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ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 02:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the note. May I ask why my edits on the talk page of Houthi involvement in the Israel–Hamas war were removed? eyal (talk) 02:51, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- The alert above indicates that you must have 500 edits and an account of age of 30 days before making edits in the Arab-Israeli conflict topic area, that is why your edits were reverted. You only have 105 edits. This also applies to discussions. Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish feel free to correct me if this is wrong. Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- You are correct. If you look in the edit summaries on that page, it says ECR in the reversions. JM (talk) 03:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for answering. Is this policy officially written out somewhere, e.g. in a WP: page? eyal (talk) 03:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, never mind, it's here: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel_articles eyal (talk) 03:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- @ScottishFinnishRadish feel free to correct me if this is wrong. Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- The alert above indicates that you must have 500 edits and an account of age of 30 days before making edits in the Arab-Israeli conflict topic area, that is why your edits were reverted. You only have 105 edits. This also applies to discussions. Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
At Weaponization of antisemitism article, you can see that the CT procedure advised above applies, so you may only make edit requests as explained in WP:ARBECR. You have twice used the edit request template for things that are not edit requests. Please only ask for things that can be expressed as replace X with Y or equivalent. No argument is necessary, ECR editors will decide whether to carry out an edit request, anything complicated is likely to not get done. Thanks. Selfstudier (talk) 17:14, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, my apologies. I thought that when you said "this isn't an edit request" here, you were referring to the absence of the {Edit extended-protected} tag. This is why I re-submitted the new request here with the tag. Now I understand that you made the that statement referring to the wording of the request. Just writing this out here to clarify what had happened. spintheer (talk) 18:04, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Persistent breach of ARBECR
editKindly desist from making any further comments about, or discussing about, or arguing against Arbpia/CT when, for contentious topics, as a non EC editor you are specifically permitted only to use talkspace for edit requests and nothing else. Selfstudier (talk) 17:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Yep, will do. Thank you for the notice. spintheer (talk) 17:27, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
On RfC meaning
editThe full paragraph was "Is the primary use of the term nonmetal for elements in the periodic table, see discussions above and also at Talk:Nonmetallic compounds and elements. Editor Sandbh is arguing that this is the case, with some other additions. Editors Johnjbarton, Ldm1954 and YBG have questioned this, and both Johnjbarton and Ldm1954 have questioned the scientific accuracy.
Or, putting it another, is the word "nonmetal" reserved for describing the periodic table elements? Is the standard template {\{Band structure filling diagram}\} ( remove the slashes)
wrong? Ldm1954 (talk) 06:01, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm still confused about the RFC question, if I'm honest. Is the RFC question: is the word "nonmetal" reserved for describing the periodic table elements?
- The RFC question should be formatted so that it clearly lays out the concrete article edit options that RFC participants have to pick between. The question that I quoted in bold from the above text doesn't quite do this. spintheer (talk) 06:20, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Also, I think we should move this discussion back to the RFC in Talk:nonmetal so other people can see this and participate. spintheer (talk) 06:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- The discussion has been much wider than a single question, which is why I indicated the need to read the talk. One editor is insisting on his interpretation, three others have tried and failed to get him to accommodate anything else. The three editors have been polite, I am not sure I would say the same about the one. I leave to you that question.
- I will do a minor clarification. Ldm1954 (talk) 06:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Sutherland Springs
editThe RfC has expired, there is a choice to ask for an official close, or let it go. There are 14 opinions, 9 are for Option 1 which is 64%. A mild majority. You made the best arguments I think for non-majority side, and put the most time into it. Would you like for me to ask for an official close, or let it go? -- GreenC 18:22, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- I think that, overall, it would be better to do an official close to settle this matter. It would help bring the topic to a proper and official conclusion and reduce the chances we may need to revisit it in the future. Also, I am curious to see how the closer will balance the various arguments! spintheer (talk) 20:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- OK, close requested. -- GreenC 21:29, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
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