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Prez Debates ref
Hi,

You added a needed reference to the article on the presidential debates commission, but you left the contention that the arrangement is controversial unsupported. Does the book call it controversial? If so, the maybe You could add a page ref. from the book to the end of the paragraph. (I'm not disputing that it is controversial, since I personally am very much against it, but in Wik we are supposed to support such statements. What cheer, Kim

I was just quickly and surgically adding a reference to remove one. It does bother me that there is a "controversy" statement in a section outside the "criticism" section. I would like to rewrite the whole article (except for the "criticism" section I've been working on) so that I can in good conscience remove the non-NPOV heading at the top.

Lisa Biron and Alliance Defending Freedom
Thanks; good work. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  15:38, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

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Your recent edits
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United States federal government credit-rating downgrades
Great work on merging the 2011 and 2013 articles, and also on re-formatted the article into separate 2011, 2012, and 2013 sections. Gfcvoice (talk) 02:22, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

November 2013
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Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 20:02, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Runit


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Your ADF edit
I haven't reverted it although there are several things wrong with it, but have taken it to WP:RSN where I hope you will respond. Doug Weller (talk) 20:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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WP:CITEVAR
Your revert at Castling was bad. WP:CITEVAR doesn't apply here. was already used in the article so replacing  is justified in unifying the citation style in the article. Also cite book doesn't work with (try it, click on one of the old cite book links to see). Quale (talk) 05:00, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Also I should have noted that vs. doesn't qualify as a change in citation "style" (my language above was a little imprecise). They are both templates in the same series that render citations in the same style. Citation isn't any less precise than cite book. Cite book is a waste of time, since it offers no benefits over citation. I think it's largely a historical artifact before the fully general citation template was implemented, but I'm not an expert on the history of the citation templates. Citation is more modern and it works in combination with the harv templates by generating CITEREF anchors so the links work; cite book doesn't. Quale (talk) 05:06, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

LGM-30 Minuteman
Please don't restore material that is uncited. Either find sources for it or let it go. WP:V is the key principle here. --John (talk) 22:17, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Compromise?
Regarding your edit summaries in your recent reversions, you refer to a "compromise on the talk page". Could you please provide diffs? I don't see any such compromise on the two talk pages. Also, have you seen my edits at Talk:List of metaphor-based metaheuristics regarding the factual inaccuracy and WP:NPOV issues with the boilerplate text? And have you been following the discussion about this matter on Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents? —Psychonaut (talk) 16:39, 31 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Firefly_algorithm not the talk page. The article in its current state may not be NPOV, but in my opinion your edits today made it less so. Would like to discuss on Firefly talk page. Michaelmalak (talk) 16:55, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link, but I still don't see on that page where a consensus was established to add this particular boilerplate text on every page. I see that you yourself proposed this, and as far as I can tell one subsequent commenter opposed this proposal, and one partially supported it (saying only that the article should weigh both positive and negative information, not that the criticism should be emphasized and placed in the lede).  That doesn't really appear to be a consensus to me, but to the extent that it was, I don't think I violated it at Firefly algorithm‎, since I did not remove all the criticism but rather cut parts of it that weren't specific to the algorithm, and moved what remained to a dedicated section. —Psychonaut (talk) 17:09, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It would probably be best for the non-specific criticism to reside on a common page somewhere rather than pasted as boilerplate into each algorithm -- and then link to that page from each algorithm with a one-sentence description of the common criticism. Perhaps expand the criticism at Swarm intelligence into its own subsection (sibling section to Stochastic diffusion search, ant colony optimization, and particle swarm optimization)? Michaelmalak (talk) 17:27, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree that the non-specific criticism should reside on a common page—and indeed, User:Ruud Koot has already done this at List of metaphor-based metaheuristics. (Some other editors have complained about this, and I've tried to address their concerns, but I think the bulk of the content was fine as it was.)  I think it would be fine to link to this general criticism from any existing specific criticism discussed in individual articles.  How about I restore my edits to the firefly article, and add an introductory sentence to the "criticism" section that links to List of metaphor-based metaheuristics? —Psychonaut (talk) 18:07, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me, but I suggest repeating this recommendation on each article's respective talk pages and gather comments for a couple of days
 * Well, rather than having separate discussions on each talk page, I'll direct everyone to an omnibus discussion at Talk:List of metaphor-based metaheuristics. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:19, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Makes sense Michaelmalak (talk) 18:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
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Graph database
I mentioned you in relation to the edit warring by Tmobii at Graph database - link here -- HighKing ++ 15:23, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Reversion of My Edit to "Alliance Defending Freedom"
Michealmalek-

The following is a reply to your recent removal of the revision of the Alliance Defending Freedom page.

The link to the revisions in question is enclosed below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alliance_Defending_Freedom&type=revision&diff=766558500&oldid=766557069

The reason I reach out to you is because I do not see how this revision is justified. I have a legitimate interest in discussing the removal of my edit. As the section (line 11) involving the mission statement was grammatical, removing it violates traditional grammar rules, which state that direct quotations (which the mission statement is) must be enclosed in quotations.

As for line 30, the article in question actually has nothing to do with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADF, and is instead an assault on the Christian faith and the Conservative movement. Therefore, if any edit is to be made, would it not be removing the information that has no valid citation to begin with?

-AAE

AnimosityAnimalEdits (talk) 04:21, 25 February 2017 (UTC)


 * The only objection in the combined edit was "as well as various other groups". The existing cite is a primary source for SPLC, which is fine, but covers only SPLC. A reliable secondary source is needed to justify the claim that it is the opinion of groups (plural) other than SPLC. Michaelmalak (talk) 15:36, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Draft:List of retailers affected by the retail apocalypse
Howdy. I was looking at your AfC submission at Draft:List of retailers affected by the retail apocalypse and i had some issues i thought you should address first.

№ 1, if you look at the references, you see a couple that are not complete (i.e. "Gymboree"). Please complete these citations so there aren't big red errors.

№ 2, personally i'd like citations on every entry. I don't think i'm the only editor who feels this way. It's not a reason to reject the article, but unsourced entries will likely be removed by other editors.

Otherwise looking very good. You're nearly there! Nessie (talk) 14:57, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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Inflation article
Hello Michael. I understand that you disagree with my removal of the content about monetarist explanation of the recent inflation. However, once content has been challenged by reversion, as I have done, the next step should be for editors to discuss the content and associated concerns on the article talk page. Your edit summary called the text a "no-brainer" and though you may not have inteneded it, that comes off as dismissive rather than collaborative with respect to the issues I mentioned in my edit summary. Please review WP:BRD and please self-revert and join me and others on the article talk page, where I hope you will detail your views. SPECIFICO talk 19:34, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Michael, you're doing the right thing, and I think you're on the right track here. It's difficult to find the correct mix of sources the people around here support, but for this kind of article, they definitely exist. Fephisto (talk) 12:46, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Reverted Edit
Hi Michaelmalak,

I noticed that you reverted an edit I made to the Fred Fish article. It was a simple edit to add a comma after the year (2007) in a date reference that used the long date format (April 20, 2007). You commented that "the comma before a preposition is grammatically incorrect as there are not two separate clauses"

From a purely grammatical standpoint, your rationale is, of course, reasonable. The MOS, however, stipulates that there should be a comma after the year when using that date format because the last element is treated as parenthetical. This pattern is fairly common throughout the MOS (e.g., MOS:GEOCOMMA), although there can be some edge cases (e.g., the year is not considered parenthetical with the day month year style used outside the U.S.). I don't know why.

Please take a look at these two items in the MOS:

1. MOS:YEAR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Dates,_months,_and_years

The second general use row shows the long date format with the example March 12, 2005. It is noted that a comma follows the year unless other punctuation obviates it and also shows a dash following the year to illustrate that additional scenario.

2. MOS:DATECOMMA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Commas

With October 1, 2011, as the example, you can see where it is noted that the comma is required to treat the last item as parenthetical unless, again, followed by other punctuation.

I recommend that when reverting an edit which cites MOS items specifically that you should first, ideally, make sure that you have a detailed understanding of the style guidance that has been cited. Seemingly simple things like how commas are used can be surprising. Then, I recommend that you comment specifically in the revision why you believe the MOS applies differently. Or ask if you have any questions. Reverting based on experience/expertise from elsewhere (e.g., copyediting, other styles like APA) can easily result in a disconnect like this.

Lastly, and this is just my opinion, it's best not to revert edits made by other editors, especially technical writing matters, for any type of edit that you haven't already done yourself many times and/or otherwise know inside and out from a Wikipedia-specific standpoint.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Edward Bednar (talk) 14:24, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Reverted Edit
Greetings.

The phrase used by G. W. Bush is often and commonly attributed to the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655.

This is an error and is not correct.

The only direct (non-secondary) evidence linking Bush and Iran Air Flight 655 comes from the Newsweek magazine. The following articles such as "The Essay: Rally Round the Flag, Boys" by the Times merely built on it.

However, the primary source -- Newsweek's "Perspectives" section, where the quote was first published, is a satirical section of the magazine. It mixes cartoons and various quotes. The satire was that his phrase, while widely used during the presidential campaign, does not sound so good when used in the context of a tragedy, such as a plane crash.

The facts are that Bush spoke to Republican leaders on August 5, 1988. He used that phrase. During his entire speech, which was recorded by C-SPAN, there was no mention of Iran Air Flight 655.

The Newsweek published the quote in its satirical "Perspectives" section on August 15, 1988, while attributing it to a shooting down of the Iranian airliner.

"The Essay: Rally Round the Flag, Boys" was published almost a month later on September 12, 1988 and again attributes the phrase to Bush without any context or reference.

Consider this: if this phrase had actually been used by G. W. Bush in connection with the downing of Iran Air Flight 655, it would be on the front page of every magazine, especially those critical of him.

Therefore, I humbly revert your edit, No RS given that the quote attribution was a "mistake". The reasoning is provided above. 108.160.192.255 (talk) 03:31, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you
Sincerely thank you for your help on the television program “Mork and Mindy.” I imagined the language was initially written as it *was* a tv program as it has been over for 40 years. Sorry if this isn’t a place for giving thanks. Have a nice day! AtomBasedAdam (talk) 21:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)