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-Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 04:56, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Reversion of some of your edits

I am afraid that I have had to revert four revisions you made to articles: Special:Diff/1081128479 and Special:Diff/1081128697 to Scythian languages, Special:Diff/1081284226 to Hephthalites, and Special:Diff/1082088203 to Ahmad Shah Durrani. In each case, it looks as if the edit was either entirely unintentional or, where it was intentional, did something different from what you intended - I think you probably realised this with the first of the two edits to Scythian languages, but it also looks as if you didn't realise what had actually gone wrong with that edit (you inserted two words right in the middle of a third word), so the second one didn't properly correct it.

It looks to me as if you are carrying out a large number of mostly small edits at speed - you may need to be reviewing them a little more carefully than you have been doing, to make sure that what you have actually done is what you intended to do. Because when they don't, they can leave problems worse than the ones you have corrected. And I am fairly certain that I have not found anything like all of your bad edits, as I've only looked at your edits on about a dozen articles, a small proportion of your total edits.

Having said that, the majority of your edits look fine - some are correcting things that I wouldn't bother with (particularly considering that we have editors here writing in at least half a dozen different but equally valid varieties of English from around the world - and that's just including those with English as their first language), and very occasionally, I suspect that you have misunderstood what the previous text of an article was trying to say and (probably unintentionally) changed the meaning of what you were correcting. But usually, you have certainly been improving the previous text.

Best wishes for your future here.

PWilkinson (talk) 16:03, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Steph Curry 500 Playoff Threes

Hello, I just did a quick check and saw that your edit on Steph Curry getting 500 playoff threes in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Grizzlies was wrong (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/10/sport/steph-curry-warriors-grizzlies-celtics-bucks-spt-intl/index.html). I did a quick check and found that it was actually in Game 4 as seen in the links here: https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-stephen-curry-solidifies-3-point-god-status-with-epic-playoff-first/ https://www.nba.com/news/stephen-curry-becomes-1st-player-in-nba-history-with-500-made-postseason-3s

I have fixed the edit already, just a heads up that you can use sports-focused sites just to ensure accuracy as much as possible. Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 06:30, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for this. Maybe i did a typo error. I'll follow your advise regarding my sources on my next edits. Thanks again. WonderCanada (talk) 16:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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Looking through your edits, it appears several of them are copied or otherwise closely phrased from the news sources you cite. I'm reverted some of these, please do not copy from sources in the future. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 14:11, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

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Nejat Society moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Nejat Society. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources, it needs more sources to establish notability, it has too many problems of language or grammar and Currently, the article makes no sense. Is it about an NGO? There is nothing about an NGO apart from the first sentence. The only other section doesn't mention the NGO in its two sentences. Incubate in draftspace, expand fully, and actually talk about the subject.. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 21:38, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Addressed, thanks. If there is anything further you'd like me to look at please let me know before moving it to draft space again. WonderCanada (talk) 19:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:02, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Revert on NCRI

Hello, you removed text and a citation detailing lobbying activities by the NCRI, waving these away as "not being improvements to the article". I have manually reverted this change, based on your lack of an explanation or justification for it. NCRI lobbying in DC and paid speeches are well-documented in mainstream sources (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and these facts are important to understanding support of that organization in the states. Do you find this lobbying and compensation unimportant or irrelevant? Or do you dispute the veracity of NBC, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, etc.? Theodore Christopher (talk) 16:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi, lobbying was already mentioned in that section, but if you'd prefer to keep your reference, we can combine this content to avoid repeating it. By the way, would you mind providing direct quotations from your sources that identify Giuliani and Lieberman as lobbyists for the NCRI? I was able to locate this information in the first NBC source, but having trouble finding it in the others. WonderCanada (talk) 17:52, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

You'll note that I never accused Giuliani or Lieberman of being lobbyists for the NCRI. Only that they were paid speakers. NBC does state that Giuliani was paid (but that he "would not say how much the group pays him"). Admittedly, my statement on Lieberman doesn't have any quotes to back it up--but, considering the importance of speaker fees to recognition of the NCRI, he could well be replaced by a speaker whose payment is better-documented, such as Bob Filner or Elaine Chao]. The other sources I linked aren't specifically about Giuliani or Lieberman, but rather about the importance of lobbying to the NCRI/MeK's cause, which I figured you were trying to expunge from the page entirely. In any event, characterizing the fact of NCRI lobbying as a matter of opinion, which is done in your linked diff, is not serious, as there are receipts for its lobbying in DC.

I'd also be interested in talking about the lede---I am very willing to provide you with reputable sources which discuss NCRI constitutes a political wing of the MeK, not an independent organization; it's my opinion that many of the sources which claim otherwise (that it's a parliament-in-exile which just so happens to back up the MeK at every step) are often from MeK/NCRI themselves. But I don't mean to act rashly. Theodore Christopher (talk) 18:44, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

I had reverted you because the lobbying was already noted in that section. Also if Giuliani and Lieberman are not involved in lobbying, then a more neutral depiction would be to mention in one sentence that some of these supporters have been paid to speak, and in a different sentence that there has also been lobbying by the group (unless we find out some of these paid speakers are also lobbyists). I also agree that the NCRI constitutes a political wing of the MeK, but from what I understand these are two separate legal entities, with the former also incorporating other groups, which is significant nuance. WonderCanada (talk) 19:38, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I understand. I just published some new changes, let me know what you think. As for the lede, which I have not changed, they are indeed de jure separate entities, but leaving their de facto overlap out of the lede is negligent-Wikipedia pages convey more than just what a thing represents itself as. Sources including the AP and the US federal government agree on the overlap. Theodore Christopher (talk) 16:16, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Some of your edits are constructive, but others do not improve the article. We should summarize sources rather than isolate claims already supported elsewhere. If both Euractiv and The New York Times report lobbying, a neutral phrasing such as "sources state they lobby" is more appropriate. Please also avoid editorializing. WonderCanada (talk) 06:35, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Again, "sources state they lobby" is an unproductive use of wikivoice which casts doubt on the very factual assertion, confirmed by primary sources like OpenSecrets (already cited), that the NCRI does lobby. The only source that disputes that fact is the NCRI itself---a tiny minority of coverage on the issue. I also put the Euractiv article further down because the first paragraph of the "Reception" section is clearly focused on American matters, and the one where Euractiv was cited concerns NCRI's reception in the EU. I don't really know what you mean by "editorializing". Theodore Christopher (talk) 13:31, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

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