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I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others’ words. Weird, isn’t it?

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  • I just checked the articles for “Sällskapsresan” and “French Fried Vacation”. The only edit that was reverted (or at least the only edit whose author would’ve been notified by the revert) changed “Norwegian” to “German” on the former page. I also didn’t find “is on DVD for exceptionally cheap” anywhere. None of these articles are protected (i.e. “locked”) either. Which article did this happen on?


  • You can ask me about sources. We probably all know what “reliable” means, and claims may cite any reliable source (even sources written by the subject of the article if the fact is uncontroversial). However, for an article to be included in Wikipedia, and mainly so that it’s possible for the article to be improved so that it conforms with Wikipedia’s guidelines, articles must pass “notability” (a misnomer, see efforts to change its name); the biggest component of notability that’s most often failed is that there is enough coverage in reliable sources not written by the subject, and that’s precisely so that we won’t have an article that’s entirely the subject’s own puffery that turns out to be false or egregiously biased. (Not an admin because I probably have too short a temper, but nonetheless experienced.)





  • During reconstruction and until Jim Crow, the Republicans had a base in the South. And limited government and regulation isn’t a geographical belief but flipped between the two parties anyways, even before the Southern strategy, as we can see in the 20s. Northern Democratic Party was always a thing, and in fact its splitting of the vote against Southern Democrats was one of the reasons Lincoln won his first election.