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Capital punishment
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Hi. With [ this recent set of edits], it looks like you have removed large portions of the Capital punishment article without any explanation. Are you planning to rewrite this deleted material and/or restore it to a different place in the article? If you object to this material and intended to remove it, you need to explain your reasoning (preferably on the article's talk page); otherwise, you may find others misinterpreting your mass deletions as vandalism and undoing your work. I strongly recommend you say something relevant to this on the article's talk page ASAP, before making any further changes to the article. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:57, 14 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I admit some images were inadvertently removed. You can very well restore it. Suresh 5 (talk) 06:06, 14 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Also, a section "Ancient Tang China", was removed because it does not provide world wide view of the subject. I think my exp would solve the prob. I will add reason before further edits. Suresh 5 (talk) 06:09, 14 July 2013 (UTC)


 * It's getting late for me, and I need to wrap up for the night, so I really can't work on this right now. I've put a note on the article's talk page in hopes of getting input from some other people.  I'm not sure, BTW, that removing large sections of an article (over 8K bytes of text) because you feel the material could be written better is the best approach; unless the old text was horridly objectionable, it would probably be better to let it stay until you have something new to insert in its place.  Concerns involving WP:WORLDVIEW are not generally grounds for massive deletion of text, unless the problem is truly egregious.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:34, 14 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I concur with Richwales. I have reverted the edits in question. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 16:36, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * Note to self: I [ fixed this problem] on 13 July 2013. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:40, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

AN case about Baboon43
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