User talk:Improve2009

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[edit] Please dont remove 'tags' without adding appropriate references

Hello, recently, you have again removed a {attribution needed} tag from the article Affirmative action. The tags have been restored.

Please do not remove tags like that from the article without providing a citation to validate that the statement is accurate. The citation should be from a reliable source - a third party published item that has some type of editorial review board or peer review. A blog or other personal web site or a wiki is generally not considered a reliable source.

Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia! TheRedPenOfDoom (talk) 11:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Bob Casey, Jr., did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Tomdobb (talk) 02:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Michael Nutter, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Tomdobb (talk) 02:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POV Pushing

You've been warned numerous times across several accounts about your POV pushing on biography articles. These articles are meant to be about their subjects and details about primary dates or winners that do not involve them are not appropriate for these articles. Please stop adding this information. Any further additions of this type will be considered vandalism and appropriate action will be taken. Tomdobb (talk) 11:27, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A fistful of dollars

Hi, Improve2009. More than once recently you've changed "US$58 million" to "58 million dollars" or even "58 million dollars from Americans", without any explanation. I asked at WT:MOSNUM#Big money whether there was any stylistic reason to prefer the spelled-out version, and nobody there could think of one. Can you explain why you feel this is an improvement? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:27, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barack Obama changes

Please stop making the same minor changes to Barack Obama. You are overlinking and adding unimportant details that are spoiling the quality of the prose. -- Scjessey (talk) 12:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Barack Obama. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. You have been warned about this sort of editing before. Please stop. -- Scjessey (talk) 16:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on David Cook (singer). Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Aspects (talk) 02:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Building on this, please see the discussion on the article's talk page before reverting my edit again. We are attempting to reach a consensus there. Thank you. --InDeBiz1 Review me! / Talk to me! 10:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Ditto. Please discuss it and get a consensus before making the same change repeatedly. If you still disagree you can take it to mediation and may not like the answer there either.--MartinezMD (talk) 10:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Junior Senator

Do not change this again, please. I absolutely will start wiki process against you if you keep POV pushing on this. --BenBurch (talk) 03:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Got your message. Thanks! Shouldn't have come down so hard on you, but edit wars aren't helpful, and the term is a common one. EVERY state has a Junior and a Senior Senator. Obama is the Junior senator from Illinois, and Durbin is the senior senator. --BenBurch (talk) 17:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Obama

Why do you keep making the same, unhelpful edits to Barack Obama? Are you trying to be intentionally disruptive? -- Scjessey (talk) 02:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

The "for all Americans" bit is redundant, because otherwise it wouldn't be "universal". -- Scjessey (talk) 12:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I see what you are getting at, but I still maintain that "for all Americans" is unnecessary. "Universal Health Care" should only apply to US Citizens and legal immigrants, because anyone "undocumented" would not be in the system. I am a "legal" immigrant (I came to the US in 2001 and I am a permanent foreign resident) so I would qualify, but illegal aliens would certainly not. In any case, the distinction between "universal" and the superset of "universal" plus illegal (or "universal" minus illegal) would need to be properly referenced, or it would constitute original research. -- Scjessey (talk) 10:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Abortion appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. KillerChihuahua?!? 01:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 2009

Britney Spears Please stop changing the spellings in this article. It is an issue that has been discussed at great length. Wiki policy, Lynn Truss, Fowlers, The Oxford English Dictionary and many other sources will show you that only plurals loose the post apostrophe s, not just words that end in S. Just because many news stories and even teachers get this wrong, it does not make it correct. Any further occurrences of this edit will be considered vandalism. Thanks. MrMarmite (talk) 08:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)