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Noel Rose (a page you deleted in 2006)

Hi Tom, I work in the field of autoimmune disease and went looking for a page on Noel Rose, but noticed a 2006 version had been deleted by you. I expect it was a guideline problem (e.g., a verbatim copy of existing content), but let me know if there was some other reason. I am going to start creating the new page, but if you have issues please let me know. Thank you.

Aaron Abend (talk) 13:58, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Invited!

Hi Tom! Next on my list to bring to Featured Article level is the Collapse of the World Trade Center article. I have commenced doing some adjustments and some may become major as it proceeds. I feel it lacks the engineering discussion needed to provide a full understanding of how and why the buildings collapsed and for that I need persons better versed than I to at least steer it along the correct path...so anything you have to suggest there or here is welcome.--MONGO (talk) 14:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, sounds good. Tom Harrison ^Talk 20:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

I think some organizational issues persist and was thinking a brief summary of the attacks, followed by a detailed description of the collapses (the article lacks many finer details) then on to the mechanics of what happened. I am not sure a lengthy discussion about lost artwork, etc, belongs as I think this needs to mainly discuss the engineering aspects. We may have to address conspiracy theories was well near the end if for no other reason than to put them in their bed.--MONGO (talk) 21:27, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Agreed; some pruning is due. Tom Harrison ^Talk 14:45, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorry been absent a bit still thinking about what the article should emphasize..will be working on it more next week.--MONGO (talk) 17:21, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

No problem, same here... Tom Harrison ^Talk 18:18, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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As it's such a long time since the block and a Checkuser has said there's been no evidence of recent block evasion, would you be happy with an unblock at User talk:Mstrojny now? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:25, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

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Black Hebrew Israelites

Hi you recently protected Black Hebrew Israelites for edit warring. Looks like it is starting again except this time they are calling it vandalism. Should I take it to WP:AN/EW since this is a long term issue with them removing the same material against consensus for months? PackMecEng (talk) 13:58, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunately that's the next step. Tom Harrison ^Talk 11:49, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

I've protected the page again. Please give your views on the talk page if you would. Tom Harrison ^Talk 18:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Done, thanks again for the help! PackMecEng (talk) 19:09, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Review

What is missing or should be culled from Collapse of the World Trade Center. I feel we have too many sections and some areas could be combined. I have a period of free time and may try and push this to peer review after I reread the NIST report. If you're inclined, feel free to post any suggestions to the article talkpage so we can get a dialogue started.--MONGO (talk) 19:36, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Great, I'll start reading. Tom Harrison ^Talk 01:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Collapse of the World Trade Center

Hello Tom, Can I ask you to look at the recent "edits" on the Collapse of the World Trade Center, which you reverted earlier. A noted conspiracy buff then reverted back to his preferred version, which I reverted back. This has been reverted, yet again, by the same person. My suggestion was to wait until MONGO's proposed rewrite, but this has been ignored. Regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

David, I'd say wait and see how it develops. Thanks, Tom Harrison ^Talk 12:24, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Restore page

Hi, can you restore User:EchetusXe/Nathan Ferguson for me please? I had it deleted but he has come back to the game and is now notable. Thanks,--EchetusXe 17:00, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Done; happy editing. Tom Harrison ^Talk 12:26, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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Request to unprotect 2006 Bilderberg Meeting redirect

@Tom harrison:

Would you mind kindly unprotecting the 2006 Bilderberg Meeting redirect so that I can fix the double redirect error and also nominate for RfD? Protection is no longer required, as I believe it was protected ~13 years ago or so.

Cheers,
--Doug Mehus T·C 19:20, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Done, Tom Harrison ^Talk 20:15, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Bob Dylan and Alcohol

Hi Tom harrison, Following my deletion of this material [[1]], there is a discussion of Bob Dylan and Alcohol here: Talk:Bob_Dylan#Alcohol. Any comments you wish to make are welcome. Mick gold (talk) 18:13, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

9/11 Truth Movement

Hi Tom. I'd appreciate your input here. Thanks. Evan ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:58, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Mark WikiProject Linux as inactive?

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indef

Please consider making your block on this user an indef, given their userpage and edits, I see no good coming from this account. Praxidicae (talk) 13:15, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I'm changing the block to indefinite; other admins are welcome to review and change as appropriate. Thanks, Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:17, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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About a Research on the History of Conspiracy Theories

Dear Tom Harrison,

I take the liberty to contact you, I am a doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 and my work focuses on the history of conspiracy theories, on which I have already published a few scientific articles and I am now preparing a book. I have been interviewing conspiracists and truthers, their critics and opponents for several years, working particularly on the French association ReOpen911 and the question of 9/11, as a now "historical" case of conspiracy...And obviously wikipedia has been a rather major theater of discussions/criticisms on the subject.

Looking at the related conspiracy pages' statistics, I realized that you have worked for long on these issues on wikipedia, hence my message and a small request: I would really appreciate if you can share bits of this "experience" with me in an interview.

All the best

Pierre France pierre.France [arob.] zoho.com https://univ-paris1.academia.edu/PierreFrance — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.187.1.47 (talk) 09:57, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, no. Best wishes with your research, Tom Harrison ^Talk 18:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Alt-right

Hi Tom; just wanted to see what your particular reasons were for this revert [2] on Alt-right. Did you think I was cutting too much? I've been a major contributor to this article for a few years, adding a lot into it, but it's clearly gone way over the recommended WP:Article Size so I've been trying to prune in back, in the hope that one day we can get it through GAN and FAC. Any particular parts of my pruning that you disagree with? Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:29, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, must have hit rollback while scrolling through the watchlist. Thanks for letting me know, sorry for the inconvenience. Tom Harrison ^Talk 12:49, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Not a problem, Tom. Have a good week! Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:50, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Three Marys

Dear Tom, would you care to explain your revert? Str1977 ^(talk) 19:59, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, must have hit the button by accident. Thanks for letting me know, Tom Harrison ^Talk 20:05, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

That's allright. Str1977 ^(talk) 20:08, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Tom can u help me?

I contributed a lot to the mu online article in Spanish and LuchoCR just for having contributed without vandalism blocked me forever from Wikipedia, you can review the changes I made on the page and I asked them in a good way to remove the block since I had not done anything and instead they gave me a 13-day block and then for asking librarians for help in Spanish they undid my changes asking for help on their discussion pages and they blocked me forever, the librarian Taichi is complicit I asked for help with this user https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario_discusión:MajinBaki who is 3 years old and they blocked my IP forever without having done anythinghttps://es.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&redlink=1&title=User_discussion:186.11.123.149 Taichi deleted my discussion page where I put the unlock template explaining everything and rightly put that it was unnecessary, just to delete it, vandalizing my page discussion page Here is an example of the help I asked a librarian in Spanish on the subject and the ocelot librarian as a mafioso reverted the changes https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:MobileDiff/152986729 and asked my ip ban without doing anything, I just ask for help to do justice, the user Ocelot asked for my IP ban and the mafia user LuchoCR thanked him for reverting my help changes on librarian pages and said yes to me ip ban requested by ocelot https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tablón_de_anuncios_de_los_bibliotecarios/Portal/Archivo/Nombres_inapropiados_y_vandalismo_persistente/Actual?markasread=52216326&markasreadwiki=eswiki#c-Ocelot-2023081016300 0-Block_Breach_10 there is a mob on wikipedia in Spanish that is why I ask you for help, please translate everything that appears in the links that I send you so that you understand MajinBaki(talk) 20:26, 10 August 2023 (UTC) MajinBaki (talk) 23:23, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

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