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Hello >:D

Guess who?. Ranger1434 (talk) 18:20, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

You said you had a Wikipedia! So I looked up Rainbow Shifter lol Ranger1434 (talk) 00:38, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Being Constructive

So for the confusion, however I am being constructive. I'm deleting misinformation, someone or a number of people have gone on a lot of the free market/ Austrian economic related pages and are destroying them. They are modifying the information and just bashing them and putting untrue statements about how there "unscientific" theories. I didn't go on though the history yet, But I'm sure its a person on the far left political spectrum, because one of the pages they were talking about socialism. I'm not going on the communist wikipedia pages and destroying them, so I would expect them not destroying ours. I don't know now if your involved in this or not but I would appreciate if you would not contribute to this destruction. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anon4567 (talk • contribs) 09:11, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for informing me of my mistake, I was a little confused and I guess I didn't read the instructions throughly enough. Again thank you. Rainbow Shifter (talk) 15:35, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Comment

Hi. Re: Wikipedia talk:Ignore all rules#This is nonsense, that thread was only active from June 12-13, and hasn't been touched in a week. I'd suggest that your comment is likely to fan the flames back into action, which I'm guessing you don't want! Just a thought. –Quiddity (talk) 17:31, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate your prompt and helpful response, Rainbow! Ailemadrah (talk) 19:47, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Whether it is sarcasm or not, thank you. Rainbow Shifter (talk) 19:51, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

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Edits to the sandbox

Hi there Rainbow Shifter, sorry to take so long to respond (got sidetracked by RL issues). Very good job with the first several points. My only suggestion, for referencing, is to familiarise yourself with the {{cite}} family of templates (i.e. {{cite web}}, {{cite book}}, {{cite news}}, {{cite journal}}, etc.). These templates go in between ref tags, as with your earlier references. Each page I've linked to here has a blank template and an explanation of what each individual parameter does (there's a lot of overlap, so you only need to learn most parameters once). Once you are familiar with the use of the templates, or even as you're starting, you may find it easier to just copy and paste formatted templates from the edit source page and then change the parameters in accordance with what you want.

Cheers! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:00, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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As you've worked on the main X and Y page to some degree, would you mind helping out on this one? It was created by an editor who is refusing to ackowledge that he copy-pasted everything from Serebii.net and I need help to keep the copyvios off.—Ryulong (琉竜) 19:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Of course I shall help. Rainbow Shifter (talk) 06:51, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hello, I got your name from this list.

Would you please get involved in the article Hog-dog rodeo. As you can read at the following links, Link1 Link2 Hog-Dog Fighting, Hog-Baiting, Hog-Dog Rodeos, Hog dogging, hawg dawgin and hog dog "rodeos" are synonyms for the exact same activity. This article should be moved to "Hog-baiting", so it is inline with the naming convention of the other articles in its classification here. Wikipedia defines Dog baiting as follows:

"setting game dogs against a chained or confined animal for sport. The dogs bite, and tear to subdue the opposing animal by incapacitating or killing it. Baiting is a blood sport used for entertainment and gambling."

This definition fits for Hog-Dog Rodeo, Hog-baiting, Hog-Dawging, or whatever name or idiom you want to call it. It is all the same activity. Please see the two citations I provided above for third-party confirmation. Just because some parts of the world do not call it illegal, does not mean is not Hog-baiting. It is all the same activity, it might be marketed and packaged differently, but it is still the same and fits into the definition of Dog-baiting. Currently, one editor Chrisrus does not like the term "Hog-baiting" and keeps reverting the article, even though I have provided strong third-party citations, he seems to be exerting article ownership and is not displaying a NPOV.

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