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A 25 year old ref is a little old. Anything newer?Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:08, 19 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Update the body to this review [1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:14, 20 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Reference errors on 20 October

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en.muvs.org/topic/camel-contraception

The page that you cited itself says that there is no evidence to support the idea.

Triacylglyceride (talk) 03:07, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

I saw that when I read the article, and doing that to a camel does sound very dangerous. I also saw that Huffington post thought the idea was worth repeating however, granted they repeat just about everything from their references verbatim. It's a piece of historically significant folklore related to the topic; I'd be interested if it's ever actually been tried in a veterinary journal or has been mentioned by a famous source because the museum said the idea is plausible, but right now it's just a legend that needs confirmed of myth busted. An Inconvenient Truth (talk) 15:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

October 2016

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  Please be careful about what you say to people. Some remarks, such as your addition to User talk:Flyer22 Reborn can easily be misinterpreted, or viewed as harassment. Wikipedia is a supportive environment, where contributors should feel comfortable and safe while editing. Thank you. Muffled Pocketed 16:34, 21 October 2016 (UTC) Could you clarify which remark? I would guess before you answer where I asked if they were a sock puppet. That seems odd however as I am being accused of being a sock puppet. I too call for a high degree of respect and professionalism in my colleagues, thank you for your comment, but if you could be more precise it would help me more. I thought it was odd someone who is apparently very well respected here had a non existent talk page, it just hardly seems like a good form of public relations, I will be more careful with my opinions concerning the conduct of others, particularly those who have committed more of their time and resources to improving this encyclopedia. If you don't mind my asking Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi how would you yourself feel if all your edits for the last week were reverted (which for me is all of them), you were not informed of a sock puppet investigation? It would be annoying wouldn't it, you probably thought a couple edits you made this last week were pretty cool. I'd have to take a took at your edit history but a week is a lot of time lost. If I had been here a month would it be someone getting 150 edits reverting me, I'm wondering that the limits on this time honored tradition of witch hunting new editors by saying their old editor stems from? Forgive the analogy, but more appropriately say analogies and metaphors are forbidden. No one here seems to like them, just use them. I certainly didn't think anyone fell off a turnip truck, ouch, talk about the road rash and contusions from that one, you'd be lucky to be able to type still falling out of a moving truck. An Inconvenient Truth (talk) 18:29, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) Where exactly were you accused of socking? Also I do not see an open investigation here. [2]--Wlmg (talk) 20:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'm not on the sock puppet investigation page, yet. In the edit summaries of User:Flyer22 Reborn after they reverted all of my edits they repeatedly state"Revert sock: An Inconvenient Truth". No where else really. Would you go through flyers edits that reverted mine Wlmg, there's not that many and they don't seem to be doing it for my new edits. I don'y really have anything else to add at the moment, I've read enough depressing stuff for now, however I would like the edits I've already added to count. An Inconvenient Truth (talk) 21:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Ok I see them; that is troublesome that she would put that in an edit summary. --Wlmg (talk) 22:16, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

November 2016

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistent disruptive editing. 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 ~~~~}}.  Guy (Help!) 01:55, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Note that this is based on a review of your edits, your exceptionally combative mass revert of another user, including reintroducing material sourced from manifestly unacceptable sources such as blogs, and the fact that I simply do not believe form your contribution history that you are a genuinely new user. Guy (Help!) 01:58, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Reply