LastDodo

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Marek.69 ^talk 14:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you. Jayjg ^(talk) 15:27, 14 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Re. Fowell Buxton. You are correct Fowell is his second name. The entry makes no sense at all as Fowell Buxton. It should be headed Thomas Fowell Buxton. Makes no sense as Fowell Buxton. He was one if the greatest social reformers in the nineteenth century. He was responsible for the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 which emancipated 800,000 slaves throughout the British Empire on August 1, 1834 and put an end to slave ownership as well as being responsible for many other reforms. His correct title in full was Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton. He was known as "the Liberator". Can I leave you to see this is changed? William Macadam (talk) 11:16, 7 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Firefangledfeathers (talk) 16:58, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Could you explain this? I don't see that I've done anything controversial. LastDodo (talk) 17:06, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

"It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date." Drmies (talk) 17:07, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I guess this is about my edit to 'Novelist', since I see you have reverted it. I had written something on the talkpage some time ago (it is the bottom section currently) but got no response from the other user (sadads) who kept reverting my edits without discussion. Perhaps you can go to there and offer your opinion if they will not. LastDodo (talk) 17:13, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Well, I didn't place the template here; I just happened to see that it was placed. Firefangledfeathers is a name that attracts attention, as does "LastDodo". I should tell User:Gogo Dodo that they might consider starting a club. Anyway, yes, I did revert that edit, because I found it problematic, and it happens to be an article that I know my old friend User:Sadads has worked on extensively. Drmies (talk) 18:18, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Like Drmies said, this is not a sign that you've done anything controversial. I posted it after noticing your edit at Talk:Stonewall (charity). Firefangledfeathers (talk) 17:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Okay so its just automatic for editing the Stonewall talkpage? Sorry this is the first time this has happened to me. I guess I just wait until a review is done, or what? LastDodo (talk) 18:15, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

No no no, no one is going to "review" your work and give you a pass or fail, that's not what this is at all. It is really just an informative thing. Drmies (talk) 18:19, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Okay so its just a message telling me 'beware, you have edited a page with additional and more stringent rules apply'? Sorry for being a dummie. LastDodo (talk) 18:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

That's pretty much it! No worries. The "discretionary sanctions" thing is a pretty weird phenomenon and you're not the first to get thrown off by the alert template. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 18:39, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for beginning the discussion at Talk:Hakeem Oluseyi. That's exactly the right step to take when there is a dispute over content in an article. I appreciate you questioning the revert properly on the talk page rather than edit-warring, it's refreshing!   Schazjmd (talk) 16:08, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

It seemed a perfectly reasonable revert, albeit one worth discussing :) LastDodo (talk) 17:57, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Your edit to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi, could you paste the paragraph here, so I can edit it? Thanks LastDodo (talk) 10:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Text that violates the copyright policy cannot be hosted on any page in Wikipedia so Diannaa cannot paste it on your user talk page. Schazjmd (talk) 14:54, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

You can view the overlapping content by clicking on the iThenticate link in the CopyPatrol report. — Diannaa (talk) 15:28, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks LastDodo (talk) 17:14, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply