User talk:Johnsgreat

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Harry Bloomfield

Then your job would be finding better sources - I know it because he told me - it's not exactly a secret - Elliot Spitzer helped prosecute him - find the court records...this is a collaborative effort, and the job of everyone here is to add and help -

Oh, unless, of course, you ARE Harry Bloomfield...

Here are some active links - I'm not sure how to include them - I would think the official New York Prosecutor's office would be credible enough

http://www.manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2003-06-26a.shtml

and

http://search.manhattanda.org/search/search.cgi?q=harry+bloomfield

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons. Thank you.

To elaborate: the first source you provided, rgm.com, does not pass as a reliable source, and another link, to NYC District Attorney's website is a "404 not found". That newspaper alone is not enough for such serious claims - also please remember that even the worst things must be described neutrally. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 14:50, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2009

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July 2014

Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Bog body. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

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ERA Style

Hi Johnsgreat. I have once again reverted your edits which changed the dating style on an established article. As previously suggested, you should please read the relevant Wikipedia policy concerning this at WP:ERA. It specifically states: Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content. Seek consensus on the talk page before making the change. Open the discussion under a subhead that uses the word "era". Briefly state why the style is inappropriate for the article in question. A personal or categorical preference for one era style over the other is not justification for making a change. Editors who persist in editing against Wikipedia policy are generally considered disruptive. If you have any questions, please ask. Thanks. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 18:44, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You have been warned about your persistent era vandalism and I see you are persisting in this. Since you seem disinclined to respect Wikipedia guidelines, I have recommended that your account be blocked. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 11:18, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As you only edit sporadically and this was a little while ago I'm not blocking you at the moment. But if you do this again, I will. I also suggest that you stay away from anything to do with gender as your edits there don't seem to meet our WP:NPOV policy. Doug Weller talk 17:32, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2016

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Your recent edits to Brock Turner

I removed most of your contributed text, left the citations, and for the reasons I gave in the edit summaries. I just want to stress here that, although I have no personal knowledge of the case, even reliable sources are turning up evidence that this case is not quite so starkly one-sided as many sources now tend to present. Going through these sources has given me some sense of the reason for the leniency of the sentence. So I'm not unsympathetic to your point of view. However, Wikipedia articles do need to be accurately sourced (especially under WP:BLP) and editors do need maintain a neutral point of view. As well, they need to try to avoid WP:SYNTH inferences. I happen to believe it's not implausible that the judge was influenced by these two letters. However, it's also not implausible that he instructed court clerks to not show him the letters (at least until after sentencing), the better to arrive at an unbiased and fair sentence. I don't know. I don't know whether you know. And if you know only from personal knowledge (maybe you do!), I'm afraid that's still not enough for Wikipedia. Yakushima (talk) 11:37, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your Josef Mengele edit

Hi there, just to let you know I've reverted the Josef Mengele article back to the last stable version before vandalism crept in over the past few days. My revert has also undone your edit of 2 January. Just to explain...

Meanwhile, Zvi Aharoni, one of the Mossad agents who had been involved in the Eichmann capture, was placed in charge of a team of agents charged with tracking down Mengele and bringing him to trial in Israel.

Your version (above) has awkward repetition of charge/charged so I've put it back to:

Meanwhile, Zvi Aharoni, one of the Mossad agents who had been involved in the Eichmann capture, was placed in charge of a team of agents tasked with tracking down Mengele and bringing him to trial in Israel.

The word "tasked" is normal in the register of detective agencies, so it fits in this context.

Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 21:01, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I corrected a common error that uneducated people make. The person who blocked me did so because he is less educated that I am, and motivated for reasons other than accuracy, which is the FUNDAMENTAL point of any encyclopedia. I have two degrees in history from arguably the best university in the world, and no honest historian would incorporate something he knew to be fiction in his writing. There is no such thing as a "common era", it is a fiction invented by radical rabbis in the mid 1800s. The way to change history is to do something now, and in the future, it will be history. However, no one can go back in time 2,000 years, wave a magic wand, and poof voila create a "common era", especially in a world of thousands of civilisations and governments and peoples etc. Common? Methinks not. And if you did have this magic power, by what stroke of fortuitous coincidence would you manage to start your new era in the same year Jesus was once said to have been born? There are plenty of other calendars to choose from, but if you are going to use our calendar, don't lie about it. There IS no common era, it is a LIE, and thus is not history and has no place as a citation in an historical document. Fiction, yes. History, no.

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You are maligning thousands of theologians, historians, archaeologists and others who use BCE and CE. Your statement about radical rabbis inventing it is historically, surprising in someone who claims two degrees in history (from where?). It's true that it became more popular in the 19th century due to its use by Jewish religious scholars, but I'd really appreciate a source for your "radical rabbis" bit - I assume you have one. It is an extremely bad idea to insult editors - please read WP:AGF, and I have degrees from two of the best universities in the world. I'm hardly uneducated. It's a principle of both Wikipedia academia that all controversial claims of facts should be sourced, but your comment about me and your claim about CE were not and can't be. Doug Weller talk 14:31, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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