User talk:Philip Cross

Friendly notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Fasscass. Thank you.— Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 04:49, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Mhawk10. Philip Cross (talk) 05:29, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merger of Western Electric articles

I have proposed a merger of the Western Electric (tube manufacturer) article into the main Western Electric article. I have posted a thread on Talk:Western Electric (tube manufacturer) to discuss the proposed merger. I invite everyone's thoughts on the idea.

List of Universal Music Group labels

It seems confused about not all labels owned by UMG. Anything you can do to help would be kindly appreciated. 121.120.234.48 (talk) 02:42, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

BLP discretionary sanctions alert

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Levivich^[block] 15:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

You have again violated WP:BLPRESTORE, if you do not self-revert I will be seeking a BLP ban. nableezy - 05:35, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

As Dr Petra Marquandt-Bigman was an authority on the area under discussion, I believe the source is legitimate. You are welcome to disagree, of course. Philip Cross (talk) 05:39, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

I will see you at AE then. nableezy - 05:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Please see WP:AE#Philip Cross. nableezy - 05:54, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Jack

Much better that way round, thanks. I should have seen that! (And I know we should not get involved with stuff we are editing but, sheesh, what a hopeless dreadful sad person ... really.) Cheers DBaK (talk) 19:03, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Priyamvada Gopal article

Hi Philip Cross, I noticed you changed my edit in the Priyamvada Gopal article. I think more should be said about her public engagement. She has contributed to several media outlets and is well-known for her work in the media, so mentioning it in the introduction seems reasonable. Thoughts? LumumbaX (talk) 06:33, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Your suggestion first needs to be developed in the main text using reliable sources. The comment I removed from the summary ("and her work has appeared in a number of online and print publications") is a little too generalised even for a summary and, as I mentioned before, can apply to all academics. At present, direct citations of Professor Gopal's opinions are underdeveloped, but quoting any subject directly from a primary source can be problematic (see WP:PST). Philip Cross (talk) 07:03, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Arbitration enforcement block

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Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

Philip Cross is topic-banned from living people who are significantly involved in politics, broadly construed (including, but not limited to, candidates, activists, and political journalists or commentators)

You have been sanctioned per discussion at AE (permalink).

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Editing of Biographies of Living Persons#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you.

I do want to stress, the point of "significantly" here is not to allow a bunch of testing of the limits, but rather to keep you from getting blocked because you copy-edited some actor's article without realizing that they endorsed Obama in 2008 or tweeted in support of Brexit once. It's a safety valve, not a loophole, and I would encourage you to act as if the "significantly" requirement isn't even there. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 20:45, 29 July 2022 (UTC)