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Accept reason: no trace of any existing block, it must have expired, autoblocks only last 24h Ronhjones (Talk) 21:07, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
{unblock | reason=I have nothing to do with the user who has been blocked. That i can say with 100% honesty and conviction. I also understand that the blocking that was done is a neccassary inconvenience, which must be beared with patience. But i jope to be allowed to resume my normal activities as soon as possible and hopefully i will not be affected by the same problem again. Thanks. Suid-Afrikaanse (talk) 13:29, 2 April 2011 (UTC)}
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Sonny Bill
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S.B. Williams
[edit]Hi Suid-Afrikaanse, first of all I addeda photo, not only tried to :) But to the point. I added the most actual (september 2011) and high quality photo into section named 2011, so I don't think it's inapropriate there. I suppose it's quite ok for news about world cup etc. As I can see, he's you idol, and you're patron of this page, but in this situation you seems to be overprotective. I may try to convince you, that it's the only photo, where he is not on the pitch, or that he shows his second profil, but it becomes riddiculus.
I do not have any other photos of him, as I have never been to the southern hemisphere. And if it's not a problem for you, do not write on the page that is a redirect. Arvedui89 (talk) 18:16, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
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Sonny Bill Williams disputes
[edit]Please keep these on the article talk page. Using users' talk pages to discuss your disagreements with individual editors about this article is not the convention, and is not helpful. Cheers. BiggerAristotle (talk) 11:31, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Please, please, stop edit warring over this. My disagreeing with you on this is not personal. Discuss it, don't continue to edit war. BiggerAristotle (talk) 22:04, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Crouch, touch, pause, yellow card
[edit]Oh dear. SBY hasn't exactly covered himself with glory in his time with the All-Blacks at the 2011 RWC... --Shirt58 (talk) 10:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Aag man, I was hoping that Wales would win, because NZ are soooo going to crush the French next Sunday. Meanwhile, it would appear that SBW continues to write his own WP:BLP violations.--Shirt58 (talk) 11:46, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, we're about find out :-) . Hopefully it will be as good as, say, any run-of-the-mill greatest sporting rivalry in the world match.--Shirt58 (talk) 08:12, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Sonny Bill Williams again
[edit]You are now edit-warring over a comma. Please stop. BiggerAristotle (talk) 22:00, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Sonny-Bill-Williams
[edit]You are edit-warring over a hyphen! Please stop. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source - see WP:PSTS for example. The spelling used by an editor in another article is irrelevant. Again, you are edit-warring over a hyphen. A hyphen. BiggerAristotle (talk) 10:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Re this edit.
It is puzzling to me to claim that George Washington did not summon a minister to his deathbed based on what The Economist asserts in an unsourced opinion column. Washington had 3.5 litres of blood bled from his body before he died - in addition to the medical condition of shock that this caused he was also suffering from a severe swollen sore throat, which was either acute epiglottitis or quinsy. From the time he fell severely ill, around 3am that Saturday morning, until he died at 10pm that Saturday night was only 19 hours...maybe there wasn't enough time, maybe he didn't think he was going to die that day. After all, in comparison to the rest of the male members of his family, Washington was relatively vigorous...he didn't die of tuberculosis like so many of his relatives, he died of a swollen sore throat that was very rapid in its onset. He died from suffocation (because he was unable to breathe with this swollen/sore throat) and from severe shock. (because he lost at least 3.5 litres of blood).
Also, to claim that a cited reference or information should appear in one Wikipedia article simply because it appears in another Wikipedia article, as you claimed in the edit summary for this edit is also somewhat puzzling...you are the editor who added that self-same citation and your assertion is similar to using one Wikipedia article to reference another WIkipedia article, a type of circular referencing (and against WP guidelines). --Shearonink (talk) 03:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
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SBY, erm, SBW again
[edit]Hi again Suid-Afrikaanse. Thanks for this correction. SBY's article seems to have - aag, man, there I go with acronym confusion yet again - SBW's article seems to have a lot of unreferenced height/weight edits. Could you possibly post the most recent definitive ref on the talk page? --Shirt58 (talk) 12:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Iran's aid
[edit]This was based on the fact that Iran's military gets $7 Billion a year for its budget. How is Iran giving more aid to Syria's army than it has to spend on its own? Jeancey (talk) 23:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- I have been looking online to find some sort of idea of what iran is giving syria, and the only number I can find is USD$1 Billion in financial aid. [1][2]. I also found an article from July 2011 where the Ayatollah said he would support giving 5.8 billion, but nothing about whether that actually happened.[3] I'm not sure the 9 Billion is correct, maybe it was just a number thrown out by a single iranian official or something. From what I can tell, only 1 billion in actually financial aid has been given, which is a much more reasonable number considering the iranian budget. Jeancey (talk) 00:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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Editing guidelines
[edit]Hi Suid-Afrikaanse. You are repeatedly making the same mistakes - adding uncited material, removing cited material, removing templates requesting citations and generally editing in an unhelpful manner. You are continuing to discuss changes on individual talk page instead of on the article talk page, and it appears that you have no interest in anything on Wikipedia but Sonny Bill Williams and whitewashing any controversy, and this is a potential Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You also are very close to edit warring, which you been warned of before. Please try read and implement some of the guidelines for how to edit constructively, or else your behaviour will need to be reported on the incidents page. Greenman (talk) 10:28, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
- Hello Greenman. I have heard the exact same accusations from a previous editor (that got nowhere in the end), so your exaggerated claims against me are nothing new or worrying. So please do not lecture me about proper Wikipedia etiquette when i am doing nothing wrong. All i am doing is removing speculation, giving clear reasons to editors who make certain edits on their own talk pages and adding referenced information. Good day to you too.Suid-Afrikaanse (talk) 10:49, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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SBW article
[edit]Controversies sections should generally be avoided, especially on biographies of living people, if you are going to add any controversial material on him, then it should be really well sourced. I'm not sure how notable some of those events are, just because they're covered in the press doesn't mean they warrant inclusion. The things I kept there involved the police (rather than a trivial celebrity scandal), so I thought they warranted inclusion more than the other two incidents. Some of the other material I removed was unencyclopaedic – such as the shoulder charge statement. You're better off quoting someone authoritative rather than saying "a maneuver for which he has been described as the best and most famous exponent of" – it reads like fancruft. If you want to discuss the article anymore, it'd be best if it was on talk:Sonny Bill Williams so there is a centralised point of discussion that can be easily referenced by any interested editors. I think the article needs a fair bit of work to be ready for WP:GAN, but if you want my advice and ideas, I'd be glad to provide them. - Shudde talk 11:04, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
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