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Welcome to Wikipedia. I have noticed that some of your recent genre changes, such as the one you made to Don't Look Now, have conflicted with our neutral point of view and verifiability policies. While we invite all users to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, we urge all editors to provide reliable sources for edits made. When others disagree, we recommend you seek consensus for certain edits by discussing the matter on the article's talk page. Thank you. Betty Logan (talk) 01:15, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Do you seriously mean to say the Guardian, Rotten Tomatoes, the Criterion Collection, among others, are not reliable sources? I'm the one whose not promoting a neutral point of view? Lynchenberg (talk) 02:40, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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Apologies for that; I mistakenly took you to be the IP editor reinserting the material. I'm now fairly sure you were acting in good faith, and have removed the block from your account. Mea culpa, sorry. Yunshui ^雲_水 09:45, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

No problem, I didn't even notice.

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Ed Wood

On another board, a man who knew Ed Wood in the 70s talked about the differences in Wood's personality and Tim Burton's movie portrayal. I'm glad someone that knew him confirms my own feelings about Depp's silly performance (imo). Whatever. It was a light, fun, ooky spooky fairy tale. "I have thoroughly enjoyed all of your comments regarding Burton's film "Ed Wood" and thought I would round out the discussion with some of my personal observations about Ed Wood in person and the differences I observed between him and his characterization in the film by Johnny Depp. I met Ed in1973 and remained in contact with him through 1976 -- just two year before his death. I spent great amounts of time talking with him about his work with Bela, watched "Plan 9 from Outer Space" with him and some members of the cast and experienced him both drunk and sober. It is important to note that, when I met him, he was in his 50s and the period in which the film takes place he was in his 30s. Taking this into account, I am not certain that his personality and behavioral traits would have changed as drastically as would have been necessary to account for the differences between his portrayal in the film and the man I spent time with in the 1970s. Here are a few observations: Ed Wood was a consummate hustler, charmer and man who exuded supreme confidence. He could sell the Brooklyn Bridge twice over. On one evening, he looked at me and said, "Bob, I consider myself a protégé of Orson Welles, because we have so many similarities in our styles of filmmaking." He smiled and continued extolling himself with references to the brilliance of his filmmaking. These references, moreover, included, hiding the broken tentacle of the octopus in"Bride of the Monster" and how he overcame his special effects disaster with the balsa wood flying saucers in "Plan 9 from Outer Space". He was a calm, self-assured man even when he was complimenting himself on aspects of filmmaking that were insignificant in comparison to those of Orson Welles. He was far too calm and self-assured to ever have been as frenetic and hyperactive as Johnny Depp portrayed him in the film. Depp's characterization was hyperactive and exuded both desperation and insecurity that were nowhere to be seen in the Ed Wood I spent time with. He proudly showed me a selection of the pornographic novels he had written and noted that many of them would ultimately make it onto the screen as major feature films. That was Ed Wood. He never flinched at what others might consider a hopeless situation and thoroughly believed in his ability to circumvent every obstacle in his career. I am sure that if Burton had just listened to Wood's voice on the taped interviews I did with him, he would have known that the Depp interpretation was not entirely appropriate. To sum up, Ed Wood was master of his universe even though it was a very small and, in some ways, insignificant universe. His conviction that he was destined for greater things oozed from every pore in his body and even during our last conversations before the Lugosi biography was released, he exuded this same conviction with little or no reason for having such confidence. He was a compelling personality and never approached the level of insecurity and oftentimes panic-stricken persona conveyed by Depp in the film. Ed Wood was a compelling, almost mesmerizing individual and a very likable one at that. His relationship with Bela was synergistic but never parasitic, as some would suggest. Bela and Ed needed each other in those years and both profited from their relationship." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:562:5F00:51FB:CB0F:295D:60B5 (talk) 05:46, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Dave Sim

Please do not blank content from articles without providing a valid rationale in your edit summary, as you did with these edits to Dave Sim. If you wish to dispute another editor's edits, or material that may be controversial, please do so on the article's talk page. Please be advised that when disagreeing with content, editors are expected to adhere to Wikipedia's policies concerning assuming good faith, and abstaining from personal attacks. If you have difficulty reaching an agreement, there are a number of different solutations prescribed on Wikipedia for dispute resolution, such as Third Opinion and consensus discussion. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 20:44, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nightscream: But the content I blanked was only content I added! Do I not have a right to remove my own content if I feel I am being bullied? Lynchenberg (talk) 20:57, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@Lynchenberg: No. Inclusion or removal of content is determined by adherence to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Once you add material to Wikipedia, you cease having any proprietary ownership over it. No one one editor owns Wikipedia articles or their content.

And in any event, you were not "bullied." You made some significant edits to an article, and when another editor looked at that content, he saw that some of it was relevant, well-written, well-supported by citations, etc., but that one passage from that addition was not. That may be a critical viewpoint, but it is not "bullying". The focus of my edit was on the content. Not the editor who added it. But if I composed my edit summary in a way that came across in a way that hurt your feelings, then I sincerely apologize. It was not my intention. Nightscream (talk) 21:21, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@Nightscream: That's okay, I'll leave it be. Lynchenberg (talk) 21:45, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@Lynchenberg: Okay. ;-) Nightscream (talk) 22:00, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Kind suggestion

• If you "see no reason to name drop" "siouxsie and the banshees" in the body of the article for Haskins' quote, it would be better to open a completely new section. You will also have to ping/contact all the users who had replied to the previous rfc, and ask them if they would not oppose to this change. And to avoid confusion, you'd show them the new version you would like to see in the body of the article, and write it inside this {{xt| }, to make it appear in green color. Woovee (talk) 00:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Please don't be mad at me, I didn't mean to. NJZombie Lynchenberg (talk) 06:07, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

January 2024

Please do not use misleading edit summaries when making changes to Wikipedia pages, as you did to Mike Patton. This behavior is viewed as disruptive, and continuation may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. NJZombie (talk) 00:04, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

NJZombie DANCING IS FORBIDDEN!!!!!

NJZombie Btw, purely out of curiosity, is it possible to delete your Wikipedia account?Lynchenberg (talk) 23:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Your edit summary

You wanna explain what you meant when you wrote this? mftp dan ^oops 17:51, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Only four genres allowed per article! SOMEONE ADDED MORE! IT WAS BAD! IT WAS NAUGHTY! I DIDN'T LIKE IT, SO I REVERTED IT!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA! Lynchenberg (talk) 20:48, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Please stop doing that. If you persist, you will be blocked again. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 12:06, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

I am more concerned for your own well-being than Wikipedia's here. I'm not ordering you to leave the project by any means, but this place seems to distress you quite a bit, so why do you continue? Is there something else in the project you could help with or focus your efforts on? Alternatively, I could try and discuss the four-genre "rule" which isn't really a rule but really a suggestion that we should try very hard to stick with, if you're interested. There is a certain editor (whom I will not name out of respect for civility, but I am sure you are familiar with - in fact your edit summaries suggest you probably learned the practice from them) that misleadingly treats the guideline like it is law and it is not always possible or effective to bind to four. It does lack consistency in enforcement as well, unfortunately, so I understand the frustration very well actually, but it doesn't help to get mad at everyone for it. Sometimes individual discussions can work around parameter guidelines in special cases. mftp dan ^oops 15:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ohnoitsjamie we’re right back to ridiculous, nonsensical, and insulting edit summaries over the past 5 days, despite your warning last month. NJZombie (talk) 20:30, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Any further personal attacks will result in a longer block and the loss of your ability to edit your talk page. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 16:32, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

OhNoitsJamie, this user has now resorted to using a sock IP account to force one of the same edits they made as Lynchenberg, while also continuing to make false aspersions against me of hating autistic people that you warned them of previously.[1] NJZombie (talk) 20:14, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Blocked 48 hours for continuing to leave disruptive edit summaries, as well as attacking other editors

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The next block for this sort of disruption will be considerably longer. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:49, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry

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