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Can you please move Logan Evans to Logan Evans (baseball) to make it a disambugation? Yankees10 19:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:54, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Muboshgu, you used the edit summary "maintain history", but in fact you did not maintain the edit history for Logan Evans (footballer) - it is stuck in Logan Evans (baseball), of all places. Could you do a history merge, please? StAnselm (talk) 01:35, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With how badly it was messed up through edit warring, I'm not sure that can be done. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, admins are supposed to be able to do it, but never mind - I tagged the article. StAnselm (talk) 04:08, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Says the one who caused the problem in the first place... If you had not edited over the history of the baseball player we wouldn't be here now would we?-- Yankees10 04:14, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yankees10, I'm not sure what you were thinking with the article about the baseball player, but you created the article and then redirected it to Seattle Mariners minor league players. It's like you didn't think he was notable until another person of the same name appeared! StAnselm (talk) 04:28, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is literally standard practice. "Creating" an article over the edit history of a whole other person is not.-- Yankees10 04:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please be WP:CIVIL. To err is human. StAnselm, in the future, don't create an article for Subject A over a redirect for Subject B; put it in its own place and request a move after if you think it's the primary topic. Same advice goes to The-Pope. Let me try to do a history merge of it. I'm not sure it'll work. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it worked. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:17, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. StAnselm (talk) 18:17, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Go to my talk page and see what user Stefen 𝕋ower wrote there. Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 22:12, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Domen von Wielkopolska, one editor is not a consensus. Contested content does not remain pending discussion. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:15, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And also one editor is contesting my content. Where are we going to discuss this contested content? Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 22:42, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Muboshgu, you are an administrator so I am proceeding with extreme caution due to concern on being banned if I say something you don't like.

Not stating you will do as above but my experience seeing other Administrators and reading about recent biases WP has in mainstream media worries me.

You and I have disagreed on another TP over a possible addition to an article. It seems you do not like the sources I brought even though they are not blocked nor deprecated.

In another TP which I dont see you have edited any time in the recent past (apologies if you did and I missed it; if so, please state so) you replied to me negatively on another sourced addition I asked.

Given your years of experience I dont believe this to be an example of following every post I make and try to counter my arguments. I will thus proceed with a RfC on that TP.

I would like to ask, very respectfully, for you to please not reply to me, edit my comments or post on my TP. I apologize for asking this, but if we can have an uninvolved administrator do so, if there is a need, that would be great.

Thank you for reading.

Very respectfully,

2601:19E:427E:5BB0:8BAB:B116:675B:AB5F (talk) 01:11, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot and will not agree to not reply to your talk page posts. I don't edit other people's posts unless they meet WP:REVDEL criteria. I will not block or sanction you as I don't act as an administrator on pages where I am WP:INVOLVED as an editor. You can get feedback from uninvolved administrators by visiting various noticeboards. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:14, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying. Just to understand properly, when I ask you to please not interact with me as an editor, you are confirming that Wikipedia:USERTALKSTOP doesn't apply?

If it's ok to ask, is this because of your Administrator status or because its a personal decision to ignore my request?

The above are all valid questions and asked without ill will. I am just trying to learn. WP is an extremely complex and arcane place.

Thanks.

Respectfully,

2601:19E:427E:5BB0:8BAB:B116:675B:AB5F (talk) 01:37, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to article talk pages, not your user talk page. I will adhere to WP:USERTALKSTOP, as it says, within reason. Despite the unusual nature of the request, which I don't see as warranted. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:43, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I've some across some...well, interesting editing. An editor is blanking article talk pages without establishing an archive page. This seems to be mostly' blanking bot notices, "External links modified" etc. I've asked "why" on their user talk but would appreciate some guidance here. I mean, is this actually good practice? Am I missing something? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 16:04, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shearonink, I have seen people remove bot notices like this before, and it hasn't been considered to be problematic. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:36, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for saying so. I had come across it on user talk pages but never on article talk pages. *sigh*...learn something new every day around here. - Shearonink (talk) 21:26, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear User:Muboshgu I appreciate your contribution to WP: community and helping other users for updating the better quality article. regarding the edit change below; I relocated the contents to the relevant section. Please reply me on this subject with ping to my user-name, if you have feedback or suggestion for it. Goodtiming8871 (talk) 01:57, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you remove from Elon Musk's article his conservative political activism? Currently, it is undeniable that this is a very notable and important part of Elon Musk. In addition to The Washington Post and CNN sources, just look at his X or Twitter account, almost every post he makes is explicit conservative political activism. He cheers, pushes and promotes conservative politicians, attacks those who are not, spreads conspiracy theories and far-right accounts. This is no small matter. This is a man who openly says he uses his position of power to promote conservative and radical right-wing politics. Esterau16 (talk) 15:58, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read MOS:ROLEBIO. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:41, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]