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Hang in there!

	The Don Quixote Award
	Sometimes you see what should be done but the obstacles are insurmountable. Don't let it get you down. Your contributions to Misplaced Pages are important. On to the next windmill! Schazjmd (talk) 22:41, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

I literally have a lump in my throat right now. I really needed that - thank you!!

I saw, after the fact, what you'd been dealing with, and I really admire your tenacity and care about doing the right thing for the encyclopedia. I hope you don't let the experiences at that one article discourage you. And there are so many articles that could use your expertise, ones that don't come with a battlefield! Schazjmd (talk) 22:53, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

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Backlog Banzai

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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

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Penn's Creek massacre

Hi, I made some small changes to the lead of the Penn's Creek massacre article, which I think improve the wording - if you don't think my changes are improvements, I have no problem with you reverting them - I don't want to upset the extensive work you have done on the article - cheers - Epinoia (talk) 03:05, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Penn's Creek massacre

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Penn's Creek massacre you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Fiamh -- Fiamh (talk) 08:00, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! Lilipo25 (talk) 13:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Penn's Creek massacre

The article Penn's Creek massacre you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Penn's Creek massacre for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Fiamh -- Fiamh (talk) 10:21, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you so much, Fiamh! I am very happy to hear this. I'm going to continue editing the article following your instructions - I still have some more OCLC numbers to add to sources and have found a contemporary journal article that can be used as a source instead of Leininger & LeRoy's first-person account. Thanks again, and Happy New Year to you, too! Lilipo25 (talk) 19:06, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

And more congratulations from an editor who has been admiring your work from the start.SovalValtos (talk) 12:35, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much, SovalValtos! I'm so happy to have my first good article! I've learned a lot about Misplaced Pages editing while working on it. Lilipo25 (talk) 19:06, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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97198 Thank you! Lilipo25 (talk) 12:10, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Edit warring notice

Hi, please don't edit war as you did at Graham Linehan. Participating in discussion is more productive. Notice also that we do not use Title Case for section headings, but Sentence case. In order to help foster a cordial and collaborative environment, I recommend that you revert that change. As for the "but", I've started a discussion. — Bilorv (Black Lives Matter) 06:46, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Bilorv I am unclear how you came to the conclusion that it is "edit warring" when another user stops your own edit warring WHILE an RFC is going on? The RFC is in place to discuss the subject heading, and you changed the subject heading without waiting for consensus - indeed, when the discussion had only just begun. I changed it back and asked you to wait for the consensus. So again, I ask you to stop edit warring and to please allow the discussion to reach a consensus on the subject heading. That is what the RFC is for.Thank you. Lilipo25 (talk) 07:49, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

ETA Sorry, I appear to have confused you with another user, Bastun. It was Bastun who changed the subject heading without waiting for consensus, not you. If this is because you are upset that I changed the connective word "but" to "and", I think you're wrong and the "but" implies a judgment; however, one connective word hardly merits its own section on the article Talk page or warnings on other editors Talk pages and I'm not going to get into an argument with you about it. Lilipo25 (talk) 08:17, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

It's over changing the subject header. Edit warring is edit warring regardless of how many other users are edit warring. It only inflames tensions to supervote your personal preference onto an article during a discussion, particularly when the old version was longstanding. As you've noticed, I am not edit warring myself. — Bilorv (Black Lives Matter) 11:42, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

This edit warring notice is inappropriate and wrong. It is not edit warring to change back a subject heading ONCE as I did, especially when it was changed by the other editor while an RFC to discuss the heading had been opened and was ongoing, and no consensus had been reached. A single edit to restore the version that is currently under discussion in the RFC absolutely does not constitute edit warring, and this is a vast overreach on your part. Please stop. Lilipo25 (talk) 17:17, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Votestacking in relation to RfC

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Misplaced Pages's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. Wikiditm (talk) 07:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikiditm You were clearly canvassing and had already notified all the editors who agreed with you of the RFC. But I noticed you had somehow left out the editors who had been involved in editing the section but had differing opinions from your own, so I added them in, as well. For opinions that differed from yours, you had only included the two of us who had already expressly told you on the Talk Page that we were participating in the RFC, and left out all the other editors whose opinions differed from yours while tagging in people who had only made a single comment calling Linehan a "transphobe", for example. I am sorry that you feel it was canvassing of me to include the editors you had left out while you were canvassing. Lilipo25 (talk) 08:12, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

The page on canvassing is really helpful in explaining what is appropriate and inappropriate notification. My action, notifying everyone, without prejudice, who had participated in a relevant discussion on a talk page, is not canvassing. It is the definition of appropriate notification. In contrast, posting on a solitary user's talk page who had not participated in any related topic in over a year, but who had previously voiced alignment with your views, is canvassing. Under inappropriate notification you can see that the audience must be non-partisan. "Everyone who has participated in a relevant discussion" is non-partisan. "One person who has never been involved but who previously supported me" is not. Finally, "I am sorry you feel" is not a useful or appropriate response to this issue.Wikiditm (talk) 11:24, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

As I stated on the user's Talk page, I had 'pinged' them from my response to you on the article Talk page, but the ping wouldn't go through to them for some reason. So I had to post on their page to tell them I had pinged them. And they in fact participated very heavily in the related discussion of this topic on the ANI you opened just one month ago,so it is not true that they had not participated in any relevant discussion in over a year. Lilipo25 (talk) 17:10, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Apologies for the late response, I've just seen this. I did appreciate the note and for what it's worth I certainly didn't feel as though I'd been "canvassed". In fact Wikiditm if you were notifying everybody evenly I would have expected one to be winging my way at that stage! Sad to say I had to self-impose a topic ban from the page in question, otherwise I'd be in danger of talking myself into another block. This clause was part of the horse trading when I was last up before the beaks. I'll keep an eye on it though and if/when it spills over into AN again I'll be able to participate at that stage. I think I've made my position clear previously and do feel unhappy and embarrassed that I've effectively been 'bullied' off the page. But I'm mainly here to work on women's football articles and I risk losing that if I get involved in the cut and thrust of this stuff - much as I'd like to. Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 22:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

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