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Done James Richards (talk) 17:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Global Voice Group

Hi James

Thanks for the message about the Global Voice Group.

It's been updated with a large settlement awarded against the French Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ARPT). I'll continue to look for additional notable information.

Update: I moved this discussion to the project talk page.

Regards Ninja Theory TM (talk) 13:56, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Please take a look at article you have nominated for deletion

Hi James, I have seen you have nominated for deletion article Sadya Mizan. I have re-wrote the article and added additional sources also from reputable newspapers . Please let me know if you think it meets the criteria now. Thanks--Doratig (talk) 23:14, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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Your report on alleged vandalism on my behalf

Dear James Richards,

I am leaving this message here as a response to your report on alleged vandalism from my behalf.

My account is not used for promotional purposes. I am a history student at a well established university, with an interest on Macedonian history, due to my Macedonian background, and recently began my journey on Wikipedia. It is not nice that editors such as yourself accuse newbies of working in a conspiracy or being vandals.

I have no connection to the United Macedonian Diaspora, and I was editing on Wikipedia prior to when you nominated the UMD article for deletion, and prior to when UMD allegedly as you claim, created the 'conspiracy' to attack you.

Understand that I am new on the site, and it is not okay to bully newcomers. The reason why I deleted the 'Greek' from that article is because the article referenced was in reference to modern Greeks, whilst the claim is that Alexander was ancient Greek. In regard to Paidusko Horo, I removed North because I wanted to emphasize that the dance is not only danced in North Macedonia, but in the wider region of Macedonia. I understand that there are better and constructive ways for me to have outlined that, I have since learned from my mistakes.

You cannot accuse me of collaborating with the mentioned user, if anything you and many others, who I shall not name, collaborate all the time on a number of articles. I am not accusing you of that, but if you use that trivial example as collaboration, imagine all the examples I can provide of you collaborating with others.

Best regards, Dikaiosyni (talk) 13:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Can you please explain to me, how it happens to be that 3 new users with less than 50 contributions on edits all happen to instantly oppose the deletion of the UMD page, just a few days after the creation of their Wikipedia taskforce. Did all you stumble on it by chance? We both know that the probability of that is very very low. --James Richards (talk) 14:21, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I could ask you the same question, how did you all happen to stumble upon the page all at once? Among all the other pages regarding Macedonia, where you all accidentally stumble upon them at once? Your claim is unfounded as I have been editing on this site long before you nominated the UMD page up for deletion, despite not having a high amount of edits.

Also, by claiming that you nominated the UMD page up for deletion "just a few days after the creation of their Wikipedia taskforce", shows the real reason why you nominated the page up for deletion. Dikaiosyni (talk) 14:57, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Nice attempt at not answering the question..... also I track all pages that I have succesfully nominated for deletion in case they get created again to see if they meet the requirements. It is your opinion that UMD is a notable entity, but in my opinion an organisation that is in few news articles and has less than 1 thousand Youtube subscribers, 2466 Twitter followers, 25,000 Facebook likes and 1722 Instagram followers is not a notable organisation that represents millions of Macedonians. --James Richards (talk) 15:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I did answer your question, a number of times, but you never address my points and try to deflect. UMD never claimed it represents millions of Macedonians, plus there are a number of organisations, smaller in scale than UMD, who are allowed to exist on Wikipedia. 25,000 is a significant amount of people, and it definitely establishes notability. You don't need to have a million followers to be on Wikipedia. Dikaiosyni (talk) 15:14, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hmm, a Facebook page with 25,000 likes that has less than 100 likes on most of their posts, that doesn't sound as being notable to me. --James Richards (talk) 15:37, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Since when do likes determine notability? Dikaiosyni (talk) 15:38, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

"25,000 is a significant amount of people, and it definitely establishes notability." You literally just said that 25,000 people liking the page establishes notability. --James Richards (talk) 15:43, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

So what if I did? I was speaking according to the standard you set, that just because they don't have a million followers, that they aren't notable. I outlined that having 25,000 is still pretty significant. Nevertheless, it does not matter how many likes they have, as the nature of their work is diplomatic, as emphasised by all the articles provided as evidence as to why they are notable. Dikaiosyni (talk) 15:52, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hopefully you will respect the decision of the 2nd deletion discussion of United Macedonian Diaspora. Have a nice day, James --James Richards (talk) 15:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I love how the decision has already been determined, showcasing that there is more going on behind the scenes. Have a nice day too! Dikaiosyni (talk) 15:58, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

It hasn't been determined, but it is not hard to predict considering the amount of delete votes compared to keep votes as well as the fact that the page has already been succesfully nominated for deletion just a few months ago. If an entity is truly notable, a Wikipedia page about it will not have to be created and edited by people part of its organisation as I belive some editors are. --James Richards (talk) 16:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

A lot of the time when there is doubt an entity is notable in the first place, it is likely not notable. It's nothing personal, I have deleted and nominated probably over 30 different pages for deletion including other diaspora organisations such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Italian_American_Foundation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/American_Turkish_Friendship_Council because they did not meet the requirements. The only thing you are victims here of is your organisation's lack of notability. --James Richards (talk) 16:08, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Тутуноберач

I comment on you content, not on you personally, disclosing personal information of people that may/or may not have any relation to editors in order to intimidate editors and stigmatise real life people that probably have nothing to do with all of this is sickening and you must be prevented from participating in wiki. Тутуноберач (talk) 19:34, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Everything has been sorted out now with the admins, all personal information has been removed from the public pages and has been submitted privately to the admins. My apologies I was not aware that this policy applied in terms of giving evidence in Wikipedia investigation. Also how do you know about what has happened if you are not working together? haha Have a nice day. --James Richards (talk) 19:38, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I was following this particular page where it happened. My opinion is that "sorting it out with the admins" aka covering it up without you getting some punishment will only make things worse and not prevent you for engaging in similar behavior in future. Тутуноберач (talk) 19:41, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

You are entitled to your own opinion, if there was no second chances you would already be banned based solely on how many warnings you have received. Anyway, have a nice day. --James Richards (talk) 19:42, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Point of view

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Dikaiosyni (talk) 06:42, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Misusing the warning system is not going to keep your out of context quote online, if you look through the book source that you provided you will clearly see that Macedonian is used as a geographic description and not an ethnic term. During the times of the Ilinden uprising, Macedonian and Bulgarian was an interchangeable term for the same people as you can see by how it is used interchangeably in the book your provided. Ancient Macedonians and the geographic term Macedonian is not the same as the term Ethnic/Slavic Macedonians that came in existence in the 20th century. If you happen to be interested in history then you should look at it objectively and not push nationalistic theories for the sake of it. I suggest in the future that if you are going to try and edit the ethnicity of anyone on Wikipedia that you first start a discussion on the talk page and share your reasoning with other Wikipedia editors. --James Richards (talk) 16:56, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

You are the one misusing the warning system, not me. Ethnic Macedonians did not come into existence in the 20th century, at the time of the Ilinden Uprising there was a Macedonian consciousness. An example from another book: In 1903, the Macedonian Committee, rendered desperate by the pressure of the Greek, Bulgar, and Serbian propagandists, as well as by the Turks, who were beginning to take more active measures against the "comitlara" or "committee people" as they called the revolutionists, precipitated an uprising in the Monastir district, under the leadership of Damyan Grueff, Deltcheff having been killed by soldiers some time previous. Source: Francis Joseph Reynolds, The Story of The Great War (1916), P.F. Collier & Son p. 242. In the same book, Macedonians are defined as: The committee was distinctly going to counteract their [the Serb and Greek] influence and efforts by arousing a spirit of nationality among the Macedonians which was neither Serbian nor Bulgarian nor Greek. And when the Bulgarian Government understood this thoroughly it showed itself unequally friendly. For Prince Ferdinand and his clique dreamed of Greater Bulgaria which they should rule. They wanted no autonomous Macedonia; even less did they want an independent Macedonia (same source, p. 239).

So no James, Macedonian was not an ethnic identity developed in 1944, many people in Macedonia had ethnic Macedonian consciousness prior to that, including when the Ilinden Uprising occurred. The Ilinden Uprising was a Macedonian phenomenon. Dikaiosyni (talk) 20:06, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

So despite Gruev and Delchev identifying as Bulgarians they are Macedonians? This quote that you provided essentially shows that there was no ethnic Macedonian self-conciousness prior to the Iliden Uprising and there wasn't one after. If you knew what you were talking about you would know that the geographic region of Macedonia has been annexed and controlled by various cultural groups mainly Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs. The geographic region of Macedonia had been under Ottoman rule for over 500 years, and when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia fought over what was left which was essentially Macedonia. Gotse Delchev was a socialist inspired by the French revolution and envisioned Macedonia to be a multicultural country for the various ethnicities such as Turks, Aromanians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks, he never fought for a Macedonian ethnicity which was not created yet. And please tell your friends to stop calling me a Greek and a Bulgarian for disagreeing with your points. Crying racism will not change the historical reality.

If I was you I would do something more productive than trying to change the ethnicities of dead people to fit your false historical narrative, the North Macedonian government has already set up historical commisions with Greece and Bulgaria which have already produced results such as the admittance by the North Macedonian government that Alexander the Great and Ancient Macedonia is Greek and that Tsar Samuil is Bulgarian with a lot of historical figures yet to be discussed. This will ultimately result in a correction of history books inside North Macedonia so that they are historically accurate, and vandalizing Wikipedia cannot change this trend. No hard feelings, I understand that you want the best for Macedonians but vandalizing Wikipedia won't benefit anyone, maybe start a charity or business in North Macedonia.

Have a nice day,

--James Richards (talk) 20:30, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Unconstructive

@James Richards, sorry, but I have been finding many of your recent edits in the context of Macedonian related articles as unconstructive. Please do not delete sourced material using SYNTH or WP:OR as reasoning - for example, using "Macedonian is referred to as a regional identity not an ethnicity" as justification to revert edits which are inline with valid sources. Thanks, Beat of the tapan (talk) 08:25, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@Beat of the tapan I am not adding my own point of view, Wikipedia is not a soapbox where people can promote their views and theories, I am admittedly not a native to the region but I do extensive research on the matter and always aim to have an objective view on the matter. When I say Macedonian is referred as a regional identity not an ethnicity I am talking about the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, I am in no way denying that the Macedonian identity is a separate identity today with its own language, I thought that is pretty clear in the context that I was making these points.

These unconstructive edits that you are accusing me of, one was on an edit by a user called Dikaiosyni who added a out of context quote she used as evidence just because it had the word 'Macedonian' in it, I suggest that you take a look at the other pages in this book where you will see that the writer uses the word 'Macedonian' to describe a wide range of people and often uses as a collective term to describe everyone living in the region.

The other 'edit' is on a talk page on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ilinden%E2%80%93Preobrazhenie_Uprising , and I do not see how it is unconstructive.

The ethnic Macedonian identity is one of the newest identities in Europe along with the new Moldovan identity, you can see this in the Macedonian language which was officially formalized in 1944, and is officially the last major Slavic language to be formalized. There is literally no evidence of writing using such an alphabet before it was formalized in 1944, take a look at all the letters done the Krste Mirsikov and Gotse Delchev and you will see the clear difference in the written language.

The Macedonian historiography is an extremely interesting one for scholars and people interested in history, and it is not a unique development in itself, you can see the same thing happening in other European countries such as Moldova and Montenegro where revisionist historical theories try to distance the respective country's history from other nations that them may have been common people with before such, in North Macedonia it was mostly Bulgaria and a bit of Serbia, in Moldova's case this was Romania and in Montenegro's case it was Serbia.

It is very important when writing an encyclopedia that you look at all of the available evidence rather than choosing what suits you, and unfortunately misusing a quote without addressing the meaning of the 'Macedonia' that the very source you are using to back up your claims, the view of what 'Macedonian' during those times is not my view it is backed up by other third-party evidence as well as the source itself that I challenged.

You have the wrong impression of me, I have nothing against Macedonians despite being called a Greek and a Bulgarian for protecting various pages from vandalism, from a concentrated campaign to edit Wikipedia by an organization known as the United Macedonian Diaspora. You can read more about their activities in the future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/United_Macedonian_Diaspora_(2nd_nomination)

In the future if you want to discuss my views on edits I have made, please post a post a link to this page to the respetctive talk page. And also please add a new section next time, to keep things neat.

Have a nice day,

--James Richards (talk) 12:46, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@James Richards, I was mainly referring to the edits (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilinden%E2%80%93Preobrazhenie_Uprising&diff=965916072&oldid=965910413) and (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-Slavic_sentiment&diff=965783229&oldid=965763727) which involve the deletion of (valid) sourced material. Say for the first edit listed, Duncan Perry (author of the source) may disagree with the consensus you are referring to in regard to the Macedonian identity, regardless it is important to respect the citation and stay true to it. If people want further research on the Macedonian identity then they can look up the respective wikipedia pages. Anyway, I view using such a consensus on the Macedonian identity as justification for deleting sourced material as delving into OR/SYNTH, therefore nonconstructive.

The later edit was the deletion of material yet again respectful to the source provided. I support @Dikaiosyni edits in the examples provided and I don't think there is sufficient evidence to link him to the UMD as another justification for reverting his edits. Regards. Beat of the tapan (talk) 03:40, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Beat of the tapan

"Duncan Perry (author of the source) may disagree with the consensus you are referring to in regard to the Macedonian identity", take a good look at the book the source is from and you will see how the term 'Macedonian' is used throughout. I already highlighted that the reason this information was removed because the quote was purposelly used without the correct historical context to push an agenda.

There is sufficient evidence to be suspicious and to challenge the edits, even the closing admin that deleted the UMD page for the second time agreed that there was a clear case of canvassing going on.

Literally one word whose meaning is taken out of context is not sufficient evidence that proves anything especially when you weight together all of the other evidence.

--James Richards (talk) 12:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Your allegation of vandalism on my part

Hi James,

Re: the location of the Clara Barton neighborhood within Edison Township, New Jersey. Correcting a factual error is not vandalism.

Since you are apparently watching the page from Scotland, you may not be familiar with the local geography. I live approximately 2km from the neighborhood in question, which is definitely not in the western portion of Edison Township.

The Clara Barton neighborhood is centered on Amboy Avenue, which runs eastward from Metuchen, NJ to Fords, a portion of Woodbridge Township. Metuchen is a separate borough, which lies approximately in the center of Edison's territory.

If you'd care to look at Google Maps for "Clara Barton, New Jersey" and scroll back until the municipality names become visible, you'd see this. In fact, here it is for your convenience: Map of Clara Barton NJ and surrounding area

Feel free to make the change back to "eastern" on the two pages yourself once you've reviewed the map. I doubt I'll ever make a change to Wikipedia again, if this is the welcome I get on literally my first effort at improving public information.

Cheers,

Gary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.231.86 (talk) 13:54, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

@69.115.231.86

Hi, Gary, my mistake I apologize, I use a software to moderate new changes and since your account was unregistered with very few edits it was flagged as a high-vandalism risk.

I reverted my edit.

Have a nice day,

--James Richards (talk) 14:21, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Cambridge Scholars Publishing/General thanks

You did well to keep your cool and respond rationally to everyone in an otherwise heated AFD, you should be commended on that. It turns out that that organization's most significant source by Cambridge Scholars Publishing likely isn't a reliable source at all (it has no relation to Cambridge University), so it's worth noting that in case you see that source elsewhere on Wikipedia. Thanks for your work anyway. Apples&Manzanas (talk) 01:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

No worries, it was a deletion discussion to remember :D.

Have a nice day,

--James Richards (talk) 12:24, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

WP:VANDAL WP:STALK & WP:BULLY

This is your Level 1 warning of WP:VANDAL, blatant vandalism. New York Times is a WP:Reliable sources. If you have edits to the article, please make them, not delete the entire text. You have been following every edit I make and it is borderline WP:STALK and WP:BULLY. Please stop.

Hello, I'm Macedonia1913. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to [[:Human Rights in Bulgaria, Angel Dzhambazki,Krasimir Karakachanov, and Valeri Simeonov]] have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks.

Macedonia1913 (talk) 02:07, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

I suggest that you stop pushing an agenda on Wikipedia along with your two other partners, it is not complicated. As a member of the United Macedonian Diaspora minority rights organization it is very obvious what you are doing by adding racism sections on the pages of Bulgarian politicians.

--James Richards (talk) 02:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Your accusations are blatantly false accusations. No agenda at all. A New York Times alert came out today in my Google news feed on Roma bigotry in Bulgaria and listed 3 politicians from Bulgaria and their racist rhetoric on Roma - I found it appropriate to make sure the public is aware of these statements that are offensive to Roma peoples. I have no affiliation with the said-organization. However, your calling for its deletion twice raises red-flags clearly, and seems like you have a personal vendetta against it. I'm not sure who the two partners you are referring to, I'm single.

If you support the creation of a page for United Macedonian Diaspora - then be the example and recreate it. You were the one who had it deleted twice. Macedonia1913 (talk) 02:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at [[:Human Rights in Bulgaria, Angel Dzhambazki,Krasimir Karakachanov, and Valeri Simeonov]]. 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. Macedonia1913 (talk) 02:25, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Lucy Foley

Hello Jamesrichards12345. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lucy Foley, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: having your work reviewed in a reliable source indicates significance, use WP:AFD instead. Thank you. SoWhy 13:32, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

@SoWhy

Ok no worries thanks a lot.

--James Richards (talk) 13:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

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Looking for some support

Hi,

Greetings, Just came across your interesting user profile. I was looking for some support in following areas.

• Completion of women's right related English Wikipedia article Kithaab translation on Russian Wikipedia.

• Please do have a look at upcoming articles Draft:Ex-Muslims along with Draft talk:Ex-Muslims and also Superstitions in Muslim societies.

If any of above topics interest you, then pl. do contribute towards expansion of the same.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 09:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

@Bookku:

Sure I will be happy to help, can you send me some specific links of pages that you would like me to help translate please. --James Richards (talk) 14:15, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

@Jamesrichards12345: Hello once again and thanks for your positive response. Translation of women rights related article Kithaab has been partially done at Russian language Wikipedia @ page ru:Китаб (пьеса). I am looking for help in completion of the remaining translation.

From en:Kithaab to ru:Китаб (пьеса)

Since translation to remaining Central Asian languages will depend on availability in Russian language. So your translation help is going to be very valuable for the article.

Many thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 07:13, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

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The word vandalism

Hi Jamesrichards12345, I wanted to explain that I removed the "vandalism" warning you gave here: [1] and replaced it with an NPOV warning. I also added a Discretionary Sanctions alert for the Arab–Israeli conflict. The user has less than 500 edits, so is not allowed to edit in the area of conflict as they did.

Normally I wouldn't change another editor's talk page contributions, and if you want to put yours back you can. But I looked at the edit, and it clearly doesn't meet the definition of vandalism, which is intentionally and maliciously defacing or damaging Wikipedia. The policy states that Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism, and this word should not be used to refer to any contributor in good standing nor to any edits that might have been made in good faith. The user appears to have been an editor in good standing for more than three years, and though there have been a few problems, has never been blocked. The edit certainly did not adhere to the neutral point of view policy, and could be considered disruptive, but they seem to honestly believe they were improving the information in Wikipedia. So it's helpful to assume good faith, and distinguish between vandalism and disruptive or non-neutral editing. Thanks for your understanding... --IamNotU (talk) 15:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@IamNotU: No worries, I will leave the way you edited it. I will take note and work upon this area in the future. Good day! --James Richards (talk) 19:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

re:Source not adding up for me....

Well, it's very hard to find reliables sources about this band, except for blogs or other fan sites. But it's clear their sound became "doomier" when Wino joined. Don't know if i can find it, no problem if you want to do a rollback. --Generale Lee (talk) 07:56, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

@Generale Lee: It's okay if you can change the wording to show the same thing e.g. growth of fame and notability for example and should be okay. Otherwise it may be removed by another editor in the future as the way it is currently written is very specific ('cult like following'). --James Richards (talk) 07:58, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2020

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Pseudoarchaeology; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

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R:E Baba Vanga

Hi I saw you had previously been involved in the discussion here, I believe that it should be changed from Macedonian Bulgarian to Bulgarian as Vanga is better known as Bulgarian rather than a Macedonian Bulgaria per international media as you can see by the sources that I have added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Baba_Vanga#Nationality_on_Passport_-_removal_of_relevant_sources --StoyanStoyanov80 (talk) 13:54, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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