, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

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February 2013
Your recent editing history at Hemshin peoples shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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Hamid Algar
I suggest that you need to consult the biographies of living persons policy. "Remove immediately any contentious material about a living person that is unsourced or poorly sourced; that is a conjectural interpretation of a source (see No original research); that relies on self-published sources, unless written by the subject of the BLP (see below); or that relies on sources that fail in some other way to meet Verifiability standards." The material in question is contentious and is poorly sourced and relies on self-published sources. Ergo, it shall be removed until discussed and consensus formed on the Talk page about its reliability, veracity, neutrality and appropriateness. polarscribe (talk) 06:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Henrikh Mkhitaryan
This will certainly NOT help to improve his reputation in Western Europe where he is now playing (especially the bit about "Defender of the Fatherland"). But never mind. You have your reliable source. Let's just hope no German journalist ever comes across that page. There were already enough scandal stories about foreign Bundesliga players who espoused their "patriotic" feelings too overtly...--SkippingABeat (talk) 21:00, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, it wasn't so much about removing the whole paragraph again but about the phrasing. Wouldn't it suffice to say that he met with the president (leaving out the minister) and received an award, without going into further detail? It's true that we can't pretend that the charity visit had not taken place but phrases like "Defender of the Fatherland" usually set the alarm bells ringing for any Western audience (though not always for a good reason). Only last year there was a great fuss about a Croatian Bundesliga player who had publicly displayed his sympathies for his national "heroes". I don't claim that the cases are similar but it would be a shame if such a thing would somehow damage Henrikh's reputation.--SkippingABeat (talk) 17:45, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Actually, upon checking your second source I realize we could have saved us both a lot of trouble by carefully examining the source first. According to your source it was the FFA president who received the medal "Defender of the Homeland". See also Another argument why it is always wise to treat information from blogs with care. I have corrected that now and hope you agree with the current version.--SkippingABeat (talk) 10:35, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Appeal Cihsai
Please note that administrator Tznkai has advised me as follows: diff.Cihsai (talk) 20:16, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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