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Again, welcome! –FlyingAce✈talk 20:16, 12 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Oh, and by the way – reverting vandalism is not considered to be edit-warring, so revert away! :) –FlyingAce✈talk 20:17, 12 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Grammar quibbles

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Affect is a verb (usually) and effect is a noun (usually). But both have exceptions: The medical term affect (e.g., "patient had a blunt affect") is a noun. And effect is also used as a verb when used in the expression "to effect a change."

Another disputed convention which I have seen oft misused of late: "Case and point" -- should be 'case in point' - JGabbard (talk) 04:16, 22 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

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THAAD

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ICYMI, an IP address user who has made no previous edits on WP reverted your revert of another IP address user who deleted the same material that the latest IP address user has removed...and also has made practically no previous edits on WP. I strongly suspect that this is a case of sockuppetry but as I'm still relatively new to WP and you seem to have more experience on these kinds of matters, I'd be interested in what you'd have to say with regards to this issue. Any comments that you may have? Wingwraith (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

What I am aware of is that the IP who reverted my revert (in my opinion) gave a better reason to remove the section in the edit summary than the IP I reverted. -- MrHumanPersonGuy (talk) 10:31, 9 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

In Re: Your revert at United Federation of Planets

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Of course i don't mean that. If you look at the section, there is a f**kton of unverified (yet bold) statements. I thought I was being kind in not starting to purge the section of uncited material. Or the article, since we're on the topic. The point of the matter is that if fellow contributors didn't feel the need to defend statments uncited since March 2015, why the heck should we keep them int he article? This is an encyclopedia, not Memora Alpha or some slippery-slope fanblog; we need to do better.
As I noted, I reverted you not necessarily because refs needed improving (though they absolutely do), but because re-templating the section conceals the staleness much of the uncited material tagged, and the notice that the material has in fact been ignored for as long as it has. Arguing that, by ignoring your new template, I am ignoring the pitiful few sources that happen to be in the section, is something of a fallacy.
I think its important to spotlight the lack of sources, and how long that lack has been ongoing. Instead of retemplating, add sources. Or purge the uncited statements. One or the other. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 02:44, 28 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

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