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Football Fixtures

Dudesleeper has been deleting Football Fixtures lists, claiming these lists are copyrighted. The Guardian claims [1] this is not the case, and this information was provided on the talk page of the article in question before his edits. The article in question: Newcastle United F.C. season 2009–10. Dudesleeper has also been marking his major reversions as minor and calling people names in his edit summaries. Needless to say, these approaches are very frustrating. At first I responded in kind, but immediately afterwards I realized my mistake. I apologized on his talk page for letting things get out of hand, and recommended we discuss the situation openly to find out which position is correct. Hopefully he'll take me up on it. I know it's tempting for both of us to just be assholes on the Internet. I think we can do better. --Thomas B♘talk 05:34, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

{{help}} People are still removing valuable information on upcoming fixtures from Newcastle_United_F.C._season_2009–10, claiming these are subject to copyright, but all evidence in the discussion page suggests they are not copyrightable. People just come along and remove this info, insisting the contrary position is wrong without argument or evidence. Restoring the info is tedious after other changes have been made to the site. I'm not sure how to change this trend, and my talk page discussion contributions have become less politic due to my frustration. I would appreciate someone else reviewing the situation and voicing their opinion as a neutral third party in the talk page. Also, please let me know what next steps I should consider to alter this trend. --Thomas B♘talk 19:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi there. If you have attempted to contact the person in question and you still can't resolve the dispute (which I see you have), then you should try some of the steps in the dispute resolution process. There are many options ranging from getting a third opinion, the content noticeboard, and, if things get really bad, the 3RR noticeboard and beyond. Hopefully it doesn't get that far, but these links should help you get started into resolving this process. Thanks for not starting an edit war on this content, and good luck with finding a resolution. --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mr. Jalopy

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Nomination of Mister Jalopy for deletion

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Nomination of Mister Jalopy for deletion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Kansas Radio Markets

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Your username

I noticed that, while your username is "User6985", you have your signature as "Thomas B". You can actually request to change your username if you so desire. Since the username "Thomas B" is already taken, you can request a username change here by following the instructions on that page. — Gestrid (talk) 20:14, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Appreciated, but this is all quite intentional. --Thomas B♘talk 23:07, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok. — Gestrid (talk) 00:46, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

• Yes, this is a problem. It is not easy to recognize the username from this signature, in contravention of WP:CUSTOMSIG/P. Bon courage (talk) 04:44, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

  From that link, "A 2021 RfC was closed with consensus against signatures being required to correspond exactly to usernames and no consensus to require that signatures be easily recognizable to a new user as referring to the username they link to." Thank you for the link, that was helpful confirmation that my current signature does NOT/NOT contravene current policies. Even so, I welcome you bringing this to my attention, because I don't want to create any appearance of impropriety. So please note that I have consistently included a link to my talk page to ensure users like yourself can easily find me after discussions on other pages, as you have done here. I have taken note that there are other proposals under discussion on this issue, such as from enterprisey. I will watch those closely, and once there is consensus and policy clarity, I will make sure I stay aligned with any guidance receiving full consensus. Thank you for bringing this issue to my attention, I will watch it closely. --Thomas B (talk) 09:42, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

  It doesn't have to correspond "exactly" but as it is it's misleading. I was confused, and people who need to use assistive technologies will be even more confused. Your choice I guess. Bon courage (talk) 10:05, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

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Was reverted multiple times while urging in reverts and on talk page to move discussion to talk page for resolution per WP guidelines. Would absolutely welcome independent review. --Thomas B (talk) 14:29, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Third opinion on [[Talk:Aquatic ape hypothesis#Intro relevance]

I intend to offer a third opinion on the above-topic per the request for one, but it wold be helpful if you could please crystalize your main points on the talk page here. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:49, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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