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Nomination of United Nations in popular culture for deletion
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Tartan357 (talk) 02:59, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Warning: Don't remove valid !votes from AfDs
You have removed multiple !votes disagreeing with your own from multiple Ukraine/Russia-related AfDs. At Articles for deletion/Kherson Oblast (Russia):, and at Articles for deletion/Flag of Kherson Oblast (Russia). Don't do that. It is grounds for a block and you will be taken immediately to the appropriate noticeboard if you do it again. Tartan357 (talk) 02:55, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It was an obvious edit conflict over a single vote that the software didn't catch. Don't threaten me over software errors. Fix the problem. Don't delete my contribution while fixing it. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 04:03, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You did it twice in two different AfDs, and you didn't fix it. It is not my job to fix your disruptive edits for you—that's your responsibility. You also made the absurd claim that the Kremlin is a "reliable source". Seriously, don't mess around with the Russia-Ukraine stuff. Tartan357 (talk) 04:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Take it to an admin page or fuzz off. The first was fixed by someone else before I could fix it, and I did notice. They're busy pages right now, shit happens. Don't forget you deleted my vote as well and didn't come around to owning your mistake. You're hardly innocent. You do not get to tell me where I can "mess around".
 * The Kremlin is a reliable source about their own claims. Don't like it, I don't care. If they said they were annexing Mars, I'd vote to keep an article on Mars Oblast based on their own claims. Then I'd make sure the article made a mockery of those claims, but the territorial and administrative claims of a global power are notable. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 04:23, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * SchmuckyTheCat, if it was just an accident that you deleted my !vote then that's okay, I made the same mistake not that long ago and quickly apologized. But if it's happening frequently, I recommend using the Review your changes button before publishing an edit just to make sure no bytes got removed. Best wishes,  Vanilla  Wizard  💙 05:08, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The diff of the Oblast AfD shows my edit clobbered four different users, but I somehow added myself and two others. You weren't my target if four other edits were affected. I'm guessing the server lost session data. In any case, it was unintentional and fixed by another user quickly with no issue. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 05:16, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

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Nil Einne (talk) 04:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

The Special Barnstar

 * thanks. During this discussion I'm really amazed that sourced information is being removed, and then the term itself is being called "original research" while simultaneously, with no sourcing, those other participants are asking each other what a good replacement term is. I'm literally blown away. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 05:31, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I hear you. But when my gentle attempt to reach a compromise on the Talk page was met not with a discussion about that suggestion (good? bad? meh?) but with condescension and, at the noticeboard, a threat of blocks (!), I quickly decided to channel my inner Elsa and Let It Go. I haven't posted at (or even read) either location since, and I even removed the Meier page from my Watchlist. Good luck going forward. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:37, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I did appreciate your attempt at a compromise even if I disagreed with the usefulness of it. Clovermoss 🍀  (talk) 16:45, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

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Help:Whitespace
Dear SchmuckyTheCat. I read the section "Invisible comments" of the helpfile Help:Whitespace. I think you and Redrose64 are the authors of this section. I wonder why one should avoid spaces between text and comment or comment and text. I do not see anything bad happening when I do not follow your recommendations. You just say "Format the comment to avoid this ...". I do not understand "why". It seems the AutoWikiBrowser's General Fixes implements your recommendations and removes spaces between text and comment resulting in less readable code in the code editor. Can you please enlighten me. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Yes, it appears something in the wiki to html translation the current version of MediaWiki has changed, or maybe it's the CSS on Wikipedia. That doesn't mean it's not still a good practice because the wiki code that runs Wikipedia is used in many other places. We wouldn't want to break the layout of other projects by relaxing previous source normalizations. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 23:54, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

experimenting a little more.


 * blahblah text text
 * comment
 * moretext

Is ok now, and was not before (by memory)


 * blahblah text text
 * blank line
 * comment
 * blank line
 * moretext

This creates unwanted whitespace, then and now.

Dear SchuckytheCat, thank you very much for your kind reply. You seem to admit that spaces between text and comment do not greate unwanted whitespace and that there is nothing in the MOS that forbids such spaces, but at the same time you say you do not want to relax "previous source normalizations". Is this particular previous source normalisation prescribed somewhere else? I would feel that the entire section "Invisible comments" should be dropped from the page Help:Whitespace.I feel this warrants a discussion on the page's talk page. Thanks and best regars, Johannes Schade (talk) 19:15, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

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