User talk:PaddyMatthews

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Your cleansing tour
Normally one would discuss instead such a furious eradicating action as you did with Rhodesian topics. It’s obvious that you based your impression on the most easily accessible links, not the ton of scientific literature. I assume I’m way older than you and am not interested in a continuation of the bush wars on Wikipedia. But are your a historian? Do you base your view on what’s fact or only on the most effortless accessible links/sources.

Is is encyclopedic to ignore the relevant sources because they are not clickable within a second? I know this way of “fact checking” from my students all too well. It’s not good in any way.

About the Twitter thing I learned through you, thanks for that. But that site was obviously established not recently as I could see in the profile headline there.

I truly understand your well-meant motives, but I kindly ask you to not just snuff away facts. As I said, I will not start a fight here. But it would be nice, appropriate and helpful if you would accept the changes, stop the deletion process (which is falsely based on a quick check of some links) and we can discuss the situation of Zimbabwe and the Rhodesian diaspora is a civilized manner.

Otherwise I will withdraw from contributing to Wikipedia because at least for me that’s not the way how to work together in a an encyclopedia. I wish you a happy 4th of July. University Professor for History (talk) 12:18, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

July 2021
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Content disputes are not "vandalism"
Hi, "vandalism" on Wikipedia is defined as intentional damage to the encyclopedia. As there is no evidence for malice in this case, please avoid using the terms "vandalism" or "vandal" when referring to the dispute or involved parties. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:59, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Update after the deletion discussion was closed with "WP:G3": If it was actually a hoax created with the intent to test Wikipedia's mechanisms, then it was indeed vandalism. No worries. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:44, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, ~ ToBeFree - I came across the stuff by accident last night when following a link from the main page and I honestly have no idea what the intent was; the amount of stuff posted both here and in terms of fantasy websites and Twitter accounts was almost impressive.PaddyMatthews (talk) 00:04, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I have to thank you – without people stumbling upon such pages, the list at WP:List of hoaxes would probably be much longer. It also takes some courage to (correctly) assert that something is a hoax.
 * You may be interested in Sockpuppet_investigations/Klaus_Bells (or, when archived, Sockpuppet_investigations/Klaus_Bells/Archive). ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:45, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

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