Grifterlake

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Good luck, and have fun. --Blooded Edge (T•C•A) 18:30, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I see that you have posted your e-mail address on your user page. Generally, this is not a good idea as it is very public and will attract spam and other undesirable responses. However, you can enter your e-mail address in your profile (under "my preferences" at the top of the page when you are logged in). if you also check the "enable e-mails from other users" box, other editors will be able to e-mail you through Wikipedia, but you will not reveal your e-mail address to them unless you reply through e-mail. SpinningSpark 13:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll move it to the preference page. It's not much of a profile as of yet, but that should change. Grifterlake (talk) 19:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

August 2009

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Article. Thank you. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:51, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Canvasing

I see that for the AfD on Hank Skinner, you were posting messages to specific people asking them to add their comments if they want to save the article. While your enthusiasm for the article is understandable, trying to influence the outcome of an AfD in this manner is considered inappropriate. See WP:CANVAS for an explanation on why. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 22:53, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did to Hank Skinner, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Morbidthoughts (talk) 04:28, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Lake Worth Monster

Why not mention it in Cryptids article, then?--Mr Fink (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Off day

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sources and edits

hello, since you have interest in this article, and there's an attempt to hide a sourced paragraph, because of an assertion that it was so "discredited" simply because the father has convenient memory problems with no real proof that the newspaper in question is definitely lying, there needs to be some input by interested parties. I'm kind of busy to be wrangling forever on this matter, so your views and arguments are requested and appreciated. I only ask because you show expertise and interest in the article so therefore is NOT really "canvasing". Anyway, read through the comments and arguments in the new sub-section that was created, and give your take, if you can. Click here. Thanks. Redzemp (talk) 17:05, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Your statements on Muslims

You stated: If belief that the Quran is the Word of Allah, as given to Muhammad and the belief that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and savior for all are not the fundamental tenets of Islam and Christianity, respectively, then what are?

They are the beliefs of some Muslims and Christians. There exist many sects of religions and many degrees of faith. For example, only 40% of U.S. Christians believe you must accept Christ as your personal savior. The majority of Catholics disagree with many important church teachings. In your edits you claim to know the motivations of Muslims based on what you believe all Muslims believe. This is prejudice, pure and simple. An encyclopedia is based on reliable sources. Not your opinions based on how entire classes of people think. I should also add that Muslims and Christians worship the same god -- the god of Abraham. They are both Abrahamic religions. Please keep your personal beliefs out of your edits. Objective3000 (talk) 14:59, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

article review and edit....

hi. You may want to check out new article that I just created, even though I did not really want to. The only reason that I did was because I was searching for it on Wikipedia, and I couldn't find anything on it so far. And I almost couldn't believe there was no actual article (from what I could see) on this matter. The Philadelphia shooting on the police. "In the name of Islam". Anyway, if you want to help out on it, and contribute, or review, etc, please click: January 2016 shooting of Philadelphia PD. Thanks. Redzemp (talk) 01:27, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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