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Edit warring on Shaun King (activist)
You appear to be significantly over 3RR on that article. It does not seem to be legitimate to claim BLP exception for your repeated reversions to insert "false claim" when none of the versions have ever said or suggested the claims/allegations were true. Please stop editing so aggressively. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 20:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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Also known as
Could you please move it back and discuss. I thought we had all agreed to use "also known as" when discussed at the Denali talk page. The common name is Mt McKinley... it is still called Mt MvKinley by most of the US population, so it is not in the least "formerly). Officially it's Denali, but many things in life have other names they go by that aren't official. We don't call those formerly. If you have a disagreement with it could you self-revert and please bring it to the talk page and change our minds? Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:04, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Your statement that the "common name is Mt. McKinley" or that "still called Mt. McKinley by most of the U.S. population" is unsourced and unsupported. The mountain was formerly called one thing, it's now called something else. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 23:06, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, I would have said 99% know it as McKinley and wouldn't know where the heck Denali was. We wear different color glasses on this, but I thought I'd try. Have a good one. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:23, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Denali has been the name of the mountain for thousands of years before anyone showed up to slap the name of a president on it who never even visited Alaska, much less saw it. It's been widely known in the U.S. as Denali for decades, and only petty politicking from Ohio politicians kept the change from being made official. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 23:50, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. The thread is Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Thank you. &mdash;Skyllfully (talk &#124; contribs) 02:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Re-NewsIt! Speedy Delete
FYI Re-NewsIt! has been tagged for speedy delete. I have contested.--Nowa (talk) 21:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Skyllfully
So, who is the owner of this blatant sockpuppet? I figure you might know since you're the focus of his tiresome vendetta. Guy (Help!) 17:36, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I am not a sock nor sockpuppeteer, what evidence do you have? You can even commence an investigation (which will do you no good) and request CU (CheckUser). Please stop wildly accusing. &mdash;Skyllfully (talk &#124; contribs) 22:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You are very obviously not a new user. Your behaviour indicates that not only are you not new, you have brought old battles to fight. Guy (Help!) 22:43, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm a new user to Wikipedia, I have a lot of past experience on wikiHow (and I'm still on wikiHow), which is built mainly upon the same values as Wikipedia. I was able to easily adapt when I came here... &mdash;Skyllfully (talk &#124; contribs) 23:31, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

CONFLICTS!
AHHH!!!! I am trying to create the page! I keep conflicting with your edits!!! If you don't mind, hold off for 10 minutes? I've got about 20 tabs worth of sources up on my screen for the Valley Fire. Pretty please and thank you! -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:29, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, er, I created the page and I have no problem sharing the edits, but the edit conflict is because you ended up editing into the page ;) I just fixed the bits that came from my original page, and I'll hold off for a few minutes :) NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:32, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Yea well I've been creating fire pages all day!!! (Said in a high pitched, mocking a whiney 4-year-old voice). Totally want to share!!! Give me 10 minutes? I've got 9:37 PST. Give me till 9:47? Pretty please! -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:36, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Didn't even need that long actually. She's all yours. Once you are done, remove the WIP template from the top? Also, just a piece of advice, when you respond to someone on your own talk page, if you start the message with it alerts them. That way they don't even have to check their watch list to see if you responded. Just a nifty feature. Anyway, thanks for getting the page started! Sorry we conflicted... I've been working on 2015 California wildfires all day. Scary shit.... Hope you are well! -- Zackmann08  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:43, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Total curiosity question. Are you up in the area of the Valley Fire? I'm curious what your interest in the topic is. I've been watching some of the coverage... Absolutely terrifying. This may be one of the most destructive fires in state history at this rate. -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 07:37, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I work for a federal land management agency and am a collateral-duty wildland firefighter with fireline experience; I'm not in the Valley Fire area but major wildland/WUI fires anywhere are of interest to me, and particularly California fires (I grew up in the state). You're right; it's not going to be as bad (I think, unless it really goes nuclear toward Calistoga & Lakeport) as the Oakland Hills Fire in terms of dwellings destroyed (not quite the same density) but in terms of level of destruction of communities... the Periscope streams from downtown Middletown are simply fearful. The whole town's gone. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 07:40, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Oh wow. That's sounds like a fun pair of jobs. I'm down in the Santa Barbara area and do fire photography as well as software development. I was just watching those Periscope streams. really scary shit. :-\ SBCFD sent a strike team up there that should be getting to base camp right about now. Keep in touch? -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 07:58, 13 September 2015 (UTC)