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It seems you have a history of edit warring and general bullying like behavior, please use this space to explain your reverts of my edits on APA Group (Japan) & ABCD line

Please maintain proper behavior, it doesn't matter how fervently you believe something you need to discuss things and engage with others. XiAdonis (talk) 17:20, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

I have a history of protecting Wikipedia from activists, a behavior which is naturally opposed by activists. Binksternet (talk) 17:42, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

That is not an explanation of your reverts of my edits on APA Group (Japan) & ABCD line, i've created an opportunity for you to explain yourself yet you refuse to do so. Calling the person you disagree with an activist and ending the discussion there is not a proper response to a request for you to explain your reasoning on an edit. It doesn't have to be said but i am not an activist. You need to adhere to the rules of this site, im going to undo both your contributions to these 2 article while we discuss this. XiAdonis (talk) 18:14, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

EVH Amsterdam VS Nijmegen

Hey there! So I was skeptical too the first time I saw the Amsterdam pop up. But the source given seems accurate and the further I read, it seems to be the case. He was BORN in Amsterdam where his parents were living at the time. they then moved to Nijmegen within months of his birth, and that is where he spent his childhood. So it seems he was born in Nijmegen but from Amsterdam. Just trying to prevent an edit war. It is kinda funny that this never came up before. DLManiac (talk) 23:52, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Ah, that complicates things. Do you have a source describing the birth in one city and the move to the other city?

I wasn't thinking in that direction. Rather, I started searching Google books for Nijmegen and "van halen", making sure the books were published prior to Wikipedia to avoid circular sourcing. Here's what I got:

• 2003 Rock N Roll Gold Rush: A Singles Un-Cyclopedia says born in Nijmegen. By Maury Dean, a PhD musicologist, a writer of pop music books.
• 1996 The Rock Who's Who, page 701. "Edward Van Halen (b. Jan. 26, 1957, Nijmegen, Netherlands)"
• 1995 The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, volume 4. Says Nijmegen for both brothers.
• 1994 Pioneers of Rock and Roll: 100 Artists who Changed the Face of Rock, page 273. Says Nijmegen.

Which hopefully explains my editing at the EVH biography. Binksternet (talk) 00:20, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Phony accusations of fancruft

I am NOT doing fancruft, I am correcting grammatical errors. There are two "the"s in the first sentence in the Plot section, for example, or were you too stupid to see that? And how many times do I have to tell you, the reference to Rick Taylor is for a PA Congressman, not a comic book colorist! Heroic Age's real name is Pat Garrahy, who worked for DC Comics. You can look it up on the Internet, for Heaven's sake! I suggest you try the DC Database first, or do you consider that site to be beneath you?

Who do you think you are anyway, buster? I DEMAND that you explain your actions! Who are you, huh? And what in the world is "fancruft", anyway?Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 02:29, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

First problem is that you have been editing logged out and logged in on the same articles, which is a violation of WP:MULTIPLE. You have been using the Malcolmlucascollins account and the Florida IP range Special:Contributions/2600:1700:7E31:5710:0:0:0:0/64.

Second problem is that you are adding more text to comics topics without citing WP:Reliable sources. You appear to be violating the hard policy of WP:No original research. Binksternet (talk) 04:03, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Sometimes I log in and sometimes I forget to. That's not wrong, is it?

I'm also trying to copy the long version of the article (which is based on the original article) for a friend of mine so that he can have a copy of. It's not my fault I keep finding mistakes that were mostly made by me and have to keep switching back and forth to make the copies. You switched it and now I've got to help him find it so he can make another copy of all 22 pages of the article you took off, However, every time I've done so recently, I have switched it back to what you switched it to. If you want it that way, fine, I'll keep it that way. But don't tell me that I can't make copies of the article that I want. If you would've left it alone in the first place (as you did for a long time until now), I wouldn't be in the fix I'm in! Can't you please just let well enough alone?

And I am using reliable sources: the comics that make up the stories themselves. I've read them dozens of times and I know what's in them. Don't tell me that isn't wrong!

Here's a few more mistakes I've found: Justice League Task Force #30 takes place at the same time as The Ray (vol. 2) #19. There's a footnote in it that says so. Take a look and see for yourself if you don't believe me. And in "Supervillains that accepted Neron's offer" the "S" entries are not alphabetical. It should be Shrapnel. Sledge, Louie Snipe, and Spellbinder. How could anyone miss that one, including you?

And you still haven't told what "fancruft" is.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 05:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Glossary#Cruft. Fancruft is a menace and we are constantly trimming it away. Wikipedia is not a fan site. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:11, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia is supposed to be built on WP:SECONDARY sources. Primary sources such as the comics themselves should only be used sparingly. All articles on Wikipedia should be a summary of the secondary sources that are written about the topic. In the case of the comics, it should be non-comics sources talking about the comics, for instance the book The Golden Age of Batman: The Greatest Covers of Detective Comics from the '30s to the '50s if you were editing the article about early Batman comics.

So what happens when an article is discovered that is based on primary sources? Very often it is largely or completely rewritten to get rid of the stuff that is not found in secondary sources. Binksternet (talk) 08:00, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Malcolmlucascollins, one of the things I'm seeing is that you are violating the WP:SYNTH policy when you take various primary sources and compile a list of something that cannot be found all together in one source. For instance, the Underworld Unleashed sections "Superheroes who accepted Neron's offer" and "Superheroes who rejected Neron's offer" should be based on something written in secondary sources, such as a book about Mark Waid's writing style, or something similar. Instead, from the very beginning in 2005, the article has violated SYNTH, by compiling lists of characters, and a lot of your work continues that problem. Binksternet (talk) 08:34, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Do you hate me or something? Now you've removed the Action Comics team-ups from DC Comics Presents! And please don't tell me I need to find a secondary source as a reference. Where am I going to find one that deals with that subject in this day and age? Please tell me that if you're so smart! You know those issues are similar to DC Comics Presents! Everyone knows that! It's comic book history!Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 20:08, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

The kind of work you do will be very much welcomed by the folks at https://comics.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page, and all the related wikis devoted to comics. But on Wikipedia, the founding policy is to summarize secondary sources for the reader – not to synthesize new information from primary sources. Wikipedia's answer to a lack of secondary sources is to omit the information. If secondary sources are not writing about it, it's not important enough. Binksternet (talk) 20:29, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

The section you quoted in your revision of DC Comics Presents says it's all right to put number symbols on comic book issue numbers, so I put my previous version back. Also, what's wrong with putting the collected edition books in black italics? Every comic book article on here has done that. Take a look at any one of them and you'll see it. Next, what's wrong with putting the word "The" in the character names? That's how they're referred to. However, I'll go back and revert Shazam! back to Captain Marvel, even though it's listed as Shazam! on the two issues' covers where he appears. Finally, two issues in this series do have multiple characters teaming up with Superman, but to save space, I lumped the characters in each one together and referred to their issues only once, since that's all that's really needed, plus it avoids confusion. Besides, in the "Whatever Happened to...?" section, two characters are lumped in #28, so your alteration of what I did to those two issues seems, to me, hypocritical.

I really hope I don't have to do this all over again for once and that you'll see that this way is right in the long run. I've done nothing wrong in this case and do not deserve this ill-treatment from anyone.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 02:18, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Mats Löfving

On 6 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mats Löfving, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mats Löfving. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mats Löfving), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 00:02, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Psychedelic Funk edit

I did nothing wrong. Clicking on Funk in the Psychedelic music template directed you to P-Funk, which is a group, not a genre. I was trying to fix that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C7:C201:C640:F47E:5B35:8067:73AA (talk) 01:08, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

SPI

In light of this and this, please consider opening an SPI and ask for a sleeper-check. The checkusers will be non-committal on the IP itself, but they might tag and bag sleepers. One reason they may decline is that this IP address belongs to a school system so there may be a lot of false positives. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 01:50, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate your suggestion to the guy, to find another wiki to keep him busy. I hope the suggestion works. Binksternet (talk) 20:30, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

The Emancipation of Mimi

Hello Binksternet. Could you take a look at the article The Emancipation of Mimi? I fear that MariaJaydHicky is genrewarring through various IPs [1][2][3] (they're all from UK). The most recent one in a edit has removed every genre leaving only R&B [4]. Thank you. Blueberry72 (talk) 20:10, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Question.

Hi, I've been trying to improve the article on Garth Ennis, which I found to be very well-cited but disorganized. One thing I noticed is that Ennis is currently in the Critics of Christianity category. While it is true that Ennis is critical of Christianity and religion in general, he is not what you would call an career atheist; he doesn't do lectures on atheism or write books dismantling Christianity or that sort of thing. Basically, he just writes comic books. Some of them reflect his mistrust of religion and blasphemy is a recurring theme in his work, but I am not sure if that's enough to deem him a critic of Christianity. A while back, Nick Cave was added to the critics of atheism category, but was removed because, while Cave has criticized atheism and positive religious messages as a theme in his songs, he's essentially just a rock musician. He doesn't make a career out of criticizing atheism like many Christian apologists, he doesn't publicly debate atheists, etc. Therefore, there's not sufficient cause for including him as a critic of atheism. Am I correct in this assessment, and if so, would the same hold true for Ennis? If so I can remove him from the category. I just ask because I am unsure and I see you editing a lot of the articles I look at so you seem to know your stuff.Lynchenberg (talk) 21:45, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

You have a good case for removal, L. A Wikipedia editor taking Ennis's fictional works and trying to fit their interpreted messages on Ennis the man is a mistake. (It's fine if a WP:SECONDARY source is cited doing it.)

You can point to the George Carlin page where atheism and the atheist category have been repeatedly added and just as often removed because, even though he pinioned religion and religious faith in his comedy, he did not ever say "I am an atheist myself", and he did not speak out as an atheist.

The guideline for removing categories, any categories that are not strongly supported by verifiable article text, is WP:CATDEF. You can quote that guideline when you remove stuff. Binksternet (talk) 00:10, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks!Lynchenberg (talk) 07:18, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Instruments

You were the one who removed the instruments parameter from glam rock so I assume you removed from others as well. My question is why? JJULE (talk) 01:32, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

JJULE, at the time, it seemed like there was consensus for the removal across all musical genres, but further discussion raised some questions. The parameter has always been troublesome in that very few editors adding to it were taking the information from WP:Reliable sources, and it was not supported by cited article text in the great majority of cases. Instrumentation of a genre is often complex whereas the infobox is intended for fast, easy answers.

If you would like to have the instruments listed in the infobox, please start with a section about instruments in the article body. Binksternet (talk) 03:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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Society of Saint Pius X

Dear User:Binksternet, it's been a while since I've crossed paths with you on Wikipedia and I hope that you're doing well! I appreciate that you restored the content that was deleted at the Society of Saint Pius X article. I'll try to also expand that further soon. I hope you have a great day and thanks again! With regards, Anupam^Talk 13:54, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

I went ahead and expanded that section. Feel free to ameliorate it in any way that you find suitable. I think that The Atlantic article covers a lot of things about SSPX that could be added there. Kind regards, Anupam^Talk 14:03, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I visited that article because of the recent block of another Esoglou sock; I was working to roll back some of the sock's disruption. Binksternet (talk) 15:14, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Calm down

I made one edit on a page which you reverted; no one's involved in an "edit war", Michael — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justdoinsomeedtits (talk • contribs) 14:25, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

The edit made me think it was a continuation of edit warring from someone else.[5][6] The dancer label has been removed here by Almostangelic123 and here by myself. The motive is that Bush's dancing is always connected to her own musical performance, that she is not known for making choreography for others, or for dancing the choreography of others. Binksternet (talk) 16:06, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Edit warring IP

Hey Bink. This is a LTA IP previously blocked by Materialscientist. I have brought it to their attention here. Robvanvee 07:57, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Stanford Hoover reverts

Hey, I know we disagree a lot but I wanted to thank you for restoring the Stanford part to mentions of the Hoover Institution. FYI, there was a discussion about it here [[7]]. Springee (talk) 18:22, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Khilieexodia17

Hey Binksternet. The initial R in the name of the sockpuppet (secret code), who has notably edit on Grand Chase [8] compared to others, see the SPI archive. Not only that, s/he also focused on Maroon 5, Linkin Park and other rock band articles. Can you open the SPI? 2402:1980:82A7:D3F2:D61F:C7D1:1382:AD2A (talk) 05:36, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

HarveyCarter

he is back https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Axis_powers&diff=990135564&oldid=990063452

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The duck quacketh

The duck quacketh but it hasn't been declared official by the game warden yet.

Oh, and the duck has found a brand new song to add to his current playlist. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 16:50, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

An administrator silenced the noise. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:19, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Some Girls

I'm sorry about that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.170.187 (talk) 21:50, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

FYI new article on "Rainbow Sign"

I saw you had made a comment on Talk page for Kamala Harris on 22 August 2020, asking "If your aim is to highlight progressive, intellectual and political themes, why is there nothing in the biography about the Rainbow Sign in Berkeley, a community center of Black activism?" FYI I have started a page on that cultural center: The Rainbow Sign. It will benefit if others can expand and integrate it into Wikipedia, perhaps mentioning in the Harris article if appropriate; I am reaching out in case you or others have time/interest b/c my time (and knowledge) is limited. All the best --Presearch (talk) 07:58, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for starting the page! Nice work. Binksternet (talk) 15:24, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Revert on Bucks County, PA

Hello. I saw your revert pop up in my watchlist and was curious how you came up with it being a block evasion? The basis of the paragraph you removed has been in the article for over a decade, granted none of it is sourced. --Michael Greiner 04:09, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

I worked backwards from this edit which popped up on my watchlist, the IP making a pretty significant, disruptive change without reference. I saw right away that the IP range – Special:Contributions/2605:E000:100D:C571:0:0:0:0/64 from Palm Desert, California – is doing this kind of stuff all the freekin' time, which means I wanted to stop the person. I saw that one of the frequently visited articles was List of ethnic enclaves in North American cities, and I went back through the article history to see what other IPs from Palm Desert might have been making the same changes, for the purpose of tracing the timeline of this one editor. The IP6 range went back to June 2019, and right before that, the IP Special:Contributions/67.49.85.100 from Palm Desert was also adding unreferenced stuff. There was a shuffle in December 2018... before that it looks like this person was in Irvine for six months using Special:Contributions/12.218.47.124, still editing lots of articles about Palm Desert topics. Before May 2018 the IP Special:Contributions/67.49.89.214 was active. In 2017 and 2016, some other IPs from nearby Santee and El Cajon were doing the same stuff, and in 2016 and 2015, the range Special:Contributions/2605:E000:FDCA:4200:0:0:0:0/64 was active. A parallel investigation of the article List of Mexican-American communities showed the same stuff from the same IPs, but there was also a litter of indeffed users, a bunch of them pointing back to a sockpuppet case page: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HipHopVisionary. The blocked users I saw with suspicious names and behavior are listed below.

• Suburban mexican Gypsy (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Cher Lloyd Mexican stan (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Palmdale 9999 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Gipsyfornia (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Gypsy Mayan queen (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Desert cocoa (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Cali kush (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Gypsy Aztec (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Palmdale California Covina boy (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Playboi Carti Mexican fan (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Palmdale Mexican (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

In July and September 2019, these socks were confirmed by checkuser, but the oldest account wasn't immediately clear. The checkusers settled on HipHopVisionary which was registered in April 2015, but I think it started five years earlier, in April 2010 with Mike D 26 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki).

Mike D 26 also used some IPs from the Southern California desert, including Special:Contributions/71.102.21.238. He said he lost his password, so the username was blocked. Mike D 26 and all of the socks and IPs perform many little edits in a row, using the same style. They are interested in several different pools of topics including hip hop/pop music and the mixing of cultures and ethnicities.

Hope that helps, Michael. Cheers... Binksternet (talk) 05:53, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

List of unreliable sources

Thanks for the information, I have read and now I have checked the page you referred me to WP: ALBUMAVOID. I will try to restore the information with other reliable sources. Congratulations on your personal page. Greetings and good day from Italy :) Luigi936 ( talk) 21:55, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Wow!

Wow! You have made *so* many articles! So cool! Scalyhawk121534 (talk) 21:28, 30 November 2020 (UTC)