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May 2009[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Okie Dialect[edit]

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All original research, backed up by two thoroughly unscientific and unreliable "sources". In fact, Oklahoma speech is at the interface of Southern American English and Midland American English.

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CFC[edit]

Your personal opinion is not sufficient to remove information cited to reliable sources. Please also be aware that articles relating to abortion, broadly construed, are governed by an arbitration case, whose remedies include, but are not limited to, 1RR on all articles (= you cannot make more than one revert in 24 hours) and discretionary sanctions (= any uninvolved administrator can impose sanctions at his or her discretion on an editor who, having been warned, continues to behave improperly in a topic area in which discretionary sanctions have been authorized). –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 06:57, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In this case there was no reliable source cited. Why do you want to put misleading information in an article. CFC is in no manor of speaking a Catholic organization. It has in fact been disowned by Catholic Authorities at all levels, this is not just my opinion, it is in fact stated in the article itself, it is an obvious contradiction, which affects the creditability of the articlebill (talk) 07:31, 15 January 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Proposed deletion of User reengineering‎[edit]

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Yes, I intended it as the term can refer to more than one of the definitions on the disambiguationbilldakelski (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I intended it as the term can refer to more than one of the definitions on the disambiguationbilldakelski (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BRD[edit]

To conform to the recommended practice described at WP:BRD, let's talk about this at Talk:Catholics for Choice, rather than revert back and forth. Binksternet (talk) 18:26, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are you saying that every sentence of an article must include a reference to the subject?

I don't understand, it is a simple edit related to the subhead. What exactly is the issue?billdakelski (talk) 18:58, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a hard-and-fast requirement, but it is a good idea to have every reference discuss the topic. There's room for a little background info, of course, but if the background ties in with the topic then it supplies much more information. In any case, your addition was one-sided, giving the viewpoint of the Catholic Church. There are many theologians who have spoken about automatic excommunication to say that a woman who gets an abortion may not be automatically excommunicated. As well, the CFC has position papers about the topic, so their POV should be stated and attributed. The subject of latae sententiae is more complex than the simplistic rule you tell the reader. Binksternet (talk) 19:30, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is not a viewpoint, it is the definition of excommunication as written in the actual law, the Code of Canon Law is just that... the code, it is not an opinion. I did not intend to make a controversial point as to the interpretation of the law. If you like, then add that there are opinions of the law. Just as in U.S. law, a law is ajudicated, it is the same in Church law. The Church does not have an opinion of the law just as the congress and president do not have opinons of the laws that they write.billdakelski (talk) 19:43, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2013[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at Catholics for Choice. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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