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Use of the WP:Weasel words guideline

Hello, Sowlos. Your use of the WP:Weasel words and citation guidelines are wrong with this edit. See where WP:Weasel words guideline says that such words are not automatically weasel words and "may also be used in the lead section of an article or in a topic sentence of a paragraph, where the article body or the rest of the paragraph supplies attribution."

The line you added tags to is a topic sentence. The examples are given immediately after it. 46.165.208.13 (talk) 00:19, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

1. 'Many writers and scholars' is a weasel phrase. It doesn't say who nor how many.
2. It's not in the topic sentence. It challenges the topic sentence.
3. The rest of the paragraph doesn't supply attribution. It does follow that statement with mention of Edward Burnett Tylor, but he is neither 'many writers' nor 'scholars'.

In actuality, it challenges the topic sentence in state which doesn't or no longer exists. The TS doesn't define religion singularly as the 'belief in god.' That entire section looks like it needs rewording.
—Sowlos (talk) 09:47, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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Lol. Lies! ...hope I don't have to opt out. :/

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Jerusalem

Hi, I would appreciate it if you'll add your opinion here: Talk:Jerusalem#Better wording#We are running out of bits--Tritomex (talk) 18:48, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for bring that to my attention. I've cast my vote and quarantined the off topic banter in that section. Unfortunately, I doubt it will do much. The entire Jerusalem talk page has degenerated into a filibuster on the modification of controversial facts about the city.
—Sowlos (talk) 21:38, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the image. it looks fine now. Pass a Method talk 11:44, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

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Wikproject EU thread

I see that Dr K has now closed the whole thread based on your AN request (which you then withdrew following my hatting). It is of course your right to challenge that if you wish on the basis that it was done after your request was withdrawn. In any event I've adjusted my post in Wikiproject Countries to invite comment there rather than Wikiproject EU. It was probably more appropriate there in any case since the issue raised by you is really a generic "countries" issue (i.e. the extent to which reference to a particular issue must be harmonised across more than one country article) rather than an EU issue. I've responded on my TP to the question you asked me on my TP. DeCausa (talk) 18:56, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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sandy

thanks for your reark at H Sandy... there is a related poll in a later section where we are discussing various alternative options. Please consider reiterating your thought there. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 04:55, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

FYROM naming issue

The term FYROM is the country's formal name, Republic of Macedonia or Macedonia is the shortened name that is sometimes used. Feel free to check this with the CIA, BBC, or any other source. The use of "Republic of Macedonia" is incorrectly used in its own article but I cannot be bothered to change it. I am changing it back in the Greece article because a) that is its formal usage and b) Greece, of which the article discusses, refers to it as such.— Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎Kupraios (talk • contribs) 23:47, 5 November 2012

That is incorrect.

1. The country officially names itself 'Република Македонија' ('Republic of Macedonia').
2. Greece opposes any country calling itself 'the Republic of' any historic Greek region still within Greece's modern bounds.
   • Bulgaria also has its own objections.
3. Due to this understandable opposition, the Northern republic could only be admitted to international bodies, such as the UN, under the provisional reference 'Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'.
   • This unresolved naming dispute is also a major barrier for their accession to the EU. The process requires unanimous support EU members and resolution of the naming dispute is a precondition to receiving that support.
4. Thus 'Republic of Macedonia' is not an informal shorthand; 'FYROM' is an extended, provisional reference to stand in for the country's constitutional name until a resolution can be found.
5. The usage of 'Republic of Macedonia' in its own article is not by accident. It is based on the result of a long and heated debate here on Wikipedia. It was decided that the country's constitutional name would be used in its own article, disambiguating terms would be added to that name in other contexts ('neighbouring', 'northern', etcetera), and the usage of 'FYROM' would be avoided entirely.
   • Wikipedia has had to deal with similar naming disputes between other states and this has become the conventional solution.
   • Wikipedia is an international community where anyone can join and edit. Attempting to stay neutral and removed from such debates is not only policy, it is required for this site to be capable of functioning.
6. As it is the currently agreed upon practice for a very controversial issue, deviating from this practice may get you banned rather quickly. Wikipedia is vulnerable to 'edit wars' and such deviations without prior agreement can very quickly devolve into perpetual edit warring.

—Sowlos (talk) 10:26, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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✓ Done
I'm sure I could have done better justifying the image's existence here. We will see what happens. Thank you for the notice.
—Sowlos (talk) 09:40, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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Byzantine

Yeah I wanted to get back to you on that but so busy right now, I'll post there don't worry.--JTBX (talk) 19:34, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Labrys

Could you please provide some indication of your concerns on the relevant article talk page Talk:Labrys, instead of merely adding a panoply of problem tags to the top of the article, and leaving other people to merely guess at what you have in mind? -- AnonMoos (talk) 19:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

I second Moos's suggestion. Ditto the article Labyrinth. We know there are problems with this article, but it would be a big help if you would indicate what *you* think the problems are. -- Elphion (talk) 21:30, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry. I was disrupted in the middle of my editing.
—Sowlos (talk) 23:23, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Elphion, I focused my tag to a single section in Labyrinth. It seemed rather obvious to me that I'm indicating the section is improperly referenced and contains OR.
—Sowlos (talk) 23:30, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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RE:Byzantine Empire

Ok, I see your point sir or mam. Sorry for my actions. But now I see from in your message why it was removed --VarickWebbofSpanionte (talk) 03:50, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Ok, I will look into that! --VarickWebbofSpanionte (talk) 18:32, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

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Early greetings for the new year

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! May 2013 bring you rewarding experiences and an abundance of everything you most treasure. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:57, 28 December 2012 (UTC) Victory, Janus, Chronos, and Gaea (1532–34) by Giulio Romano

Thanks for your efforts at Roman Empire. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:57, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much. :)
—Sowlos 22:20, 28 December 2012 (UTC)