User talk:SlyGuyFox

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Enjoying Wikipedia is a little difficult when I have people like whoever it is who just jumped down my throat about a factual edit I made hovering & eager to assume I was acting in bad faith. I thought there was some kind of Wikipedia guideline regarding assumption of bad faith. SlyGuyFox (talk) 23:47, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Harper Woods, Michigan, you may be blocked from editing. ''You should probably have a look at WP:RGW and WP:POV. Gender is not meaningless. That is a POV.'' John from Idegon (talk) 23:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
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I have no idea what you mean by "disruptive editing", as this is the first I've heard of being accused of it, or of being accused of engaging in any kind of dispute, and I find your insulting accusation excessively confrontational. There are better ways to approach a fellow Wikipedian, I feel sure, than assuming bad faith on his part and insulting him. "Gender" is a sociopolitical construct dictating regressive, sexist behavioral stereotypes, and it has no place in an article about factual matters such as the composition of a city's populace broken down by SEX, meaning male & female. "Gender" is not synonymous with sex; sex is physical in nature, and sex is the term that is appropriate in this context. I find it difficult to see how sticking to facts regarding the sex composition of a city's populace has anything to do with POV.

All that said, you who are assuming bad faith on my part are obviously on a hair trigger temper-wise, and I don't wish to risk my editing privilege (because you clearly don't consider it a right), so I'll refrain from incurring your wrath with edits of that nature. SlyGuyFox (talk) 23:34, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Nice to be made aware I have people hovering over me who are ready to assume bad faith on my part & accuse me of disruptive behavior, by the way. Thanks for that. SlyGuyFox (talk) 23:39, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Oh, there IS still a guideline regarding assumind others are acting in bad faith! Given the accusation just thrown at me, I had to check to be sure. SlyGuyFox (talk) 23:50, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

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I made the edit that I did because I initially found the ship's name not italicized in the text of the San Salvador Island page. If what I did failed to solve the problem of italicizing the ship's name BUT NOT the prefix of SS, then something I don't know how to correct needs to be corrected in some location to permit that problem to be solved. I don't know what to do to solve it. SlyGuyFox (talk) 09:07, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

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Fine, I'll go back & remove the links altogether. Christ. One would think that if a bot could send me a message like this it could fix the issues, but apparently that's too much trouble. SlyGuyFox (talk) 15:01, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

November 2020
Please stop making edits like you have done here, here, here and here, adding so-called "necessary commas". These commas are grammatically wrong and damage the content. - DVdm (talk) 20:17, 20 November 2020 (UTC)


 * You're wrong! No instance you've cited is "grammatically wrong", and none is "damaging to the content. Please stop making false assertions, and please don't be intrusive as you've been here. SlyGuyFox (talk) 20:22, 20 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Warning: your next edits of this kind, will be considered vandalism. - DVdm (talk) 20:24, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Here's a little tutorial on comma use for you. This will show you why your accusations against me are false. https://www.myskillstutor.com/content/english/st_mobile/language/pun/punl9/index.htm?matchcode=PUNL9%23#:~:text=precede%20the%20state.-,A%20comma%20must%20follow%20the%20city%20name%20that%20is%20closest,needs%20a%20comma%20after%20it.&text=City%20and%20State-,Use%20a%20comma%20to%20separate%20a%20city%20from%20a%20state,that%20correctly%20completes%20the%20sentence. SlyGuyFox (talk) 20:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Why will my next edits of this kind be considered vandalism when I'vw shown you that your accusation is unfounded? What is your authority? SlyGuyFox (talk) 20:27, 20 November 2020 (UTC)


 * My mistake, and my apologies. I totally misread the intention of your edits. I'll undo my edits where you haven't done so yet. - DVdm (talk) 20:32, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * That's not what it looked like I did at the time. SlyGuyFox (talk) 06:16, 13 March 2024 (UTC)