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Reference errors on 10 September

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Your liberal accusations of vandalism on Yazidis

You have repeatedly reverted people's edits on Yazidis with edit summaries claiming they were vandalism. That was not always the case (in fact, in at least one case, your revert flew right in the fact of the cited source, which, while not in English, are easily checked with an automatic translator). Vandalism is a grave accusation to make, so you should refrain from making it lightly. I hope you will provide more constructive edit summaries in the future, as well as trying to avoid to revert legitimate edits. LjL (talk) 16:41, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Most Yezidis speak Kurmanji, a Kurdish dialect, as their mother tongue.

Source 15, page 5, section 1.6, first sentence

At least, I am providing summaries, not making unexplained IP edits like some and then coming back to remand people when they get reverted. I suggest you talk before you make controversial IP edits. Sheriff (report) 17:08, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Just to be clear, are you accusing me of being the one behind the "controversial IP edits"? LjL (talk) 17:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Also, as noted in my latest edit summary, you have neglected to consider the source cited immediately after the claim, which is the one I was directly referring to. LjL (talk) 17:12, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

That reference does not clearly say that the name of language is Yazidi language, it does however say that Yazidi language is Kurmanji then again when there are multiple sources which clearly say the language name as Kurmanji then why should we consider a source which is ambiguous. Sheriff (report) 17:23, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Then remove the source if it's inaccurate or not reliable (though you better make a good case of it), but misrepresenting it and/or labeling other people's edits that comform to the source "vandalism" is not appropriate. Besides, it doesn't spell the language name as "Yazidi" because (duh!) it's not in English, but in Russian, so it comes out differently from Google Translate. But anyway I don't care how you choose to transliterate it. I'm mostly just concerned with your vehemence in reverting and accusing when not-so-warranted. LjL (talk) 17:35, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Chatter on Hajj talkpage

It's a fair point that half the questions being asked are not related directly to this instance, and the RD exists to help people with this kind of question. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:56, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: Then, i think a move will help. Can we just move the discussion to RD instead of just removing it completely? Sheriff (talk) 19:02, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Sure, it's probably easiest to open a new thread there, previous discussions don't seem to have generated anything helpful. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:54, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Ayub407 15:56, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

rollback

Hi SheriffIsInTown. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Misplaced Pages:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Beeblebrox (talk) 18:40, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate it. Sheriff (report) 19:42, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

edit reverted

Hey why you reverted my edits in Bahawalpur page? There are many colleges not only one UMAIR SHAREEEF (talk) 09:49, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

@UMAIR SHAREEEF:They are unsourced to begin with and not notable as well but even if you have sources, still it's unencyclopedic to include all of them on the page. Your edits were reverted as WP:OR. Moreover, we must follow a manual of style when editing and cannot leave our text all in capital letters anywhere on page. Sheriff (report) 12:38, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

It is shameful that there is no name of 127 years old institution of Bahawalpur I don't want to comment on it. My writing is not good as you people but I want you people to research more about Bahawalpur.

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi ! I want to be your friend. Ciphers00 (talk) 14:08, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Ciphers00:Thank you, i am not sure, how to properly respond except to thank you for this gesture. :) Sheriff (report) 16:45, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

JSTOR

You should have received an email with a link to a Google form to complete - could you please either do so or email me if you did not receive it? Note that, because there are more applicants than available accounts, not responding could result in your slot being passed to a waiting editor. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:07, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Ping. Please respond in the next week if you still want an account. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:24, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Muhammad Malik

Dear friend, I hope you are well. Maybe we could collaborate on the editing of this page. I'm a native English speaker and can help with the copy-editing. What do you think? My regards, George Custer's Sabre (talk) 10:12, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@GorgeCustersSabre: Thanks for your offer of help but i am not sure why you are having me add the ref on every line of the page, it seems silly. It looks like you are not doing any effort to look at the refs/sources already present in the page before removing the text that i enter. I hope i did not upset you with my summary line earlier. If you really want to help then i would suggest that we should not have that one source mentioned ten times in the page. I have some editing experience myself as well but i have never seen someone bully me like this for references while all of the information is already present in sources and it takes little to no effort to verify. Also it would be a great help if you cn tag the text which you do not find the ref for instead removing it immediately. Sheriff (report) 13:06, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

I acted toward you in good faith, yet you rebuff my effort to help and call me a bully. Listen please: your edits were really sloppy (usually unreferenced or poorly referenced) and poorly written, and you seem more intent on creating a fan page than a neutral, reliable and well written encyclopedia page. So be it. George Custer's Sabre (talk) 16:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

It would be criminal negligence not to offer you this tasty cupcake for one of the most original ideas for user pages I have come across. Please enjoy! Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 19:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, i appreciate the gesture. Sheriff (report) 19:40, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Edit warring against consensus

Your recent editing history at Muhammad shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Jeppiz (talk) 13:27, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

I only reverted once how it became an edit-warring?? Stop harassing people! Sheriff (report) 13:29, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

British Raj

Please read the article completely beforte jumping in and editing and demanding references. You ask for references for the term India and British India, may I point out to you the section headed British India and the Princely States which quotes and references the Interpretation Act of 1889. Now will you please stop your slow motion edit warring? Dabbler (talk) 13:41, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

See the Interpretation Act 1889, so far i am unable to find the term "British India" in whichever sources i checked it in. Please remove it yourself from the lead or point me to a source. Sheriff (report) 13:57, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1889/63/pdfs/ukpga_18890063_en.pdf Section 18, sub-sections 4 and 5. And an apology would be nice. Dabbler (talk) 14:36, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, that was an error on my part, i thought searching with Ctrl+F would give me the results within that PDF but somehow it did not render them. Sheriff (report) 14:45, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. Dabbler (talk) 15:36, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

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