User talk:Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog

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Proper use of "minor" edits

Please only use minor (m) edits when you are only correcting a minor spelling or grammaticial error in a Wikipedia article which does not change, reduce, or expand the meaning, context, or voice of an article. In recent edits (see: Ochota_massacre) you have made substantial additions to articles and flagged the edits as "minor." This is incorrect. Please see: Help:Minor edit. Pollenberg (talk) 05:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Zivia Lubetkin

Welcome aboard, Cap'n! I appreciate your pitching in with clean-up edits on the Zivia Lubetkin page. You're welcome to raid my User page for formatting ideas if you like, and if there's any help I can offer, feel free to ask. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 17:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 20:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Category:Physician who died in Nazi concentration camps

Hi there, you'll need to post a Speedy-CFR notice at Category:Physician who died in Nazi concentration camps following the directions at the Speedy Renaming page. Nothing can happen until it's properly tagged. Cheers, Cgingold (talk) 03:10, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Good articles

I think your should study Wikipedia:Guide for nominating good articles and think what else could be improved. As soon as you decide that everything is O'K, we can go ahead and try the nomination. Both articles look too big, and maybe some sub-articles could be created, although I am not quite sure. Unfortunately, I do not have enough time for that. Good job with Moscow theater hostage crisis! Biophys (talk) 03:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

International response to the Beslan hostage crisis

A tag has been placed on International response to the Beslan hostage crisis, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Ŵïllî§ï$2 (^Talk!/_Cont.) 20:36, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Beslan school hostage crisis. Thank you. E_dog95' ^{Hi '} 20:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

No need to be overly sarcastic

This one was unneeded, the whole drama could be avoided if you would discuss substance of your changes instead. Please re-read WP:CIVIL and WP:BITE Alex Bakharev (talk) 01:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding this edit, and Alex's polite request above: please be aware that the civility policy is a non-negotiable requirement. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could tone down your language in discussions. -- The Anome (talk) 13:55, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Generalplan Ost. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Aheadnovel55 (talk) 17:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a follow up to this. You were referred to WP:AN3, and should be aware. I have closed the request because you were warned after your fourth edit. However, you did violate the policy. Please be more careful in the future and use the article's talk page to try to reach a consensus rather than engaging in edit warring. Remember, that you can be blocked for edit warring even without a technical 3RR violation. --Selket ^Talk 18:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Relax a little. See this link from here. Biophys (talk) 21:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Zamość Uprising and cleanup

Could you explain on talk of that article what needs to be "cleaned up"? Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:46, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

If you mean such minor MoS issues, I admit I am not that familiar with them. I'd appreciate it if you could clean up the article from such issues - it is unlikely anyone else will do it soon. Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Category:My Lai Massacre

Hi - I'm not sure why you blanked the contents of this category page, since you didn't leave an edit summary. I'll assume it was a mistake, but please be more careful in future. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 02:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Moved to main. --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 10:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

It isn't sufficient to categorize only the main article. Nearly all categories have at least one parent category, and there's no reason why this one should be different. Please revert your deletion. Stepheng3 (talk) 20:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

You are removing categories, for example in two last edits. Can you please explain what you are doing? Thanks.Biophys (talk) 21:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I mean this for example. It seems that all parent cats were good.Biophys (talk) 21:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Movin' to the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain articles. Nothing's lost. --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 21:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course main article Beslan_school_hostage_crisis was properly categorized as belonging to Category:Beslan_school_hostage_crisis. But the Category:Beslan_school_hostage_crisis is a sub-category of several other categories, and you have deleted all parent categories. Could you please have a good rest? Very best wishes,Biophys (talk) 21:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Biophys. Until you understand the difference between a category structure and mentions of a subject in an article, I strongly suggest you stop editing categories, otherwise further controversial edits may be seen as deliberate disruption. You have been told often enough now that you should not be doing what you are doing. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 21:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

3RR on Category:My Lai Massacre

This is a friendly warning. If you revert again you can be blocked. Please see WP:3RR.

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Category:My Lai Massacre. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. --Timeshifter (talk) 22:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you look at...

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Polish culture during World War II? I'd appreciate your comments, and help with copyediting the article. Thanks! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Sheena Fujibayashi

Is there any particular reason for which you resurrected the Sheena Fujibayashi article? The decision to merge it with the List of characters in Tales of Symphonia article was almost unanimous. The current consensus among Wiki editors is that it should remain merged. Unless you can convince us otherwise, the article will be reverted to its merged state. Thanks. Patrician Vetinari (talk) 02:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Merging pages

When you are merging one page into another, you should not tag the page for deletion nor blank the page. The proper procedure is to redirect the page. --- RockMFR 21:15, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Chechen people

Thanks for reverting all that guy's additions. It seems the best solution in the circumstances. I checked out one of his references (in Russian) and, as far as I can tell, it says the exact opposite of what he claims in the material he added. Judging by his user page, we're dealing with WP:SOAPBOX here. Oh, and he's got a nerve asking for a cite for material which is clearly referenced at the end of the paragraph to a reliable, published source. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 09:30, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

First can you please not attack me, second of all, I've spent an hour writing based on several literature for example of the wartime insurgency in Chechnya, the Russo-Chechen conflict of titular nationlities of the ChIASSR, and the ethnic cleansing of the 300,000 non-Chechen population in the early 1990s by Chechens. All of this was refrenced. Instead of pointing out complete issues you have reverted everything without an entry into the talk page if and if this happens one more time, this goes straight to the WP:AN/I, there is a difference between vandalous and sourced additions. --Kuban Cossack 10:12, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Now I have acted in good faith resisted the urge to revert, yet you are still not participating in the talk page discussion, even though I've saved you the effort of starting the section, on how to fix the article's history part that is presently written only from one source (effectively copypasted) --Kuban Cossack 10:44, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

To Captain Obvious: I imagine you and I are the "two arrogant editors" referred to here:[1]. Just a heads-up.--Folantin (talk) 16:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Queries

Could you explain why you removed the small amount of sourced material I added? Also, where does the claim "they refer to themselves as Nokhchii meaning 'Noah's people'" come from? It's certainly not in Jaimoukha. It sounds like folk etymology. In fact, it seems to be from a fringe source, Khasan Baksayev, of the Research Centre of the Nokhchii Latt Islam movement, who claimed Chechen had been spoken by Adam and Noah [2] --Folantin (talk) 16:51, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

It's kind of "common knowledge". Last month Kadyrov even launched a "Noah's Ark" festival in Chechnya, guess why. --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 17:02, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, but according to the source I gave it is only folk etymology (and pretty recent folk etymology at that). So we shouldn't have it as a "fact". --Folantin (talk) 17:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

But seriously, Noh is "Nox" in Chechen. This what it means. --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 17:36, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Warning

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Russians, without explaining the valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Papa November (talk) 17:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)