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June 2024

Hi,

Your reverts of my edits were wrong and they seem to be doe for the sake of doing it. The changes I made were absolutely correct without any shred of doubt. If you have any logic behind your reverts, let me know. Else, I will revert your "reverts" soon. GurbaazK (talk) 03:36, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

@GurbaazK: why did you add a fava bean recipe to the article on kidney bean? Do you know how the {{Distinguish}} template is intended to be used? Walsh90210 (talk) 03:37, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

redirects for discussion

@Walsh90210 To save me checking all of these individually, is there a reason for so many in a row? Was there a common problem with all of them? MWQs (talk) 00:01, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

I looked at an article of yours that was AFD'd, and saw multiple redirects of yours with problems. Two main problems: 1) You can't just take one incident of "mass graves" in a country, and redirect "mass graves in X" to it; 2) there is no need for every "The X" to redirect to X. Walsh90210 (talk) 00:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. I don't redirect every instance of "The", it was just particularly relevant for that one. e.g. The Ukraine exists as a redirect as well. It's particularly likely to be useful for topics from languages that don't have an exact equivalent of English "the", or for disputed territory. MWQs (talk) 00:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Which AfD? Maybe I should fix them there. MWQs (talk) 00:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Can you be more specific about what you mean by disruptive? (I saw you mention that on another page) I am trying to be constructive, so if I'm getting it wrong, I want to improve. MWQs (talk) 01:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Two points:

1. You violated the WP:ARBECR requirement for Israel-Palestine quite a bit when starting editing.
2. There are sufficiently many "questionable" redirect creations in your editing history that review by an admin (who can delete them unilaterally) might be called for.

Walsh90210 (talk) 01:20, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

I don't think anything I was editing early on was mared as restricted. I didn't get a notification about it until recently. Some things I edited early have subsequently been added to that list. MWQs (talk) 05:15, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Is there a way I can clean up my own created redirects? e.g. If I find any others where I was redirecting a broad topic to a single example of such. MWQs (talk) 05:22, 5 July 2024 (UTC)