User talk:Yestyest2000

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Hello Yestyest2000! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:17, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Julio Lamas -

Helms Foundation Player of the Year reference?
I noticed that you are the creator of the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year on Wikipedia (history), and the same article on hoopedia.nba.com (history). However, on neither article did you cite where you got your information. I've searched through the NCAA online men's basketball media guide and found no Helms Player of the Year list, and nor did I find a list identical to the one you posted when I Googled it. The only list I found from a third-party source is this, which only somewhat mirrors your list.

Would you please be so kind as to providing me with the reference that you used so that I know where it came from? If not I'm probably going to have to revamp the Wikipedia article to correspond it with the link I provided (and do the same for Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year). Thanks. Jrcla2 (talk) 14:33, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, we have resolved the issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball. Jrcla2 (talk) 01:06, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Some friendly advice
The material you are suggesting you are going to edit around (concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict), regardless of which article you edit the material into, has general sanctions which are applicable to that topic area. I suggest you make yourself aware of the general sanctions which can be found at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel_articles_4. Kind Regards, TarnishedPathtalk 09:28, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Unsolicited Suggestion: Take a Breath
I very, very strongly suggest that you take a few days & breathe. The sarcasm in your comments at Talk:List of Islamist terrorist attacks comes thru very clearly: You can't just assert that you've changed someone's mind, & you surely know that. If you make the change on Monday without further meaningful conversation, some editor will revert it (again, this is not a threat: I won't revert the change—it's just very predictable from the history of the page that someone will revert the edit). Given the reversion restrictions on the topic, you'll either end up right back on the Talk page, or you'll get into an edit war. You're creating a record that can very easily be read to demonstrate that you don't take the assumption of good faith seriously, & furthermore may be taken as evidence that you're not acting in good faith. If you get yourself a topic ban or other editing restriction it won't matter whether or not you were right.

There is another, more effective way to handle this which in the long run is also faster: Accept that the change takes time (there's no rule, but a week or two weeks for comment is not uncommon on contentious topics) & interact with people civilly. Nine times out of ten, if you're angry while writing on a Wikipedia Talk page, you're really just getting in your own way. Pathawi (talk) 16:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Talk:List of Islamist terrorist attacks. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:28, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Recent edits
Looking at the edit history of this account, I recognize that it is recently renewed editing after a long gap. I'm not sure how much policies and guidelines have changed in that time -- certainly I've seen some change all along the way, but it's hard to keep track of how it accumulated. Seeing your recent editing history on the Susan Sarandon, I'm going to suggest that you review the essay on the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle of article editing, and also our guidelines on avoiding trying to combine sources to make a point that neither made. Understanding that should help you on discussions of the edits you want in that article. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 08:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)


 * truth matters, let's go to the talk page. hopefully enough wiki editor value truth over falsehoods. Yestyest2000 (talk) 08:08, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
 You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for violations of Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:16, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Introduction to contentious topics
Selfstudier (talk) 19:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Introduction to contentious topics
TarnishedPathtalk 09:52, 28 March 2024 (UTC)