User talk:Rhino Ryan

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DYK for Arlene Hiss[edit]

On 9 December 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Arlene Hiss, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that A. J. Foyt praised Arlene Hiss for "what a fine job [she'd] done" after racing against her? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arlene Hiss. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Arlene Hiss), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A cookie for you![edit]

Arlene Hiss is an interesting article to read, thanks for all of your effort! Royal broil 13:54, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2022[edit]

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Mayra Flores, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. The category being added must already exist, and must be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Please also note that these articles are subject to WP:DS. Do not reinstate them without adequate discussion and consensus. PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:05, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I included the category based off of the citation below, which has already been included in the article proper.

Link: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mayra-flores-texas-congress-qanon-1368616/ Rhino Ryan (talk) 21:09, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is not how we categorize people and also please read WP:RSP PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:13, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

August 2022[edit]

Hi Rhino Ryan! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Libs of TikTok that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. — Shibbolethink ^(♔ ^♕) 11:24, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2022[edit]

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Final warning: Unsourced or poorly-sourced statements about living people[edit]

Hi, Rhino Ryan. I see you've received notes above about edits you made that edited unsourced or poorly-sourced statements about Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, J. K. Rowling, and Mayra Flores. I've just reverted another such edit you made, this one about Jennifer Sey. Please understand that Wikipedia takes content about living people very seriously, holding it to high standards of verifiability, neutrality, lack of original research, and source reliability. It is absolutely unacceptable to paraphrase a blog post someone wrote as "defend[ing] ... praise of Adolf Hitler", without citing any source that characterizes the statement as praise. On Wikipedia, primary sources must only be used for very straightforward claims about a subject. Adding your own editorial interpretation of what someone said violates all three of our core content policies: It is original research, it is unverifiable in independent sources, and it is non-neutral.

Given that you haven't replied to your previous warnings for similar issues, I want to stress this here: If you continue to make edits like this, the next step will be a request for action from an uninvolved administrator. I hope it does not come to that. I'll submit politely that if you find yourself unable to edit about a topic with requisite detachment, it may be better to edit about other topics instead. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 22:14, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, if I write about something like a person's views, I will be certain to only refer to it as something cited by a reliable, secondary source. Rhino Ryan (talk) 03:25, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]