User talk:RyanPLB

Editors here don't provide help through Teams or Skype or other forms of direct contact. We provide help by way of all sorts of Wikipedia discussion pages. I assumed you knew where to get help around here because the first entry on your talk page was a welcome message with all sorts of information about how to do things and where to ask for information. However I notice now that you erased it almost immediately (most editors leave it at the top of their talk page indefinitely. Click here to see it. That message lists Wikipedia:Questions which gives places to go. I recommend Wikipedia:Teahouse as a place to start. StarryGrandma (talk) 00:32, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Editors may not provide help through Teams or Skype but perhaps they can start? It seems like any suggestion given by anyone is slapped down straight away. Thank you for the Teahouse suggestion - I shall look that up. RyanPLB (talk) 09:33, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your user page may not meet Wikipedia's user page guidelines. It is intended for basic information about yourself, your interests and goals as they relate to editing Wikipedia, as well as disclosures of conflicts of interest and paid editing. Although a lot of freedom is allowed in personalizing your user page, it is not:

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it's okay. It is just a place I use to practice. Thanks. RyanPLB (talk) 21:32, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Please stop removing the "party" content from infoboxes in constituency articles such as Leeds North West. It is a standard field in {{Infobox UK constituency}} . If you do not think this field should be included, please start a discussion at the template's talk page. Thanks. PamD 06:53, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Until the (UK Parliament constituency) title returns, I will not! RyanPLB (talk) 18:26, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

So you are saying "Until I get a consensus decision overturned, I'm going to carry on damaging the encyclopedia"? I will report you at WP:ANI if you continue removing those parties. PamD 00:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Why are you hating on me so much? Is it because I’m gay or have epilepsy. Perhaps I should report you for not accepting someone else’s viewpoint. I am not damaging Wikipedia at all. I just don’t feel my thoughts ever get taken into consideration. RyanPLB (talk) 06:14, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Well I guess I will just have to accept it! I hope you’re happy! RyanPLB (talk) 06:19, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, you are damaging the encyclopedia by removing an element of information which editors have agreed is a useful part of the article, ie the MP's party. You have not shown us your viewpoint on this, as you don't often use edit summaries. If your view is that the party should not be included in the infobox, I have told you, above, that the place to discuss this is at Template talk:Infobox UK constituency. That's how Wikipedia works: there is discussion, and a consensus is reached.

In the case of the "(UK Parliament constituency)" disambiguator, there was a discussion, it reached a conclusion, and that conclusion is now being implemented. I preferred the previous system (indeed I was instrumental in it being introduced) but I agree that it really didn't fit within English Wikipedia's overall framework of rules and couldn't reasonably be defended. The discussion was at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#RfC on pre-emptive disambiguation in constituency article titles, where I see you've added a comment calling it a "terrible decision". That does not justify your series of edits in which you ask for articles to be moved back to the disambiguated titles where disambiguation is not required.

If you are going to continue editing Wikipedia, you need to understand that decisions are made collectively and one individual's views do not override consensus. There are plenty of places for discussion, and for suggestions to improve the encyclopedia, but removing valid information to make a point about a decision you think is "terrible" is not a constructive way forward.

And, of course, I did not know you were gay or had epilepsy, and if I had done it would not affect my comments on your editing. PamD 09:02, 9 December 2025 (UTC)