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Right of foreigners to vote in Switzerland

Merci d'avoir traduit l'article ! J'en fus l'initiateur il y a 9 ans :-) --Minorities observer (talk) 19:12, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

De rien ! J'ajoute maintenant la traduction entière. Merci de l'avoir écrit !

Dominici affair

Thank you for your recent additions. I've made a slight change where it seems to me that the French article says that Gustave's bicycle disappeared, with nobody noticing who left on it. My French is very rusty, and I'd be grateful if you could confirm whether I got it right. Thanks. Akld guy (talk) 20:05, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks very much. You got it right! Thanks for all the checking; as you can see, I've been doing it quite quickly and so typos or mistakes can happen. Cheers. MorbidStories (talk) 08:39, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Would you be willing to continue your translation so the article doesn't stop unfinished? I have quite an interest in this article. Akld guy (talk) 23:59, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, no problem, I am working on it currently. I'll put it up when I've finished the "Histoirique" section. It's a ridiculously long article and convoluted at times - hopefully in future it can be better organised, though I'm just translating straight from the French. MorbidStories (talk) 08:50, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translation request

Hi,

I think you would be interested to translate in English this French article: fr:Disparues de l'A6. friendly yours.

Sylvain. Sylvain cadieu (talk) 09:12, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Thank you for the suggestion - done! A6 disappearances

MorbidStories (talk) 09:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

David Jack and transfer records

Hello. Thought I'd better come here rather than trying to communicate via edit summary. The thing is, we can't source content from other Wikipedia articles in the same way that we can't source content from any other user-generated webpage. It says at WP:WPNOTRS in bold writing that "Wikipedia articles (and Wikipedia mirrors) in themselves are not reliable sources for any purpose". That list of record transfers isn't complete, and doesn't claim to be. Back in the early days, when the record must have been broken fairly regularly e.g. in the £100 to £500 range, it was rare for the actual amount of a fee to be reported at all, other than in woolly descriptive terms, and probably even rarer for them to be reported accurately and definitively. If that list had a single reliable source, or multiple similar-enough reliable sources, we could use that/those to source the Jack thing, but it hasn't. So, without an explicit reliable published source, it's an interesting possible fact that we can't use. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:35, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Query about Dominici affair

Hi. In the section "The first trial and conviction", this sentence appears: The key exhibit in the trial was the carbine, which did not seem to belong to anyone and had not claimed by anyone when it was seen at Paul Maillet’s home in the summer of 1950, presented by Gustave Dominici to Dr Morin at the Grand’Terre farm in late summer 1951, and, according to Gaston, kept at La Serre, the Perrin property.

I think it should read "The key exhibit in the trial was the carbine, which did not seem to belong to anyone and had not been claimed by anyone ~~when~~ since it was seen at Paul Maillet’s home in the summer of 1950, presented by Gustave Dominici to Dr Morin at the Grand’Terre farm in late summer 1951, and, according to Gaston, kept at La Serre, the Perrin property."

You have done a very good job of translating the article, and I think some sense of the meaning got lost in this sentence in what is a rare lapse. Does my interpretation agree with the French, and is there a need for a change? Akld guy (talk) 06:32, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for checking. Definitely a typo on my behalf to omit the word "been". As for your suggestion of "since" - the French conjunction "alors que" can translate as "when", "while" or "even though", but definitely not "since". However, your suggestion does make the most sense - perhaps it was a mistake by the original French author. So feel free to use this assumption to change it if you prefer. Thanks again. MorbidStories (talk) 07:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Akld guy (talk) 05:26, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Clovelly Lifeboat Station Image

Sorry, my mistake. I was looking at the other image in the infobox rather than the poor quality one.SovalValtos (talk) 17:16, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! MorbidStories (talk) 13:57, 13 July 2358 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

Is this account compromised?? Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 20:51, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No. MorbidStories (talk) 15:41, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

August 2018

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a comment on the page User talk:Carol.blackwell with this edit that didn't seem very civil, so I removed it. Wikipedia needs people like you and me to collaborate, so it’s one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 07:45, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment. I went a bit OTT as the user made several attempts to delete mentions of extremely serious crimes that took place, with an attitude that the good name of the institution is more important than mentioning the events and that denialism/revisionism was the best approach, ignoring the lives ruined by the crimes in question. I apologise for going too far with my remarks. Have a good day.--MorbidStories (talk) 07:49, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Thank you for pointing this out. The only Camden I had ever heard of was the borough in London and I didn't realise it had so many different uses, so I didn't think to disambiguate it. Thank you very much for letting me know; I have rectified this on the article. Have a great day.--MorbidStories (talk) 07:01, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Demarai Gray. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:40, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The edit I made to the Demarai Grey article was a brief factual account of a significant event in his personal life, in line with similar descriptions in the "personal life" sections of thousands of other public figures. It was reported by numerous mainstream media outlets. The edit was arbitrarily removed on false grounds by an editor who, as seen from their user page, has rubbed countless valued contributors up the wrong way. I will neither apologise for, nor cease, making constructive edits which do not constitute vandalism. Nor will I march in line to the cult that certain self-appointed editor mafiosi clearly want Wikipedia to be.--MorbidStories (talk) 06:57, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. 2601:188:180:1481:D0B2:2100:B473:6B99 (talk) 13:10, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend that you and your ilk read this article carefully before going on a crusade against harmless and helpful editors. I have created and improved hundreds of articles. I erred on one and find myself being brought to the jobsworths' version of the headmaster's study. --MorbidStories (talk) 13:32, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Clint Hill

What were you talking about on Clint Hill (footballer)? How could he be involved with something 15 years prior to his birth? IWI (chat) 14:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I am very poor with numbers/maths. This, along with my slightly incompetent confusion of these two Clint Hills.--MorbidStories (talk) 14:12, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You literally said 15 years prior to his birth.... That’s either pure incompetence or downright vandalism. That’s not doing math wrong (in fact, you got the math right.) TonyBallioni (talk) 14:17, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Drmies (talk) 14:29, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Drmies: were you aware of this one from August: [2]. Apparently this behavior is a pattern, rather than a one-off. Any objection to increasing the duration to, say, 1 month? (as a compromise; I'd prefer infinite myself) We've established they're a horrible person; we've established that they are lying about the "mistake" they made, and that this was intentional vandalism. How could this person's existence possibly benefit us here? --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:26, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another example of their trolling being part of a pattern, rather than a 1-off: [3]. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:31, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh goodness. +1 on that indef. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:48, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whoa. Drmies (talk) 16:51, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Re: “horrible person”. Well done for totally ignoring the context of what led to my statement.

The link you refer to was my strong response to someone who was persistently removing content relating to a recent case where a group of teachers at a boarding school were convicted of rape and sexual assault against pupils. Other users also called this editor up on their blanket removals of content, akin to a cover up and wanting to sweep these very serious crimes under the carpet.

You also failed to mention that I unreservedly apologised for my comments. I know one of the victims and so I reacted overly strongly to the attempts at whitewashing the issue.

So if I’m a horrible person for rebuking someone for removing all references to a very recent case of child rape, then what are you?

I quit this club of failed law enforcement applicants and paedo protectors. MorbidStories (talk) 15:50, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think that would be for the best. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:51, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Haha Fuck You I'm Back!

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