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I've reverted your change to User:ThomasPark02, as he is not currently blocked for sockpuppetry but for edit warring. I'm trying to calm things and find a way to help him become a productive contributor, and I don't think it helps for you to take "enforcement" actions right now. So, can I please ask you to leave that kind of thing to me and to other admins? Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 23:48, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:D'Israeli

Hi again Ebonelm. Could you comment on whether D'Israeli should redirect to Benjamin Disraeli as {{R from alternative spelling}}? Thanks.--Nevé–selbert 07:20, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

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@Primefac I think that you need to go back and re-evaluate the accusations you've just made against me. I am an experienced editor who performed two reverts on edits made by a new user who was unilaterally trying to impose a lower quality image into an article. Two other editors using IP addresses also reverted edits made by Stroll demonstrating an established local consensus. You clearly haven't investigated the situation with due diligence User:Strolls has very obviously violated 3RR with these three reverts 1, 2, and 3. Looking at Strolls talk page I note that you have taken a much softer approach at discussing this matter with this user which is alarming given they are the one individual in this situation to have violated the rules. Rather than using an overly aggressive tone against me you should be applying sanctions against Strolls. Ebonelm (talk) 12:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

While I probably didn't need to drop the 3RR template on you, you were still well on your way towards breaking 3RR if things continued. Even if you are right, be the bigger person and take it to the talk page. It's not the end of the world if the "wrong" version is on the page for a day or two. As for not putting a template on Strolls, they were elbows-deep in a conversation about the situation (both on their talk and on ANI) so it was unnecessary to do anything more than give a notice about the ANI closure. Primefac (talk) 13:18, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Sex trade articles

I appreicate you voicing your opinion on Sex trade in Ghana but apparently the conversation has being moved to Talk:Prostitution in Africa#Ghana and Senegal so please voice your thoughts there. Dwanyewest (talk) 20:34, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Development-Induced Displacement

Hi - you removed my content on Development-Induced Displacement, speculating that it was just a "test". It was not just a test and I had put all my edits in my sandbox. Could you please be more specific about why you remived the content so that I may make the appropriate adjustments? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lkelleygsu (talk • contribs) 13:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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FYI that as a page mover you can use WP:PAGESWAP to do a round-robin move in cases like the Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism RM. I would do it for you, but I had commented. Its a pretty useful script if you are going to be closing RMs. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:32, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

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Reverting Chamberlain arcticle

Could please explain to me, why do you think I crossed boundary of Neutral point of view in Neville Chamberlain article? Thank you. --Robin WH (talk) 19:13, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

See WP:IMPARTIAL. The tone of your edits on the Neville Chamberlain article do not meet encyclopedic standards. Using terms such as 'humiliating' of placing the word '(betrayal)' in brackets after a neutral subheading is a clear violation of WP:NPOV hence why I was the second user to revert your edit. Ebonelm (talk) 21:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

Please see Talk:Homosexuality and the Catholic Church#Requested move 18 April 2017. Although your close on 16 April was correct at that time according to the limited discussion it has since become clear that there is no consensus for that move. Would you mind if I moved it back to the status quo ante? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:28, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

@MSGJ. Yes I would object to the article being moved back to the previous title. The move request had been up for nine days, which is two days longer than the seven days required by WP:RMCI. In that time a nominator and a second participant both advocated for the move, no objections were raised. I stand by my close as sound. If other editors have subsequently seen the change in articles title and object and want to debate it being moved back that is fine, I recently was involved with similar scenario at List of coats of arms of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in which we successfully restored the previous title (and current), so I appreciate that sometimes requested moves go unnoticed by otherwise active editors on a topic. Personally I think that it is important to not automatically revert to previous titles when objections are raised as if this became a trend I feel it would undermine the whole WP:RM system. While of course there are certain circumstances in which a move should be reverted quickly I feel that this is not one of them as the current title meets the criteria of WP:CONSISTENCY, and is consistent with the trend in favour of moving titles from 'Roman Catholic' to 'Catholic Church' which has been on-going for over a year now, the request clearly dealt with the objections raised to a similar move request held last year by opting for the formulation 'and the' rather than 'in the'. Ebonelm (talk) 15:25, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Indigenous languages in South Sudan

Hello Ebonelm,

You deleted Arabic as a national language in South Sudan and you wrote that Arabic is not an indigenous language in South Sudan. Why do you think that Arabic is not an indigenous language in South Sudan? Please see the reliable source that Arabic is an indigenous language in South Sudan.

I would be happy if you reply.

Kind Regards,

Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.168.72.130 (talk) 13:37, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Tom. Thanks for the source however I don't agree that the source backs up your assertion from a legal standpoint. While it is suggested that Juba Arabic may be indigenous as it developed in Juba rather than elsewhere it also points out that it is not treated that way by the South Sudanese government. To quote the from the last page of the same document "the position of Juba Arabic is sociolinguistically controversial: it is widely used as a lingua franca and even a mother tongue in South Sudan, yet it is ineligible for official recognition". I would argue that the South Sudanese government did not intend for Arabic to be considered an official language as Arabic is not the native language of any of the ethnic groups in South Sudan, and the practice of the government backs this up. Ebonelm (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello Ebonelm,

Thank you for your reply.

1. Concerning official language:

You are right that the South Sudanese government did not intent for Arabic to be considered an official language in South Sudan. According to the new transitional constitution of the Republic of South Sudan of 2011, English is the sole official language in South Sudan.

I didn`t write that Arabic or Juba Arabic is an official language in South Sudan.

2.Concerning indigenous language:

Juba Arabic is an indigenous language in South Sudan (and also a widely spoken language in South Sudan) as mentioned in the source. I don`t understand why you resists this fact. Why do you insists on the opinion or are you agree that Juba Arabic is an indigenous language in South Sudan?

Another source regarding Juba Arabic:

In an interview with a newspaper, the Foreign Minister of South Sudan Deng Alor Kuol said: South Sudan is the closest African country to the Arab world, and we speak a special kind of Arabic known as Juba Arabic.

I would be happy if you reply.

Kind Regards,

Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.168.72.130 (talk) 22:41, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Next Conservative Party (UK) leadership election

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Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Hi @Ebonelm! I noticed that you reversed my edit on Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I wrote most of that article a couple of years ago, but following on from a discussion on the talk page, it turned out that I had made some errors. In essence, that was what my big edit today was about. I also did some updating and cut away some parts (which, again, I had previously added) that I now think are unnecessary for a Wikipedia article. Does that explain my edit? Thanks in advance! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 17:01, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi @FollowTheTortoise, thanks for the explanation however I would recommend that you only remove the specific information you have sources to show are incorrect rather than wiping the majority of the article are you also removed considerable amounts of correct and well reference material. While I can see that you did considerably rewrite this article several years ago per WP:OWN that does not mean you can just remove content. Ebonelm (talk) 18:53, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me. With your permission, I will have another go at an edit! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 18:56, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi again @Ebonelm. I noticed that you reversed my new edit. It would really help me if you could explain exactly what you are opposed to me changing. While it looks from the edit history page like I removed a lot of content, I think that this is mainly because I removed the timeline. I would be happy to keep the timeline in the article (so long as Clement Attlee could be added, as per the sources), but the reason why I removed it was because I thought that it would look silly with Attlee on, as the time difference between 1945 and 1995 is so large. I suppose that we could alternatively specify that the timeline only covers from 1995. Else, you can see exactly what I changed here. Thanks again and I am looking forward to hearing from you! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 21:18, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Good afternoon @Ebonelm. I hope that you do not mind me messaging you again! I was planning to have another go at editing the article and I wondered if you could give me any tips ahead of this. Would it help if I split my edits into smaller edits, so it would be easier to understand what I am doing and to make it easier to pinpoint any specific edits that you are unhappy with? Thank you again! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 15:26, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi again @Ebonelm. I noticed that you reversed my most recent edits to the article again. I am not really sure why you say that any content was removed without explanation, because I thought that I had explained all of my edits, so it would be really useful if you could tell me what went unexplained. Also, can you point me towards the "claims regarding Clement Atlee disputed by many reliable sources"? By my understanding, the various sources explain that Attlee's appointment as Deputy Prime Minister was not approved by George VI, but Deputy Prime Ministers are not appointed by the monarch. I did not understand the latter point in the past, hence why I previously excluded Attlee from the list, but it is clear to me from the sources now: mea culpa! Like you, I am sure, I just want Wikipedia to be as accurate as possible, so it would be good to get to the bottom of this. I was also thinking that it might help if we got somebody else involved in this discussion. Thanks in advance! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 16:39, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

PS. You might find this discussion, which began the process of changing my mind, useful on the point that monarchs do not appoint Deputy Prime Ministers (and, therefore, that it is irrelevant whether Attlee's appointment was approved by the monarch or not). To add to that, Vernon Bogdanor says: "In Britain, by contrast with Australia, the sovereign has always refused to recognize the position of deputy prime minister", Jonathan Kirkup and Stephen Thornton say: "But the post itself is something of a chimera, possessing no seal of office and having never been officially recognised by the monarch" and (on a slightly different note) this GOV.UK announcement has Oliver Dowden's appointment as Deputy Prime Minister listed separately to those appointments which are approved by the monarch. Also, both Philip Norton and Rodney Brazier include Attlee in their respective lists of people who held the title of Deputy Prime Minister, so I would be interested to see what reliable sources say that Attlee was not a Deputy Prime Minister. Thanks again! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 16:52, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I hope that you do not mind, but I have asked for a third opinion on both the WikiProject Politics talk page and Deputy Prime Minister talk page with a view of resolving this matter. As I say, I think we both just want the article to be as accurate as possible. Thanks! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 15:31, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @FollowTheTortoise, its really very simple, when adding new content to an article it is your responsibility as an editor to ensure you are not removing other sourced content, or to provide a clear justification for the removal of sourced content. Some of your edits have been constructive however because of the way you have edited the article I am forced to manually revert as the undo function does not work. I suggest that you take a more careful and conservative approach to making changes. Re the Vernon Bogdanor quote you cannot use a book from 1995 (which will have been written in 1994 at the latest) to argue that a constitutional change which occured in 1995 has not occurred. 18:55, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for getting back to me and for your comments. I took to reading WP:EDITING and had the idea of putting together a table with all of my suggested edits, so you and others had the opportunity to object to, and we could better discuss, specific edits. I have set this out below and it represents the changes which I think I currently want to make to the article (this is slightly different to the edits that I actually made a couple of days ago, taking in mind your advice to be conservative). I obviously understand that it will be a bit of a task to work through that table!

As per your comment about the Bogdanor book, you are obviously right that that book could not discuss the phenomenon of the monarch appointing Deputy Prime Ministers if it had not started yet, but there is no reason to suggest that Deputy Prime Ministers from 1995 were appointed by the monarch. Philip Norton just says: "the situation changed in the 1990s and there was a move, in effect, from an informal to a formal designation, with Michael Heseltine in 1995 being officially styled as deputy prime minister and answering parliamentary questions in that capacity" — no mention of royal involvement. Also, the Thornton and Kirkup blog post is from 2017 and they also say in a 2017 academic article: "successive monarchs have been stubbornly reluctant to recognise the position at all". And, a bit more cryptically, in a 2020 book, Norton also says: "Sensitivity to the royal prerogative still shape the status. It remains formally a title conferred on an individual. Those on whom the title is conferred still have to be appointed to a salaried ministerial post." I am yet to find a source which supports the view that Deputy Prime Ministers are appointed by the monarch and thus the fact that Attlee's appointment was not approved by the monarch does not make him worthy of being in the table (and even if I did, this may verge on WP:NOR and WP:TRUTH; what we would really need in such a scenario is academic consensus that Attlee should not be included in such lists, which simply does not exist — see 26 below).

	Suggested edit	Reason
INFOBOX
1	Remove 10 Downing Street as one of the departments of the Deputy Prime Minister	Unsourced
2	Change the first Deputy Prime Minister from Michael Heseltine to Clement Attlee	See 26
LEDE
3	Remove "the second highest ranking minister of the Crown" from the lede	Unsourced
4	Add to the lede that the title is not always in use and that Prime Ministers sometimes have 'informal deputies'	Useful context, particularly in light of the informal deputies section
CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION
5	State that Deputy Prime Minister is a title	This is supported by Kirkup and Thornton (2017) and Norton (2020). "Title" is also uniquely used to describe the Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Manual
6	State that Deputy Prime Ministers are not appointed by the monarch	This is supported by Bogdanor (1995), Kirkup and Thornton (2017) and Thornton and Kirkup (2017)
7	Reword the "classical argument" sentence to make the context for royal objections to Deputy Prime Ministers clearer and add some information about its history in respect of Anthony Eden	This is a more accurate use of Bogdanor (1995) and useful context
8	Move Brazier and Bogdanor's arguments in favour of appointing a Deputy Prime Minister to after Norton's two advantages of a Deputy Prime Minister, add Seldon's voice and cut this down to a sentence	This flows better and one sentence ensures that not too much prominence is given to this reason over Norton's two other reasons
9	Remove "(though this might be different within political parties in relation to their respective leaderships)"	Unsourced
10	Add "The title is not always in use and the holder's responsibilities will vary depending on the circumstances"	Useful context
11	Add Kirkup and Thornton's list of why Deputy Prime Ministers are appointed to Brazier's	Useful context
12	Add Norton's two advantages to having a Deputy Prime Minister	Useful context
HISTORY
13	Remove the examples of other junior party leaders given offices in coalitions	Irrelevant to a section about people who have been Deputy Prime Minister
14	Add a source to why there was nobody formally styled Deputy Prime Minister until Michael Heseltine and that Heseltine was Deputy Prime Minister	Add source
15	Add a source to Prescott, Clegg, Raab, Coffey and Dowden being Deputy Prime Minister	Add source
16	Remove that there was no Deputy Prime Minister under Gordon Brown, David Cameron after 2015 and Theresa May	Irrelevant
17	Remove explanations as to why Clegg left office and the fact that there was a Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary at the same time for the first time between 2010 and 2015	Irrelevant
18	Remove explanation that Coffey is the shortest serving	Irrelevant plus currently untrue!
19	Remove reference to Raab deputising for Boris Johnson in April 2020 before being Deputy Prime Minister	Included below
20	Remove explanation as to Raab being the first non-consecutive Deputy Prime Minister and why he stopped being Deputy Prime Minister	Irrelevant
SUCCESSION
21	Move succession section to the bottom of the article	I think it fits better away from the sections on the title of Deputy Prime Minister, as being Deputy Prime Minister gives no right to succeed the Prime Minister!
22	Replace 2006 Cabinet Office quote with 2021 Simon Case quote	The newer source is much more relevant
23	Merge the travelling and April 2020 sentences into one paragraph	This reads better and means there is a paragraph on when there is not and when there is a Prime Minister
LIST OF DEPUTY PRIME MINISTERS
24	Remove reference to ministers being appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister	This general rule is explicitly displaced by 6
25	Remove the comment that Attlee's appointment as Deputy Prime Minister was not approved by the King	Included above (albeit in more brief form; more context could be added if necessary)
26	Remove "Six people can be described as definitely having been appointed deputy prime minister in such a manner" and add Attlee to the table of Deputy Prime Ministers	Both Norton (2020) and Brazier (2020) include Attlee in their lists. Kirkup and Thornton (2017) also say, of three other lists, "Howard’s (1995) list, like Gay and Bogdanor starts with Attlee, seeing him as ‘official’ deputy". Perhaps see also WP:NOR and WP:TRUTH?
27	Remove gaps from the table	I think that it would look silly to list every ministry between 1945 and 1995; in any case, I think it is obvious to the reader that there is sometimes not a Deputy Prime Minister (I have even suggested including this in the lede — see 4)
TIMELINE
28	Add Attlee to the timeline	See 26

Thank you again for your comments! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 20:48, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Hey @Ebonelm. It has been almost a month since I created this table now — do you have any thoughts? Thanks in advance! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 12:05, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

@Ebonelm, @FollowTheTortoise This discussion seems to have gone stagnant, so I'd like to chip in. From what I can see, most of the changes proposed by FollowTheTortoise above would be reliably sourced. The article in its current state has several glaring inaccuracies, such as Attlee being an unlisted (in the timeline), "unofficial" DPM and disregarded as the first DPM in favour of Michael Heseltine, and the claim in the lede that the DPM is a ministerial post and the "second highest ranking minister of the Crown". I think the factual inaccuracies with the DPM article are in dire need of correction. I fear that, overtime, many of these inaccuracies will sort of "bed in", leading to cases of WP:Circular and other editors trying to revert the removal of these factual errors in acts of WP:Good Faith.

One worst case scenario I can think of right now is for reliable sources to start going around claiming Attlee wasn't the DPM. Outside of his premiership, I'd argue one of the things he's best known for is his role in WW2 as Britain's first DPM . Both the claim about Attlee and the ministerial ranking are very important factual errors and unsourced as far as I know (as evidenced by FollowTheTortoise above, the DPM is not a ministerial post, it's actually a titular role not even appointed by the monarch), yet these claims may have a knock off effect on other WP articles. What's worse, there is also the risk of reliable sources picking these inaccuracies up and stating them as fact, which is the last thing we need.

On @FollowTheTortoise's proposed edits, I'd say I agree with most of them. On edit 17, I do think the case of there being both a DPM and First SoS at the same time in the Cameron-Clegg coalition should still be mentioned, as the two are often thought of as having the same role (deputy to the PM). Perhaps it can serve as a clarification on the role of the DPM in coalitions i.e. a title for the leader of the junior coalition partner and not the PM's actual deputy the First SoS. I'd also suggest adding those proposed edits to the DPM article's talk page so that other editors won't have to go through the link to see the proposals. Bit nit-picky, but it does drive up engagement to have the proposals right there for everyone to see and encourages further discussion amongst editors.

That's really all I have to say for now. I do hope that my contribution revives this discussion and that I get a quick response, though I intend no pressure of course! ThatRandomGuy1 (talk) 03:01, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for replying, @ThatRandomGuy1! I completely agree that it is important that the article is corrected and I put my hands up to say that some of these errors were inadvertently added by me through misunderstandings. I would also be completely fine with mentioning that there was a Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State for the first time at the same time between 2010 and 2015 in respect of 17. I would also like to make a change to the table for myself, in respect of 6: in order to be even more faithful to the source material (quoted above), I would rather that we say that successive monarchs have refused to officially recognise the position of Deputy Prime Minister rather than they are not involved in the appointment (I think that the former suggests the latter, but I want to be as accurate as possible). Also, including the table on the edit page is an excellent idea and I will do that now, reflecting the changes to 17 and 6. Thanks again and, @Ebonelm, I notice that you have not edited in a while, so I hope that you are well. FollowTheTortoise (talk) 13:39, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi again @FollowTheTortoise! Thanks for your response. Now that you've moved the table into the DPM article I think it's best to continue discussing the proposed changes over there. @Ebonelm I share FollowTheTortoise's concerns and hope you're ok. Your contribution to this discussion is very much appreciated! ThatRandomGuy1 (talk) 05:15, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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