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August 2014

unanswered questions: When did she changer her name to Osborne, Osbourne, Osburn etc? She married again? And the nickname (?) Goody is introduced without explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Venqax (talk • contribs) 15:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

December 2015

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Galileo's name

The point raised by you often crops up. Important Italians are known by their Christian name. Dante's full name was Durante degli Aligheri. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.135.137.131 (talk) 10:53, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018

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March 2019

Hello, I'm KylieTastic. An edit that you recently made to General of the Air Force seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! KylieTastic (talk) 17:59, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

May 2021

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Added note

On Talk:United States Army officer rank insignia, you posted a comment in the middle of another editor's comment, which I'm sure was just an error, but just the same I corrected it for you. As it was an older thread, (one that should've been archived before now), and a lengthy thread, I moved your comment to the bottom, and added a quote of the paragraph from the comment you were replying to. As the thread is from 2007, normally one wouldn't expect a reply, but the editor you were replying to appears to still be active, so... maybe.

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September 2021

Hello, just saw your comments at Talk:Five-star rank and thought you might want to have a look at Talk:Admiral of the Navy (United States)#Higher rank review (if you haven't already) and perhaps contribute to that discussion. Also, just reminder to sign all your posts. Thanks - wolf 22:11, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023

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Acroterion (talk) 19:25, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

August 2024

I've reverted your unexplained and tendentious removal of sourced content at Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. Please don't do that again. Bishonen | tålk 16:53, 20 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Who are you, Bishonen? Venqax (talk) 19:08, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Tendentious editing is a pattern of editing that is partisan, biased, skewed, and does not maintain an editorially neutral point of view." Does this not apply to the original text, only to edits? Just asking, because there is so much tendentiousness in this article, it's hard to know where to start.Venqax (talk) 19:13, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article text doesn't go by your opinion or my opinion, but by reliable sources. The text you removed was sourced. If you want to make changes, please bring sources of your own. As for who I am, I'm an administrator who happens to watch the article in question; that's how I noticed your edits. Bishonen | tålk 19:55, 20 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

PS. I see you have continued making poor edits to Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. Sorry, but who does "they" refer to here? It seems to refer to Trump and his allies, but that's probably not what you meant. Mysterious. I suppose I can hardly ask you to source something I can't parse... oh well. Anyway, it has been reverted, not by me. I don't think you're exactly following the contentious-topics advice above: "Editors are advised to err on the side of caution if unsure whether making a particular edit is consistent with these expectations". You realize you can be topic banned from post-1992 American politics if you persist in editing in an opinionated way without regard for sources? Bishonen | tålk 20:14, 20 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Then don't tendentiate, Bishonen. If you are an administrator, you should be doing what I am, and remove tendentious adjectives, at the least. You don't need sources for that. Nothing I changed requires sourcing. E.g. "legally cast ballots" vs. "ballots they claimed were illegal". I am a professional writer and editor. It is also not aceptable to hide behind "sources" when the issue is the language itself. You can quote biased reporting and say it's sourced. You don't let Trump's claims go just because they are "sourced". That is lazy and dishonest. Do your job. Venqax (talk) 19:35, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please use edit summaries

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