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ANI topic

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I opened an ANI topic about your editing style, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Ukrainian nationalist editor NachtReisender. You are welcome to reply there.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:52, 24 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Dnipro

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You used a source template here. Please check if the matter isn't easily to be seen sourced elsewhere. There is an entire section on that matter(Typonymy) and you can find the sources there. There are lots of sources that use that name in the description, too... Please do a bit more research than that.Lurking shadow (talk) 11:18, 29 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

I came her to say exactly the same. This is a long article, and there are plenty of sources for the old name, including a dedicated section and the end of the history secrion. in these cases, WP:MOS discourages adding sources to the lede, in order to keep it more readable. It looks like you are not going to be blocked this time, and I (again) strongly recommend you to read the manual of style, it could help you to avoid running into similar problems in the future.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:26, 29 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • Let me give other readers here a couple of examples: you insist on 8 New Dates being a Russian-Ukrainian movie for no other reason than that one of the actors is Ukrainian (in spite of production company, producers, director etc etc being Russian; by that logic hardly any American movie would be American, since they all have one or more foreign actors in the cast), you claim that another movie (Passions (1994 film)) was Ukrainian (first claiming it was Russian-Ukrainian and then changing that to only Ukrainian) for no other reason than that according to you the director, Kira Muratova, was Ukrainian (which by itself is ridiculous, and is made even more ridiculous by the fact that she was of Russian and Romanian descent, born in Romania, educated in Russia etc, but lived part of her life in the Ukrainian SSR during Soviet times), you repeatedly ([1], [2]) changed the nationality of Alexander Dovzhenko from Soviet, linking to the USSR, to Ukrainian, linking to the Ukrainian SSR, in spite of there not existing such a nationality, etc, etc. That's blatant nationalistic POV, and not acceptable. - Tom | Thomas.W talk 15:35, 29 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
What Thomas W says is that your edits seem to have the purpose to insert your knowledge or your personal views into the article instead of what has been published by reliable independent sources.Lurking shadow (talk) 17:02, 29 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
Lurking shadow Of course OS is a bad thing, it's obvious. I never add to articles any information that is not verified by sources. My mistake was that I did not leave a link to them, I admit it. However, I leave i left it on Administrators' noticeboard, where I was accused of the OS -NachtReisender (talk) 14:01, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • Thomas.W You are mistaken, dear sir. But there is nothing wrong with that, everyone makes mistakes ;) -NachtReisender (talk) 14:03, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
    • Be careful. OR is not just not using reliable sources, it's also interpreting reliable sources. If you make a non-obvious interpretation you are engaging in OR, too. For example, if you call something ukrainian-russian based on that a source says that an ukrainian was part of it then that's OR. It's not OR if a source expressly calls it like this. Even if it isn't OR, you still need to look at the balance of sources - if your source is the only reliable source saying X in a sea of reliable sources saying Y then your source has to be disregarded as an outlier. If both viewpoints are backed up by reliable sources in an about equal manner then both viewpoints belong into the article. If one of the views is a minority view, but not an outlier, then it belongs into the article, too, appropiately labeled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lurking shadow (talkcontribs) 18:28, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
    • Got it, thanks -NachtReisender (talk) 18:30, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Daily Mail

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Hi. Please do not use the Daily Mail as you did at Falling in Reverse. See WP:DAILYMAIL. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk)

You're welcome. Happy editing, Robby.is.on (talk) 15:22, 10 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Sumanuil In what way exactly does my edit disturb uniformity or cause readability or accessibility problems? —NachtReisender (talk) 22:45, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Specifically, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Ukrainian places): For unambiguously historical topics (e.g. Kiev Offensive), do not change existing content." Also, MOS:PLACE: "Avoid anachronism. An article about Junípero Serra should say he lived in Alta Mexico, not in California, because the latter entity did not yet exist in Serra's time. The Romans invaded Gaul, not France, and Thabo Mbeki was the president of the Republic of South Africa, not of the Cape Colony." And regardless, one should not blindly replace terms, as they may be part of file names, reference URLS, or internal links. Sumanuil. 23:43, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

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