M5891

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Thank you. - Jeeny ^Talk 18:40, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Black people

Hi Can you please revert your "blonde and colored-eyed actors who resemble Scandinavians or Anglos more than they" to "blue-eyed"? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.125.109.92 (talk • contribs)

Vandal reference

"When you're done dealing with another vandal's piece of fun"...

I hope that you are not referring to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by M5891 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Um, no, I wasn't. I was talking about the Grawp-sock vandal, actually. He was reverting the havok the sock had wreaked, which was quite a bit. I needed an admin, saw he was around, and said, when you're done dealing with that, could you deal with this? I wasn't talking about you -- why would I be? Gscshoyru 16:54, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Fight for Truth

Dear Friend of mine, it took me sometime to give you an answer since I was trying to find within me words that might be able to express how deeply Grateful and honored I am for your comment. I do not feel truly worthy of it but, it indeed comes in a most needed occasion. I have found no "wise" words that I could use to transmit unto you how I felt when reading your message; instead there is a little poem of the 19th century that I keep within me and would like to share with you: please accept it as token of my gratitude; may you too find within its spirit strength to carry on your own constructive efforts:

IN my mind's eye a Temple, like a cloud
Slowly surmounting some invidious hill,
Rose out of darkness: the bright Work stood still:
And might of its own beauty have been proud,
But it was fashioned and to God was vowed
By Virtues that diffused, in every part,
Spirit divine through forms of human art:
Faith had her arch--her arch, when winds blow loud,
Into the consciousness of safety thrilled;
And Love her towers of dread foundation laid
Under the grave of things; Hope had her spire
Star-high, and pointing still to something higher
Trembling I gazed, but heard a voice--it said,
"Hell-gates are powerless Phantoms when 'we' build."

-- William Wordsworth, 1827

Last, if I was been able to give "other contributors something to think about", then indeed I have reached my highest aim at this free encyclopedia of human activity. After the next couple of editions I leave.

At your service, Marco --Tekto9 (talk) 22:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

To whom it may concern.

A few months ago I drew the ire of several users by repeatedly attempting to insert and remove within one particular article several terms and statements which some identified as "vandalism" (even comparing it to some of the worst defacements committed on this site). I admit that while most of my content was legitimate and well-documented, the practice by which I was inserting it was less than professional. I ultimately issued an apology for this flawed method of editing as well as for several less-than-professional statements directed at a few other users. Still, I was also the target of several unnecessary threats and insults which have been seemingly ignored since then. Furthermore, the branding of a "troublemaker" resulted in the disregard and deletion of several of my contributions in other articles without any formal or legitimate reasoning for doing so. I agreed to apologize for the mistakes I made, now I am requesting the same from those who did wrong towards me.

We can talk

Listen, I'm reasonable -- if I may say so myself -- and if you can prove to me that your version is better, I won't hesitate to admit it. But do discuss on the talk page. That's what it's there for. Take care. SamEV (talk) 05:11, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

American people of the United States

I'm not sure about what this article is about, exactly. I tagged it for two issues, but more may be forthcoming. Bearian (talk) 20:48, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

It seems to be going somewhere, and good. I removed the two tags. Thank you for getting back to me. Bearian (talk) 15:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of American people of the United States

A tag has been placed on American people of the United States requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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If you're including this material here now, and it was already on Wikipedia, where was it before?—Largo Plazo (talk) 21:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, I see you got it from United_States#Culture. Are you planning to edit it down?—Largo Plazo (talk) 21:39, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Brazilian people

You restored the Brasileiros.jpg image in Brazilian people article, but note this image has Carmen Miranda photo, a woman not born in Brazil. Discussion about this here. Your edit was reverted. --Ciao 90 (talk) 15:46, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Brazilian American

Hello, M5891. Maybe I should feel flattered over what you're doing, but I'm not. You see, even though I wrote most of the material you keep restoring, I don't think it serves Wikipedia's purpose of producing articles that are as unique as possible one from the next. As I wrote in an edit summary, there's much difference between copying and pasting a sentence or two and C&P'ing entire paragraphs. You keep doing the latter, and have in other articles. You should try and do what many of us do: write. That material, if it is to stay in the article, should be rewritten. It isn't enough for you to point out that 'others do it, too'.

I also encourage you, again, to discuss more. You seem to have a distinct aversion to it, I've noticed in my interactions with you. SamEV (talk) 21:43, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Hispanic and Latino Americans

First, it's occurred to me that you misunderstand WP:3RR. Because of your history of disregarding the talk pages, you could be blocked for edit warring without committing a fourth revert in a 24 hour period.

As to this message you left on my talk page, I deleted it because it's a transparent effort by you to evade blame for your actions. Try again. SamEV (talk) 23:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Warning

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, while failing to build a consensus for your changes and ignoring the pertinent discussion on the article Talk page , as you did with United States, you will eventually be blocked from editing. DocKino (talk) 06:29, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Disruptive editing on Hispanic and Latino Americans

For nearly 3 months now you have been asked to refrain from edit warring and told to try to abide by WP:CONSENSUS on the Hispanic and Latino Americans article. Rather then do that you have continued to edit war on that article, unabated for 3 months straight and it has gone beyond a content dispute into the realm of disruptive editing. I have gone to both WP:AN/I (twice) and to the admins channel on IRC in order to try and get a third-party admin to handle this situation and so far this process has been unresponsive with no other admins wanting to intercede. But this situation can no longer continue as it has for the past few months so I will take it upon myself to see that it does not continue. Any further disruptive editing on the aforementioned article will result in a temporary block of editing privileges.--Jersey Devil (talk) 16:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for violating Wikipedia policy, by continued disruptive edit warring on Hispanic and Latino Americans after final warning. The duration of the block is 31 hours. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by replying here on your talk page by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}}. You may also email the blocking administrator or any administrator from this list instead, or mail unblock-en-l@mail.wikimedia.org. --Jersey Devil (talk) 01:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

M5891 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

This issue has been discussed frequently in the past with logic and citations overwhelmingly presented. The accusation of "disruptive edit warring" is based on a lackluster point of view. The accuser has frequently upheld outdated statistics, blatantly unsourced and clearly partisan content, and misleading terms and labels. Information with sources and proper links have been blanked in favor of unsourced and apparently point of view content. This is a strong case of edit bias.

Decline reason:

You were edit warring and ignoring consensus. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 03:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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When you return

Please don't just restore the content yet again, M. I could suggest a fourth editor to help us out of this impasse, if you'd like. Let me know if you do. SamEV (talk) 00:29, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

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See my reply over there. And please be more civil. SamEV (talk) 00:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Miyavi's year of birth

While everyone is welcome to contribute to expand Wikipedia articles, please do not add an uncited year of birth as it will be undone, and considered as a vandalism edit until valid, official sources are provided to prove as such. WikiEditor 09111 (talk) 21:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Civility

I was directed to your recent comments by another administrator, and I am appalled by what you have been saying without any sort of instigation by other users. I have no clue what irked you to write such comments such as "You pompous, forked-tongued, commie liberals can all go rot. I apologize for nothing." or "What I find upsetting is how pompous, rude, loudmouthed maniacs go about wailing and preaching "civility" but all the while disregarding it (you know who you are)." And I don't even want to know why you felt the need to post anything like what you did to a discussion that's been over for over a year and a half in the first link.

So take this as your final warning. If you write anything so acidic and overly offensive again, you will be indefinitely blocked for civility violations.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 04:08, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

This post is by an anon, but claiming to be from you.[1] Is it you?

If it is, then please calm down. If you feel that angry, then don't look at Wikipedia till you're not angry any more, and you've got things in proportion. If you have a disagreement, then express it in civil terms, or you'll just end up being blocked.

Ty 01:37, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:La Sombra Intocable.jpg

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Cyber-stalking

The servers that monitor edits indicate that you have edited a user page with an aggressive post. We would not like to see further issues of cyber-bullying and if push comes to shove, we are happy to escalate the matter and pursue the matter rigourously. Thanks. billinghurst sDrewth 11:41, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Pretty sure the clock really has been excluded from the Abraj Al Bait

Looks like it's gonna be shorter than the artist's rendition as well.

• http://www.abrajal-bait.com/ Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:25, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

R.I.P.

May his soul and the souls of all the departed faithful by God's mercy rest in peace.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.222.83.85 (talk) 07:49, 13 November 2010 (UTC)