User talk:Seadowns

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Ian.thomson (talk) 22:10, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Noble savage. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:44, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

June 2017
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, English language. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 17:06, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Julietdeltalima. An edit that you recently made to English plurals seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  00:52, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at English plurals, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 03:04, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Astronomica (Manilius)/GA1
Hi Seadowns; you may want to know that the article has been nominated for featured article status, and so if you want to make any comments about it, you can do so at the nomination page here: Featured article candidates/Astronomica (Manilius)/archive2. As a general note, it is preferable to leave notices on article talk pages (Talk:Astronomica (Manilius)) rather than on closed good article candidate pages (Talk:Astronomica (Manilius)/GA1)- comments are more likely to be noticed on the former! Josh Milburn (talk) 16:41, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

June 2019: The purpose of article Talk pages is to improve the article, not to express personal opinions
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Talk:George Steiner
As noted above on this page The purpose of article Talk pages is to improve the article, not to express personal opinions. George Steiner was a Jewish literary scholar who died very recently. On his talk page you have been adding personal remarks about him that are of a derogatory nature and are totally unsourced. This is unacceptable by Wikipedia conventions and may even give rise to a perception of anti-Semitic implications. I have removed these remarks. If you object to my edits you can take the matter to a notice board. If you continue I may do that myself. Xxanthippe (talk) 05:40, 17 March 2020 (UTC).


 * I have made no personal remark about him, but will make one now, and say he was stupendously brave in face of the foul trick Nature had played on him. Nor have I said anything related in any way at all to his having been a Jew. Seadowns (talk) 12:24, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with you. The fact that a reliable source such as the Times or The Guardian states something does not mean that the fact is necessarily true. Asking where they got their information from is a perfectly legitimate question. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:10, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

John Keats talk
Hi Seasdowns, thanks for your thoughts on the John Keats talk page. It's good practice and much easier for other editors if you could put back your comment, so that later readers can follow the conversation on the talk page. You could put a line through it using, if you want to, or just keep it in as part of a developing conversation. It's fine to make mistakes, that's what the talk page is there to explore. I would suggest replacing your comment. Best wishes. Anna (talk) 18:05, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

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My name change!
Because of a muddle over passwords, I now have to be called Esedowns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esedowns (talk • contribs) 22:51, 28 September 2021 (UTC)