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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 06:26, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Your edits here and here at Vichy France broke the parameterized transcludable infobox. This didn't cause any ill effect at the Vichy France article itself, but rather at any article that transcluded it. In particular, the article Government of Vichy France was badly mangled, including the entire "Vichy France" article within it, so it contained double body sections, double See also's, double sets of notes and references applying to both articles on one page, double external links, and so on. In a word: a big mess. The fix to Government of Vichy France was to remove your two edits from Vichy France.

What were you trying to achieve with those two edits? If there was a valid goal, maybe it could be achieved some other way, without breaking selective transclusion. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them below, using {{reply}}, or add a new section to my Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:39, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. Have you edited before under another name? Your editing pattern shows deep familiarity with Wikipedia.

As a new account, you have been making some sophisticated edits to article infoboxes, such as adding {{Infobox former subdivision}} to numerous articles. Additionally, as noted in the section above this one, you successfully modified code at Vichy France which employed inclusion control modifiers and conditional parser functions to carry out selective transclusion, while keeping all the metacharacters balanced and the source page in working order. (It happened to break something elsewhere, but the point is that that is a very sophisticated edit showing great familiarity with some advanced features of Wikipedia.)

Can you disclose what other account(s) you may have used before this? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 00:02, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Kindly stop your campaign of reallocating Ukrainian cities to Russia; there is no consensus for these changes. Jeppiz (talk) 15:14, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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At Timeline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war you added an event sourced to a youtube short by CGTN. CGTN is considered a deprecated source at WP:RSP due to it publishing false or fabricated information. More problematically, the content you added was not supported by the source; it did not support the claim that a "a pregnant woman and her unborn baby" was killed.

Please be careful to use reliable sources and only add claims that are supported by those reliable source, particularly in contentious topic areas like the Arab-Israeli conflict. BilledMammal (talk) 09:38, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looking through some of your other edits, I would also recommend being cautious about the following sources:

1. Middle East Eye - while not listed at RSP, discussions at RSN have seen it negatively.
2. Red Stream Net - you used them here, but they appear to be a self-published source and thus are not suitable.
3. Primary sources - some of the videos you present include no analysis but instead just a headline and a video of the events, such as this edit and this edit. In general, in a contentious topic area like this, it is best to rely on secondary sources as it helps us identify what is and isn't WP:DUE. The second one is particularly problematic as the words you added aren't fully supported by the sources.

In general, I would suggest avoiding youtube shorts as a source, and instead finding written sources.

I'm also seeing a little edit warring and a few WP:1RR violations at topics like Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion. Please keep in mind breaches of this are taken seriously, and can result in blocks or bans from uninvolved administrators - for the purposes of our policies our definition of revert is any edit (or administrative action) that reverses or undoes the actions of other editors, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material, and whether performed using undo, rollback, or done so completely manually. A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert. BilledMammal (talk) 09:58, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

the whole "a pregnant woman and her unborn baby" claim i found in another source but i either forgot to add it or someone removed it. and i don't remember participating in edit wars or reverting edits in pages like Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion. whatever it is it's probably unintentional. also where can i find discussions about Middle East Eye? Durranistan (talk) 12:40, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RSN; if you search the archives you will find some. BilledMammal (talk) 17:34, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found this conversation when looking for editors who made contributions to the page I am currently working on. According to other discussions on pages related to the war Middle East Eye is generally factual (albeit somewhat prone to cherry-picking and spin). Irtapil (talk) 14:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Billed Mammal (you've told me not to tag you because you subscribe to stuff already), can you please you link the depreciation discussion of CGTN on my talk page? I am aware of their reputation, but I listen to CGTN Radio (English service) fairly frequently, and I think the bad rep is at least partly undeserved. They don't tell the whole truth, but what they do say is usually true, it has been every time I've taken the time to check. But I'm keen to know if I've missed any examples of fabrication? Irtapil (talk) 14:17, 19 January 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Durranistan. I notice you've been adding a lot of content recently with citations to http://dev-isw.bivings.com. This website does not appear to exist, and bivings doesn't seem to have anything to do with ISW. I don't know how exactly you got that URL, or if using it at all was some kind of mistake, but every use needs to be fixed. If you were intending to cite ISW's daily reports, it's no good to cite their main page (and certainly not someone else's mirror), as the content changes daily. You need to find a static URL for the update for that day, or at least provide enough of a title and other information to unambiguously identify the source. As it is now, it's entirely unclear what you're even intending to cite. Someguy1221 (talk) 03:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify something I just figured out, that URL can be found in the metadata of ISW's website, probably a leftover from the website's development phase, and may have gotten pulled out by a citation tool, assuming you are using one. But the rest of my first comment still stands. That line of metadata exists in the source code of every ISW daily report, so if you have a tool that is grabbing the wrong URL, you'll need to copy-paste the correct one manually. Someguy1221 (talk) 03:26, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the notice, hopefully i fixed it Durranistan (talk) 04:31, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not change properly terminated, self-closing Html tags such as <br /> by changing them to the unterminated <br>. This breaks syntax highlighting for everything on the page after it. I've undone a dozen edits of yours from 15 November which modified working pages and broke them with this type of change. Sorry for all the notifications you must have gotten about these reverts, but please don't do any more of these. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 11:53, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

alright Durranistan (talk) 11:59, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In your revision of 12:42, 8 November 2023 (UTC) of List of engagements during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, you introduced four undefined named references:

• <ref name="oct-12" />
• <ref name=":02" />
• <ref name=":03" />
• <ref name="UNRWA" />

Please fix. —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:47, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

fixed, thanks for telling me Durranistan (talk) 09:08, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I saw my edits of moving the images were changed, is there a reason for this? I just move the image to the related conflict? Can't think of an issue with this? It took me quite a while of my time making those changes and would be nice if my changed can be included back Danial Bass (talk) 12:00, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also just to let you know, this is my second time doing that change, since I had an edit conflct with you, so instead of reverting your changes, I re-did mine manually again without disrupting your edits. It would be nice if you can do back that favor to me Danial Bass (talk) 12:05, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I dont remember reverting anything, its probably because we are both editing at the same time and the timing reverted your edit Durranistan (talk) 12:27, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah sorry I wasnt clear, what you said is what I mean. Can you please manually re-do your edit. When there is an edit conflict there will usually be a pop-up button where u can manually redo it. Not sure if you didn't see it? When I saw the "edit conflict" pop-up I chose to manually redo my edits instead of just copy and paste my edit, thus undoing your recent edits (this is what I mean by "revert" bcos it essentially reverts the edits (not referring to the undo button) Danial Bass (talk) 12:45, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

yeah i didnt see any pop-ups about edit conflict when publish my edit Durranistan (talk) 13:25, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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thats awesome, thanks! Durranistan (talk) 14:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I reverted you here [1], because the page looked to me like complained about here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Vector_2022_skin_display_problems. But that passed and there was nothing wrong with your edit, so I've reverted my revert. Happy editing! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:50, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]