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I have removed the speedy tag from Template:Waterbodies of Connecticut because it was making Connecticut appear in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion‎. If you think that a template should be deleted, please visit Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 21:34, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Eastmain: My apologies. I did not intend for the Connecticut article to appear in that category. I just thought that the template itself is duplicative considering that all of the links to other Wikipedia articles included in the navbox are now included in more precisely defined navboxes than that template. I'm not very familiar with the bureaucracy of this website. – CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 06:17, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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		For your thorough expansion of the legality section of National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I was not aware of the depth of the treatment the legal questions have received from reliable sources, particularly the CRS report; in retrospect, the article was certainly lacking in that area before your expansion. Thanks! —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 14:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also from me for your great work, which has much improved the article. KarlFrei (talk) 11:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you created Template:House of Stuart Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of Tudor Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of York Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of Lancaster Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of Plantagenet Lord High Treasurers, and Template:Pre-Plantagenet England Lord High Treasurers. However, they are practically useless because they use titles instead of names to identify the holders of the office. Thus, under Template:House of Plantagenet Lord High Treasurers - the section for Edward III lists several Bishops of Lincoln - but the reader is required to click through to the various linked articles to discover that they are the same person. Same thing applies with the Edward II section where there are two Bishop of Winchester listed, but only by clicking through to the linked/piped articles is it clear that they are two different people. Worse, on that example - one of the bishops (John Sandale) is also listed earlier under his own name - thus obscuring that he did hold the treasurership prior to becoming bishop. These links fail WP:EASTEREGG and MOS:PIPE, which helps keep confusion down for the readers. They need to be fixed and brought into line with those guidelines. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ealdgyth: I've removed the ecclesiastical titles and added lineage position numbers for peers. I believe that should be sufficient to make the links consistent with MOS:PIPE and WP:EASTEREGG. CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 16:21, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why would you not just link the article title? There is no real need for the pipes anywhere in those templates. We don't generally do such pipes in other navigation templates. See Template:Dukes of Norfolk or similar... Ealdgyth - Talk 16:30, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ealdgyth: The MOS:PIPE states "it is possible to choose more specific... display text for the intended context", which I think implies that using more specific display text where possible is preferable. The MOS cites piping "Henry II of England" as "Henry II" as an example. Likewise, most of the article title links in those templates are longer than necessary to get across who the person is, and because the peerage titles are probably more familiar than any individual holder of the title, it is more intuitive to list them that way, also in keeping with the MOS:PIPE section about intuitiveness. CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 17:26, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please read our policy on how to handle disagreements. You were bold, you were reverted, you discuss. The explanation you added broke another policy namely that on synthesis -----Snowded ^TALK 09:20, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: Considering that the content that I added included multiple references with direct quotations, it is quite easy to tell that you did not review the content that I added carefully enough to recognize that it did not in fact violate WP:SYN but instead that the text that was added was both correct and explanatory. I will discuss that more in full on the Ulster Protestants talk page. Additionally, it seems to me that your revert was an abuse of the WP:BRD cycle and you should review WP:Revert only when necessary. - CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:58, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: And it also appears that I have been blocked so I can't explain why my edits should be retained. - CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 22:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: A response to my comments on Talk:Ulster Protestants would be appreciated and appropriate. - CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 00:16, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's a little difficult to respond when you are on a flight and trying to sleep. I can't see anything in the block log for you -----Snowded ^TALK 07:03, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: I apologize. I assumed you were still logged in and not on a long flight. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 16:48, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I'm BusterD. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Ulysses S. Grant, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. As a user-driven database of graves, Find-A-Grave doesn't meet the criteria for reliability established at WP:IRS, despite its usefulness in such matters. I've taken the liberty of removing your recent insertion. BusterD (talk) 10:15, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@BusterD: Apologies. I was unaware. I don't need guidance. Just polite and honest folks such as yourself to articulate when something I've done isn't up to snuff, why, and to do so for the right reasons. (And possibly somewhere where I can find a reliable source for those specific ancestors of Ulysses S. Grant, if you have any suggestions. I purchased Ron Chernow's recent book and was surprised to find that it didn't mention his mother's ancestry at all.) -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:13, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you taking feedback in the spirit in which it was given. I'm not saying that I'm the authority on this subject at all, and I don't deny the usefulness of the Find-a-grave site, especially when pictures of gravestones are attached to entries. There is some material on Grant genealogy available on google books. Grant worship was societal back in the day as much as Lee worship was and is these days. This site seems useful, and this book would be helpful. I encourage you to discuss this material on the talk page before reinsertion. There are editors who spent long hours scrubbing and pruning this (then bloated) page to a more reasonable size, then citing the crap out of it prior to promotion to FA status. I'm sure some of those page stewards will want some input on additions of large blocks of text which may be considered to be of dubious value to the main article. I could see a sub-article on this well-documented subject based on the genealogical material clearly available for consumption. Again, thanks for taking my reversion kindly. I'm still happy to help if I can do so. BusterD (talk) 22:57, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I should have reminded you, there exists an Early life article on the subject which would benefit greatly from additional research and citation. BusterD (talk) 23:03, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

close, but hey you got the cigar - some of the articles titles and lead sentences leave you off the hook - there were some rushes that developed into sustained and long term high value production fields... :) JarrahTree 23:51, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

eh, fair enough :-) btw, here's the standard awful warning about our cryptocurrency articles - David Gerard (talk) 16:38, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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@Diannaa: The content I added was copied from the political views section of Seth Moulton's Wikipedia article, which as per the article's revision history, has been included in that article since its 30 April 2017 revisions. The web page you cited in the edit summary as a copyright violation was posted on April 18, 2019. It's pretty hard for something to be a copyright violation when what is supposedly being plagiarized was published two years later. I'm reverting your revert. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 17:15, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Kia ora!

Thanks so much for all your help in editing the 2020 stock market crash article. Due to the fact that this is a global event rather then centric on the America, I've changed the layout of the article and attempting to globalized it. I've notice quite a bit of the work you've done has being based on America, including adding the table summaries of the Dow Jones (etc). Please use 2020 stock market crash in the United States to describe the impact in the United States, rather then the main article which is globalized. I really appreciate all the work you've done for the article! Foxterria (talk) 06:20, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You've added a section on "Philosophy/Literary theory" to this template, and included a number of philosophers who clearly predate the concept of evolutionary psychology. Can you please explain why? WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 10:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiDan61: Because all of these philosophers originally articulated the assumptions about human psychology that would ultimately be examined experimentally by evolutionary psychologists. Adam Smith's book The Theory of Moral Sentiments supplemented David Hume's ideas about moral sense theory that was researched experimentally by Jonathan Haidt, and Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France influenced his research on political psychology as well. Emile Durkheim's texts on suicide, religion, and social anomie influenced Haidt's research on both happiness and moral psychology along with Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, and Haidt mediated a joint American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution task force on poverty citing Robert Putnam's Our Kids research about the breakdown American civic life in working-class communities and its implications for democracy.

William James is the founder of American psychology, and his research into psychology was influenced by Darwin's research on the emotions, and James would later be cited by Randolph M. Nesse in his emotions research for making distinctions between mood and emotion as well as his critique of previous basic and dimensional models of emotion in Good Reasons for Bad Feelings. Hobbes and Kant in Leviathan and Perpetual Peace make many of the conjectures about violence, war, and democracy evaluated by Steven Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Pinker cites Thomas Sowell's trilogy on culture in addition to Jared Diamond's in The Blank Slate. Both Pinker and Haidt cite Sowell's A Conflict of Visions for Sowell's articulation of the tragic-utopian conceptions of human nature dichotomy for moral psychology.

Sowell's ideas about culture being a means of transmitting dispersed knowledge in society in the same way a price system does in a market economy was an expansion of the same topic as articulated by Friedrich Hayek in "The Use of Knowledge in Society" as "spontaneous order" (who in turn was re-articulating the same principle as articulated by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations as the "invisible hand" and the statement by Adam Ferguson that societies are the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design" in his History of Civil Society), and is the information signaling system analogue in economics to Richard Dawkins' and Daniel Dennett's ideas about memetics being an information science theory of culture and cultural evolution. Sowell, along with James R. Flynn, emerged as an early critic of Arthur Jensen's ideas about race and intelligence, and both later were critics of Richard Herrnstein's and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve.

David Hume was identified as the founder of cognitive science by Jerry Fodor, and Hume's ideas about aesthetic sentimentalism in his Four Dissertations were re-articulated by Denis Dutton in The Art Instinct. Edmund Burke continued the sentimentalist tradition in his Enquiry. The evolutionary psychology tradition is much older than you seem to realize. Tooby's and Cosmides' formulation of evolutionary psychology is just the modern restatement of the "science of man" concept Hume proposed in his Treatise on Human Nature. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 00:20, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- this appears to be primarily original research WP:OR and synthesis WP:SYNTHESIS based on primary sources WP:PSTS - unless reliable secondary sources WP:RS can be found (and more than the opinion of one or two authors), edits based on these theories should be reverted - Epinoia (talk) 15:07, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]