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DYK for Vishtaspa
On September 21, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vishtaspa, which you recently nominated. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Neutral point of view tag added. this only talks about the women in england or europe. there were people living outside of europe...) User:Warrior4321.
Of course it does, because Middle Ages is very much a Christian-centered perspective of history. The Aztecs, the Algonquins, the Brahmans, the Arabs or the Chinese probably have different names to mean the same thing, and some of those non-Christian cultures haven't entirely left the medieval mentality. I am of course open-minded about including non-European perspectives on medieval women, provided that sufficient cultural contexts are given. ADM (talk) 22:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
[1] I think Camelbinky was just joking around (the discussion is based on that "unicorn" joke). I've known him for quite a while and he's a good editor, so I think you should leave him a message regarding your concern. Cheers, ZooFari23:00, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh my, I just made the same mistake by not reading above! My posting below is regarding this same issue, I had not realized ZooFari had beaten me to it. Thank you for the kind words Zoofari. I agree that this editor was acting in good faith but that some research on his/her part in reading the context may have been needed.Camelbinky (talk) 23:57, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Village Pump
You reverted my post, and I can understand why you thought it may have been vandalism. Zoofari knows my humor and therefore put it back, and anyone who had read the whole thread would have gotten the joke, you therefore may not have read the thread. I have a few suggestions you may want to start doing in the future when looking for vandalism on noticeboards and the village pump: 1- we dont censor on the village pump and therefore even if my post had been an act of vandalism, ignoring it instead of removing it is probably the way to go; 2- you may want to read the entire thread so you can get the context that postings you think are vandalism might turn out to not be vandalism after all; 3- if someone is a regular contributor to the village pump (as I am) chances are the editor didnt suddenly decide to become a vandal so some slack should be given especially if another editor has reverted your deletion; which leads me to the last point- if someone has reverted your decisions that someone was a vandal, that probably means they were a vandal and instead of reverting again you may want to contact the original person or the editor that reverted your decision to find out why. I understand you were acting in good faith, but a little research on your part could have saved you some time, could have saved Zoofari some time that he had to take to revert you, and saved time for the editor that reverted you the second time you decided you didnt need to investigate it. Oh, and it would have saved me the time of writting this extremely long diatribe and you from having to read it, and I'm sure respond to it, but feel free to save both of us the time by not responding, my feelings wont be hurt. I just ask you to please be a bit more careful and do some researching before reverting things, especially on discussion forums where jokes along with open and frank discussion is encouraged to lighten the heated tensions that may occur. Thank you for your time, and no hard feelings, just please dont revert me again, thank you.Camelbinky (talk) 23:53, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I almost finished the article. The remaning work is some copy editing, re-organizing the citations, and adding some pictures. Could you please help me on copy editing?--WIMYV? (talk) 01:57, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rfa
I closed my Rfa about an hour ago and left a strongly worded closing statement. I wanted to make sure that you know that I did not mean it in reference to you. Your remarks were kind and supportive and I am very appreciative. I, for the most part, left the message that I did because I felt that I offered a legitimate suggestion to be taken into consideration for future Rfa's that was dismissed because I was power-hungry, an accusation that I am deeply resent. In any case, I hope to see you around the encyclopedia.
Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found
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There are still a few things remaining, such as the bullet and the size of lead. There are a few thing left that don't have a {{done}} tag, and are required for GA criteria. warrior432121:28, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
