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Traversetravis, good luck, and have fun. --E4024 (talk) 19:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

October 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page List of traditional territories of the indigenous peoples of North America has been reverted. Your edit here to List of traditional territories of the indigenous peoples of North America was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/pomo.html) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 14:06, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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August 2020
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November 2021
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Sariel Xilo (talk) 20:20, 1 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Sariel Xilo. Note: It's true that my Mystara edit I didn't add references; yet it's also true that the original three paragraphs on Mystara (before my edit) also contain *zero* references. Yet you have not deleted the original paragraphs!


 * Are you not familiar with the setting? Do you only delete the sentences that extend beyond your personal knowledge? But you have no problem with unreferenced vagaries that you personally know?


 * Should I delete the whole paragraph since it's unreferenced, and leave you a similarly terse note on your Talk page?
 * Something like: "Sariel do not leave three paragraphs unreferenced as you have, without citing a reliable source. Sariel, please review the guidelines."


 * I'm one of the main historians of the setting, having conducted and published many interviews with Mystaran designers from the TSR era. Everything I wrote in the Mystara section is true. Much of it is well-known "common knowledge" to Mystara grognards. Just because another editor doesn't know it, doesn't mean it's any less true than the unreferenced vagaries in the original paragraphs.


 * For example, why do you leave "Rome" unreferenced, but delete "Byzantium"? Why do you leave "Medieval" unreferenced but delete "Renaissance"? You leave "European" and "Asian" unreferenced but delete "African" and "Oceanian"? (Every Mystara fan knows that Ylaruam is partially an analogue of Arab Egypt (hence the pyramids!), which is in Africa. And that the Makai of Ierendi are native Hawaiian analogues.)


 * Still, I can provide references. That's fine. I'm just irked that while deleting my unreferenced (but true) paragraphs, you then revert to similarly unreferenced paragraphs! What are your personal criteria?


 * Traversetravis (talk) 02:53, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
 * So far, the only aspect of your edits that I've reverted are when you created headings & then dropped bare urls below them. When I've added content to this article, I've made sure to include references since this article was tagged in 2018 as having an issue with a lack of references. When you make edits on the assumption something is "common" fan knowledge without adding references, you're doing original research so I would suggest reviewing the No original research policy. If you have sources, please use them. Additionally, edits are judged on individual merits so you might benefit from reviewing WP:WHATABOUTX & WP:OTHERCONTENT (they're geared towards discussions about article deletion but do a pretty good job summarizing why we judge content on individual merits). For example, the second essay states: From the logical perspective, this argument is an example of the logical fallacy known as the fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as"). Sariel Xilo (talk) 03:39, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Ah, okay, I though it was you who reverted the fresh paragraphs I wrote on Mystara. In that case, my ire is misplaced. I didn't see a signature on the revert.
 * Yeah, when I originally posted just the bare links for Diablo II and Conan/Red Sonja, I was in a hurry - yet the links did show the entire product lines for those settings. They weren't "spam" in the sense of advertising or something. I was hoping someone would would tidy it up (by writing a sentence or two). But I admit that was sloppy of me. Fair enough. I did go back and write proper entries for Diablo II and Conan/Red Sonja. Traversetravis (talk) 03:53, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

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