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Happy editing! Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 09:11, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025

Your recent editing history at Suchir Balaji shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. TNM101 (chat) 10:02, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't edit warring because I was removing contentious and unsourced material from the biography of a recently deceased person. I can stop watching the page all the same, if you like. Wikiuser815 (talk) 13:37, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The point here wasn't about the edit warring, it was about the violation of the WP:3RR rule by you. Even if you were removing contentious and unsourced material, you must not revert on the same page more than three times in 24-hours, no matter if it was right or not. TNM101 (chat) 13:42, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's confusing, because I did just that on the Robert O'Neill page and got nothing but thanks and praise for it from admins and experienced editors (you don't seem to be an admin), because I was reverting unsourced/poorly sourced contentious material. Maybe you should read the "exemptions" section of the page you linked. Wikiuser815 (talk) 13:56, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, reverts one and two in my "edit war" were me restoring an "original research" tag which was removed in error Special:diff/1271274941, and restoring a date, which was changed in error (also in good faith) Special:diff/1271272444. If this is violating the letter of WP:3RR (which it obviously isn't) it certainly isn't violating the spirit of it. Wikiuser815 (talk) 14:12, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I saw these three diffs [1] [2] [3] and came here. I will admit that the third one was genuine removal of poorly sourced BLP content, however the first two weren't quite unsourced. One of the main reasons was that you didn't attempt to engage with DivideBy0, which made me post this. Now, upon further examination, it does seem that you were genuinely trying to make the article as accurate as possible. Apologies from my side. Maybe my decision was a bit hasty, who knows. Thank you so much for positively replying to me TNM101 (chat) 14:30, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well I was just about to change "unsourced" to "poorly sourced" in my original reply, before you replied, and then I couldn't. The claim that the police 'revised the case' is nowhere to be found in the source User:DivideBy0 used. And the "but" heavily implies that they are rethinking the "suicide" conclusion, which is also not implied by the article. That's why I asked that editor to provide quotes from the ref, I know that what that editor was adding to the entry isn't in the Mercury News article.

As it happens, the idea that the police revised their conclusion is a rumour that's circulating on the internet, and I've tried and failed to verify it myself.

I might have reached out to that user if I'd had the time. It was either revert the edits or leave them be, knowing they're poorly sourced, but insidiously convincing (they convinced you, didn't they?). And by "insidious" I mean harmful in a subtle, hard-to-detect way, not implying malice on the part of that editor. Wikiuser815 (talk) 15:22, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably did, and I must appreciate your willingness to patiently explain your view of the situation. I'll see you around, hopefully for a good thing TNM101 (chat) 15:31, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some info

Hey there, I was hoping if you could help me find out Suchir Balaji's ethnicity, i hear that he is of tamil origins, but i couldn’t verify it, I would be grateful if you could help me in this regard. Codonified (talk) 18:20, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey :D I wasn't able to find any sources discussing his ethnicity in detail, I don't think his parents have mentioned it.

In English language sources, it seems like he's always "Indian-American", "of Indian-origin", etc. but nothing more specific than that. I tried searching non-English sources, but I wasn't able to find any mentioning his ethnicity. I don't speak any South Asian languages, though, so I wasn't able to look very hard.

Someone changed his ethnicity to "Tamil-American" without citing any sources. I reverted that, on the basis that WP:BLP extends to the recently deceased (WP:BDP). Wikiuser815 (talk) 19:59, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

well thanks, I really wanted to know his ethnicity, as you know Indian is a Nationality and not an ethnicity, but i guess this will remain unsolved for now. Codonified (talk) 12:10, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, do you think we should add his picture into the article, as that would be more fitting. Codonified (talk) 19:30, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't personally think that's necessary, since images of him are easily found on the internet. I also don't know that there are any copyright-free images of him available. Wikiuser815 (talk) 13:24, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]