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Lindy Li ↗

I liked your edit at Lindy Li ↗, but please check WP:RSP ↗ to make sure your sourcing hasn't been forbidden. Far-left sources often get a nod, but most sources that lean even a teensy bid right are "unreliable". The source I used, the ''Washington Examiner'', is ok. Cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 16:02, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

:Are you collaborating with @Magnolia677to make Li look bad? I am just curious why the two of you are bent on including quotes from minor interviews. Do you do the same for other commentators? Why are you targeting Li?
:Is there an impartial arbiter to whom we can appeal? I feel like you are vandalizing her page, with all due respect. Napoleonjosephine2020 (talk) 01:51, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::I can’t speak for Magnolia, but I’m not trying to “look bad,” unless you believe that expressing conservative-leaning views and explanations for why President Trump was re-elected makes her “look bad.”
::Also, you keep hitting on this “minor interview” point, here and elsewhere ↗. Fox News is the most influential conservative paper and news outlet in the country; it’s not minor, and Fox reporters have specifically printed articles about Ms. Li’s interviews, when they don’t for most who appear on the channel. EncycloDeterminate (talk) 02:10, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Can we please come to a consensus here? I think including the entire transcript of a throwaway interview is a bit over the top. You don't do this for anyone else. Why her? She's gotten so much abuse for these interviews. You are essentially directing more harassment and abuse at her. Simply look at how many times she's been called a w-- and a c-- on X this week. Napoleonjosephine2020 (talk) 02:47, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
::::I’m sensitive to anti-Asian racism as a second-generation Chinese American, and although linking my Twitter account to my Wikipedia account may well be used against me sometime in the future (I am a Democrat who is generally supportive of Democratic policies), here ↗ is a tweet in which I responded to a reply unjustly referencing her Asian descent.
::::As you can see, I’m not personally a fan of Lindy Li. I’m sure you’re also on Twitter coming to her defense, assuming (and let’s just say it openly) you aren’t Lindy herself. It’s okay for Wikipedians to have opinions, but we should try to set them aside when editing. And I don’t feel like you’d done that here.
::::I’d also add that the more extensive portion of the interview Li gave that I added was embedded in a footnote. Only three short sentences were included in the main text. EncycloDeterminate (talk) 03:04, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Wow, so you called her an "opportunistic grifter" on a public forum. You openly admit to harboring animus towards her (and no, I am not Li). For that alone, you shouldn't be eligible to edit her page. I haven't posted anything on X about her.
:::::The footnote you added is highly prominent given the brevity of her page. You are obviously doing everything you can to damage her reputation. And the fact that you admitted to it is the scariest part. Respectfully, you should really abstain from sabotaging her page. Napoleonjosephine2020 (talk) 03:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Edit warring

You've been here long enough to know not to violate 3RR. But I don't see any warning about your recent edits, so I'm writing one now. '''<span style="color:#8b00ff;">Eve</span><span style="color:#6528c2;">rgr</span><span style="color:#3f5184;">een</span><span style="color:#197947;">Fir</span>''' (talk) 06:52, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

:Understood. I’ll leave Lindy’s page with her latest edit for the time being, and others who believe my inclusion of her interview comments was reasonable as opposed to “sabotage” can make edits if they choose. EncycloDeterminate (talk) 07:33, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

December 2024

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EncycloDeterminate unblocked

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Contentious topics alert

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Hi EncycloDeterminate. I can only find one contentious topic notice in the logs, though you've been alerted to more. Apologies if you've already been notified, but Arab–Israeli conflict ↗ is a contentious topic. --Hipal (talk) 17:22, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Interview with Jeffry Sachs by TC on Dec. 16th 2024

Dear colleague, please note, I agree with you that the interview should be mentioned on the BIO page of Jeffry Sachs.

I did write in the talk page:
So, dear Encyclopedia Lu:
It is clear that the interview is noteworthy

More see please here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jeffrey_Sachs#Interview_on_foreign_policy_16._Dec._2024 <small class="autosigned">— 

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Careful

We don't ''know'' what the outcome of a post-redistricting election would have been ↗. ''Probably'', yes, but that's not enough to say it ''would'' have happened. I've replaced "that would eliminate" with "intended to eliminate", because that was the stated intention. DS (talk) 16:39, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

:Yeah, I think that’s fair. Thanks for your scrupulousness on this item. EncycloDeterminate (talk) 23:21, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Minor edits

You've been editing for 12 years. It's thus about time that you learned what a minor edit is; you can read up on it at Help:Minor edit ↗. TL:DR – do not mark any further edits as minor until you've read that page. '''<span style="color:var(--color-base, #202122);">Schwede</span><span style="color: #FF4500;">66</span>''' 19:38, 23 April 2026 (UTC)
:I’m aware it’s a bit of a judgment call, and that my latest edits might have landed on the wrong side of it. Assuming you’re mostly referring to the pair of New Zealand-based edits, my rationale was that the sentence I removed was redundant given the previous one, and that the two words I replaced with synonyms could have been improved uncontroversially. EncycloDeterminate (talk) 21:50, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Louisiana v. Callais schema

Greetings, EncycloDeterminate. I reverted the edit you made to the image caption in the ''Louisiana v. Callais ↗'' article back to its correct order left-to-right. You might want to re-check it. -The Gnome (talk) 07:10, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
:Oh, my bad—thanks for the correction. That was a bit confusing, since I read that the Fair Representation Act called for multi-member districts. EncycloDeterminate (talk) 09:09, 9 May 2026 (UTC)