User talk:Njamu

A belated welcome!


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Pincrete (talk) 12:19, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Just to let you know that I reverted your changes to the Srebrenica massacre article, but re-incorporated those edits which I thought were constructive. Some of the article phrasing would still benefit from careful copy-editing, which often happens with 'old' articles.

A few policies which you should be aware of are MOS:RETAIN, which crudely says that we retain the variety of English (inc grammar and spellings) in which the article was originally written - in this case it is UK English. We do this unless there is some compelling, intrinsic cultural connection to one region (such as Pearl Harbor/ Kennedy Center/ any NY theater - but not any British centre or harbour nor any UK theatre!). Also we never alter a quote unless we make it clear that we have done so, better to paraphrase and not present as a quote. Also the Dutch supreme court is a description of what is properly called something like "The Supreme Court of the Netherlands" - where we use a description, rather than the title proper, we don't capitalise. Best of luck. Pincrete (talk) 12:41, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi me again, most of your new edits are either positive or neutral (why is 'before' preferred to 'prior to', they mean exactly the same? Perhaps one is less common in the US, I don't know) but for example you changed the title of a UN report within one of the refs. How is it helpful to the reader to refer them to a non-existent UN report? What you changed to may well be what the report SHOULD HAVE BEEN titled, but not what it actually WAS titled.Pincrete (talk) 13:09, 25 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Grammarly suggests shorter sentences and on Wikipedia that’s what we should aim for. Clear, concise, to the point. Regarding the citations I might have accidentally edited something that I should not - I will take care not to edit citations (except obvious errors) or labels of documents. Regards Njamu (talk) 13:27, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Hajrudin Mešić moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to Hajrudin Mešić. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 03:04, 26 April 2024 (UTC)


 * No worries, will fix that one. Njamu (talk) 21:59, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

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You've edited the page Talk:Srebrenica massacre which has a very clear "Warning: active arbitration remedies" at the top about the expected standard of behavior. Your edit at includes:


 * The other thing is genocide denial by some of the editors here.

This is a very casual casting of aspersions against unnamed other editors, and is very clearly below the expected standard of behavior.

Please remove that. --Joy (talk) 20:20, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Unaware of Joy's comment above, I restored but 'struck through' this comment of yours and also my own response to it with the edit reason "Customary practice is to 'strike through' rather than remove retracted comments, otherwise subsequent text becomes meaningless". I realise that normally, editing another editors comments is strictly taboo, but in the circumstances, short of removing the whole inter-action, it was the only way of things making sense to others. I am just informing you of my action. I have no objection to the whole interaction being removed if you wish.Pincrete (talk) 04:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Pincrete yes, please feel free to remove the tangential discussion or move it here, if it's not actually helpful to the process of improving the article there, it doesn't have to stay on the article talk page. --Joy (talk) 07:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Personal attack and tangentialresponse removed in its entirety.Pincrete (talk) 09:10, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Not a personal attack. I certainly know wikipedia rules. Njamu (talk) 09:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)