User talk:Kureu

Racist
The question is not whether Pascoe is Aboriginal or not. Rather the question is, why are you so riled up about it. Because you're a cowardly, racist flog. While you're getting all hot and bothered about a minor nitpicking, we'll keep winning the culture war ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.52.208.66 (talk) 05:37, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Kureu! Thank you for your contributions. I am HiLo48 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! HiLo48 (talk) 06:06, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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February 2020
Hello, I'm Victor Schmidt. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Bruce Pascoe, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The burden is up to the person introducing the info, not them who question that. Victor Schmidt (talk) 07:12, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — MarkH21talk 07:44, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome Kureu. Sorry to see that your first few edits as a registered user have all been reverted. Unfortunately, new users editing contentious articles (even if you didn't know it was) tend to be regarded with suspicion. Your edit on the article's talk page was presumably from frustration, but it didn't help your cause. The Tasmanian Times article already references the chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, Michael Mansell, issued a three-page statement on the issue, saying that he does not believe that Pascoe has Indigenous ancestry, and he should stop claiming he does. The best way at the moment to improve the Pascoe article would be to add more information about his work and involvement in the community to other sections of the article. Then people won't feel like the "Identity" part is being given undue weight. Now that three different people have reverted your contributions, it would probably help for you to propose new material in a new section of the talk page first, to help build confidence in your motives, along with contributing to less-contentious articles (even just fixing spelling errors) to show that you are not just motivated by one issue (WP:SPA). Again, welcome, and I hope this hasn't scared you off. --Scott Davis Talk 09:03, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It must also be said that snide Edit summaries alleging a far left bias in Wikipedia will do nothing to help build confidence in your motives among other editors. I can assure you that there are editors here with biases from all extremes of the spectrum. The quality of your contributions is far more important than fighting political wars. HiLo48 (talk) 22:02, 3 February 2020 (UTC)