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Infobox changes require consensus. Please do not WP:edit war. Kautilya3 (talk) 23:18, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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That was a funny thread.[1] Orientls (talk) 05:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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Opéra bouffon to Opera buffa

i have merged Opéra bouffon to Opera buffa as there was a merge tag see Talk:Opéra bouffon before reverting — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B910:3D00:308F:7CE6:EF9A:8A98 (talk) 11:59, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

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Your revert warring on Anti sikh Riots

with these edits diff ahead, D4i4na has controversially inflated the casualty figures in the article, without consensus, he has have been reverted by me and per BRD you are supposed to make consensus instead of edit warring. [2] [3]. I have followed BRD here, instead of accusing me of Edit warring why don't you make arguments to explain the edits.

You are seen as tag teaming to revert the article to your preferred non consensus version. I suggest you to self revert and join the talk page discussion. --DBigXrayᗙ 10:47, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

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Move review: Paradisus Judaeorum

(sent out exact copy to all AfD participants - apologize if you are aware) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews which you were involved in, is in discussion at Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2018 December. Input there is welcome.Icewhiz (talk) 07:15, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Kingdom of Sikkim

Can you elaborate as to why you say Sikkim was not independent post-1946? I added that change to a few articles besides the two you reverted, but, as far as I know, that information is correct. Sikkim was independent, since it joined India in 1975. ARR8 (talk) 12:55, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Sikkim was independent since 1861 too because it became British India's protectorate by the treaty of 1861, and at the time of independence India assumed those responsibilities. India signed a treaty with Sikkim's ruler that sustained Sikkim's protectorate status so the protectorate status in this sense was sustained since 1861 to 1975.  You should be providing sources for saying Sikkim became independent in 1947. Orientls (talk) 04:29, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

I see. I'll revert my other edits on this topic. Thanks for the info. ARR8 (talk) 23:32, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Mughal-Maratha wars

As I've clearly mentioned in my edit, there's no legitimate source that states that the Marathas had won the war. So it needs citation. Secondly, the additional claims you've made along with it doesn't match the citations you've affixed. So you've not restored any sourced claim, but a misleading claim. The citations do not state that the "Marathas had quickly regained the lost territories." Furthermore, in that section you must only mention the outcome of the war which actually seems to be inconclusive, at the moment, and not what happened before or after it, which is irrelevant. Chippy pest (talk) 08:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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Hello Orientls, please see the final resolution of the dispute here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive400#User:Orientls reported by User:Squatch347 (Result: Protected the redirect). The result was to merge the article and protect it from disruptive editing. Squatch347 (talk) 18:05, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Tabiti Comments

Well, first, let's stop with the slander of accusing me of being a sockmaster. The only accusation of being a sockmaster on my record was made by you, and rejected by the admin that did the investigation. If you review the closing comments you'll note that the adjudication was done because there has been no expansion of the article in a year, it remains a stub. Finally, your assessment of the positions is incorrect; 2 voted against the merge (you and desmay (RebeccaGreen labelled hers as a question and the IP was shown to be a sock of Falconfly)) and 5 for the merge (Otr500, myself, Aurornisxui, MarkAQuinn (not sure why you think he is a sock), Elmidae) Squatch347 (talk) 15:05, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello Orientls. When accusing others of being socks, please be aware of WP:ASPERSIONS. Making a charge which has no basis may be viewed as a personal attack, which is blockable. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 14:51, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: I am confident that you had planned to leave this note on talk page of Squatch347 who was indeed caught and blocked for socking which he will himself never accept and never accept that MarkAQuinn was a sock ("not sure why you think he is a sock") yet he continues to falsely refer this account with clean image as a sock.[4] If this is not the case then still, would you rectify this and post the warning on the correct talk page? Orientls (talk) 17:32, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I don't think I made a mistake in my placement of this note. But after review, the questions of sockpuppetry are more complex than I thought. From what was said in the AN3 report, it does appear that the Tabiti article was previously troubled by socks. But if you want to remove my notice from your talk page, you should do so. I am unclear on where Squatch347 accused you of being a sockmaster. I do see you claiming that Squatch347 used a sock here on 7 December, which was before he was blocked (in January 2020 due to the SPI case which you filed). If the charge that User:Tabiti is a sock hasn't been officially confirmed, then Squatch347 shouldn't keep making that charge. I will ask User:Krakkos why he put the suspected sockpuppet tag on User:Tabiti. EdJohnston (talk) 19:08, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

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AfD closure on Dalit Film Festival

Hi - a small piece of unsolicited advice: I agree with you that it was a weak closing, but the admin is clearly sensitive and does not seem to engage well; best course of action is to leave for six months and renominate. --Goldsztajn (talk) 15:31, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

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@MarkH21: fixed. Orientls (talk) 08:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit warring at 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China

Hi Orientls, as you will already be aware given your post on my talk page [5], you have now reverted me twice two place highly similar content in two places within the lead of the article.

1. [6] "RV no improvement"
2. [7] "Undid revision 952614579 by Darouet (talk) makes no sense since they were admittedly censoring since december, take it to talk page per WP:BRD"

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Ehsan Sehgal

I really appreciate you initiated this AfD. I was planning to nominate it as well but you beat me to it. Looking forward to outcome. --Saqib (talk) 15:48, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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We met at a bitter dispute spread over one talk, a handful of user talks and a couple of ANIs, not the best places to meet fellow editors. I regret my loss of cool, which I hope haven't damaged the possibility of you and I collaborating in future, on something. After all we are often interested in similar articles, and we all want to improve them to the best of our abilities. Maybe sometime we could have a beer together, or Y tea. It's better than beer, you know. Apologising again for all the badblood. Peace. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 02:36, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

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Faizan SPI

Hi Orientls. The examples you presented on the SPI appear to be unrelated. One, the trangabellam one is Kashmir related, while the second, the faizan sock one, is from the history of Bangladesh. Did you mean to post different diffs or am I missing something?--RegentsPark (comment) 17:14, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

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	Amazing sock-hunting, Orientls! We are all in your debt! Kautilya3 (talk) 00:31, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Please refactor

Please remove or rewrite your comment [9] to focus on content and policy rather than attacking editors with which you disagree. Thank you. --Hipal (talk) 16:38, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

[10] I hope you understand and will reconsider how you've been behaving. --Hipal (talk) 21:14, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

That is incorrect. During my most active year, I mostly saw you with your earlier username which was changed after some years. That is why I mainly happen to remember you with that username. Orientls (talk) 18:47, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. Please don't do so again. Best to WP:FOC. --Hipal (talk) 20:12, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

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