User talk:TheOriginalAndrew8

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Bomberos
Hey, Andrew8. I just wanted to suggest that you move Bomberos (music group) to Bomberos (band) as most of the bands articles are named Name of the band (band). It's not necessary but you can do it if you want to so that there is a general way of band categorization. Thanks! Death2 21:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

And if you move Bomberos the talk_page will be moved automaticly so you don't have to move it too. Death2 21:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Dgta, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Image copyright problem with Image:NAVAREAs.jpg
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Sydney meetup invitation: January 2013
Hi there! You are cordially invited to attend a meetup being held on Thursday 10 January 2013. Details an attendee list are at Meetup/Sydney/January 2013. Hope you can make it! John Vandenberg 08:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia trainers requested in New South Wales
Wikimedia Australia is looking for experienced Wikipedians to help out at training sessions across New South Wales, in particular in Newcastle, Wollongong, Port Macquarie and in Parkes. If you're interested, the details are at the following link:


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We'd love to see you there! Lankiveil (speak to me) 13:09, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Sydney September 2013 edit-a-thon invite
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If you are unable to attend in person, we will also be collaborating online. Details and an attendee list are at Meetup/Sydney/September 2013. Hope you can make it! John Vandenberg 08:59, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Invitation
There is a backstage pass coming up to be followed by an editathon in the State Library of New South Wales on 23 November. This is the first time that an Australian cultural institution has opened its doors to us in this way and will be a special opportunity because the Library is providing: one of its best rooms; its expert curators (along with their expertise and their white gloves); a newly launched website (containing new resources); and of course, items from its collection (including rare and usually unavailable material) which we can look at, learn from, and use, to improve WP articles. For example, on the chosen topic (Australia and WWI), the Library holds many diaries and manuscripts from the period.

As you can see from the Library's project page, they have connected this editathon with their own work. They have already set out a wide range of resources to make things easier for us. Please sign up on the editathon project page if you can participate either online or in person with other Wikipedians. Hope to see you there! Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:11, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Andrew8. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Andrew8~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 21:55, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 10:28, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Edit warring
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement. Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing.  G M G  talk   18:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for edit warring, as you did at E-meter. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Alex Shih (talk) 07:25, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:35, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm just adding that if you had been a new, or relatively new user, that would have been the definitive end of your editing of Wikipedia. Such gross insults are absolutely not tolerated and have had to be deleted from the public record. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:38, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

My response to your arrogance
You people are a gang of thugs.

I added value to an article by adding content which people want to know about (as they have asked me for it), and I make it publicly available.

You people act as an immature, aggressive, arrogant, self-centered gang of know-it-alls repeatedly delete my posts; as if you hve some divine inspiration of what is right and proper. By doing so, you decrease the Wikipedia's value. You obviously spend most of your free time trolling Wikipedia to find passages you can delete. It makes me wonder how much other valuable content you have deleted?

Then you have the audacity to accuse ME of engaging in an "edit war"! If I engaged in an edit war, there would be hundreds or thousands of your edits deleted. I never did that once. IT IS YOU WHO ARE THE WARMONGERS.

The only response I made was on the page of a person who threatened me without justification; there was no other way to communicate to him/her. He/She was so arrogant that they did not think anyone should dare to contest his/her judgment.

And you are hypocrites. You say I should enter into dialog. You NEVER communicated with me nor consulted me, neither before deleting or banning me.

Stop your thuggish behaviour.

Your arrogance and presumptive behaviour is disgusting. By what measure do you think your behaviour is civilly acceptable? You attack others who do not attack you, and think you are justified in doing so?

Stop deluding yourself that you are adding value by "policing" Wikipedia.

Do you have the same behaviour in the real world? How many wars and "deletion from the public record" do you justify in the real world, because you DEEM someone attacked you, when they were really just defending themselves and their own efforts?

Do you wrought destruction in the real world too, by "policing" it too!?


 * Hello TheOriginalAndrew8. Wikipedia works by collaboration, and users are expected to compromise with one other and reach a consensus regarding article content. You have not been banned in any permanent way; you have been blocked for a period of one week, and after that time you will be allowed to once again edit articles and participate in discussion on article talk pages. Unfortunately, Wikipedia can have a steep learning curve, and what might seem normal in a different context can seem disruptive to others who are used to working in a collaborative environment. Conversely, what seems normal to experienced Wikipedia editors can seem exceptionally combative to users who are new to editing.


 * If you find yourself in a conflict with other editors once you return, the best option is usually to ask a third party. You may want to keep The Teahouse in mind, which is a forum specifically for newer editors to ask questions about editing, and always has lots of folks around who are willing to provide input.  G M G  talk   14:27, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Green Means Go: You are being a hypocrite. You talk about consensus, yet you threatened me without any consultation. Walk your talk! And quit feeding me a line of BS.


 * The intention was not to threaten, but to point you to our policy on edit warring in the hope that you would take the time to read it. Since you apparently did not, and apparently have not, you have found yourself blocked. If you do not, you seem likely to be blocked again.  G M G  talk   16:25, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

You can deny it all you want, but you words and actions were (and remains) a threat. As I said above, I did not pursue an "edit war"; I did not delete anyone else's posts. YOU are the aggressor. Why can you not see that when you destroy someone else's work, YOU are the aggressor, not them? Sometimes aggression is justified, as when someone is attacking another, but that is not the case here.

The best way to describe your "policy" that a person restoring their own edits is engaging in an "edit war", I tailor the quote from Dickens, "If the rule supposes that, the rule is an ass, a idiot." (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist) You take on the same moniker by "enforcing" it.


 * I get reverted all the time. It's part of the way the project works. If you can't get used to that, then you probably don't belong here.  G M G  talk   22:15, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Talk page access revoked
That's enough now, TheOriginalAndrew8. You can sit the rest of this short block out without making any inappropriate rants and further personal attacks. I look forward to an improvement in your collaborative spirit when your block expires. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:38, 29 October 2017 (UTC)