Akiva K Segan

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August 2012

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August 2013

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March 2014

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Death camps

Hello, Akiva K Segan. Please stop changing the wording of "concentration camps" to "death camps". These camps to which you refer served both functions and were called concentration camps.Hoops gza (talk) 16:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

For Mr. Tag Hoops gzal. It is a lie and abets Holocaust denial and professional Jew-hatred to claim the Nazi death camps, aka mass murder, or extermination camps, were "concentration camps." Stop abetting Jew-hatred, "revisionist" history and hatred of non-Jews who were also murdered in Nazi death camps. While Auschwitz-Birkenau had large sections of slave labor concentration camp sections within, such as that of the German industrial concern I.G. Farben, the other Nazi death camps in Poland only had small number of slave laborers, used mainly used to continue to process incoming arrivals for gassing and burning, e.g. Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Majdanek. If you are a professional Holocaust denier you should identify yourself as such. March 28, 2014.

Please do not use personal attacks. It is not Holocaust denial to refer to Auschwitz and Majdanek as concentration camps because that is what they were called, and that is the title we use on Wikipedia when referring to those two particular camps. Auschwitz is referred to in any number of ways, and may be best simply put "Auschwitz". You also tend to break links with your edits. Your edits on such articles will continue to be reverted.Hoops gza (talk) 16:55, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

It is indeed a lie, and a great lie at that, to claim that Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek and Belzec were concentration camps. While the Nazis called them konzentrationslagers, they also used such ruses as "Arbeit Macht Frei" as part of their deception towards the forthcoming gassing and mass murder of incoming arrivals to each of those camps. Only a Nazi, a Nazi sympathizer, a so-called "neo-Nazi" would accept the lie that there were no gassings, no gas chambers and no mass murder of Jews, Romany and Sinti nor of over one million Catholic Poles, over one million Red Army POWs etc. If you are an active volunteer or employee of the Institute for Holocaust Revision or or eliewieseltattoo dot com, you should identify yourself as a professional Jew hate and Nazi sympathizer or Nazi. Stop asking me to engage in Holocaust denier as you keep on doing. It's sick and it's sickening. You should also identify yourself by full name (first and last) and place instead of hiding behind a mantle and cloak under the name of Hoops gza

May 2015

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February 2017

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Facebook. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 19:39, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Nathan2055. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Airbnb, 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. Thank you. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 19:39, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at LinkedIn, you may be blocked from editing. General Ization ^Talk 19:40, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at OkCupid. General Ization ^Talk 19:41, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Meetup, you may be blocked from editing. Dunready (talk) 19:50, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Widr (talk) 20:01, 25 February 2017 (UTC)