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Dr.Ommaya died on 11 july 2008 at islamabad,pakistan.I was his family doctor here in pakistan.

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Hello DragonLord, You're right, it's not the right phrasing. I took it from the HDCP article and I felt something was wrong about it, but I couldn't say what. Now I know. The HDCP article may need to be corrected though. The RedBurn (ϕ) 19:59, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Edited the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection article to correct the issue. I've struck out the first part of the warning because this wasn't really your fault. DragonLordtalk/contribs 21:11, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Found the relevant edit and issued a warning to the correct user. DragonLordtalk/contribs 21:21, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks DragonLord! By the way, there seem to be more articles where "rights" is replaced by "restrictions". The RedBurn (ϕ) 21:36, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

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Hello DrKay, Thank you for you message. I may not have understood that rule correctly, but how did I break it? I only made one revert (), didn't I? Anyway, it probably wouldn't have been necessary had I added the ref right away. The RedBurn (ϕ) 19:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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Sorry for inadvertently failing to explain my revert. WP:DDD is merely a summary of guidelines. MOS:DABPRIMARY states more specifically that "When the ambiguous term has a primary topic but that article has a different title (so that the term is the title of a redirect), the primary topic line normally uses the redirect to link to that article[.]" (Emphasis added.) --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:53, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

No problem. Thank you for the info. I indeed found out about it later. Though I'd still prefer to see the plain link as I was searching for a link "United States", not "America". I really like the guideline for not piping the links and I would have preferred it applied even for the main topic. The RedBurn (ϕ) 09:13, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

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You removed some stuff in DRV by accident

Please look at this edit. You overwrote my previous change. Could you fix that please? -- RoySmith (talk) 17:35, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry RoySmith, it's fixed. The RedBurn (ϕ) 17:45, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi. I see in a recent addition to List of HTTP status codes you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 11:54, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa, no problem! The RedBurn (ϕ) 16:03, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

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Sorry I forgot to put it in my edit summary, but MOS:DABABBREV and MOS:DABMENTION is where we outline the minimum requirements for disambiguation links. Happy editing. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:24, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

It's mentioned in Robotic lawn mower. What's the best way to include both with only one link? The RedBurn (ϕ) 15:45, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
It doesn't look to me like either article is providing any information about this Exact Positioning Operating System. If I were you I would gather a couple reliable sources, add some relevant information about it to an article, and then link to that article from the disambiguation page. -- Fyrael (talk) 18:31, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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It's not a perfect quote of the original text, but feel free to rephrase it instead of reverting my edits. The RedBurn (ϕ) 04:15, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
I would have, but close paraphrasing is still considered a copyvio, and much of the text was word for word. An administrator will review it, but please don't restore it without rewriting it. Also, I don't believe your addition meets the WP:MILPOP guidelines for pop-culture mentions,as it's not about the aircraft as a whole. If we had an article on the siren, that would be the appropriate place for it, as.of now, we don't. BilCat (talk) 04:22, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
I said that you could "rephrase it" to prevent it to be "close paraphrasing", I don't see what prevents you to do it except the fact that you don't seem to want to see this addition to the article and seem to try to find any pretext to remove it. The RedBurn (ϕ) 04:28, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
There are two issue involved. Copy violations, which are legal matters, and whether the content is appropriate, which is an editorial matter. In either case, you shouldn't be restoring the content, as that is edit warring. Instead, you need to use the article's talk page, and get a consensus to restore it first. BilCat (talk) 04:35, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
So I guess you "would have" rephrased it, but you didn't want that content in the article. Each time I've restored the content, I've tried the fix the issues you mentioned. If it doesn't meet WP:MILPOP for a pop culture section, it can be moved to a different section. I put it there because I didn't find a section about the "trumpet". The RedBurn (ϕ) 04:56, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

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Hello! ,there is an inaccuracy in your authored work prevalence of consanguinity namely the data listed by the original source mentions only 5 specific regions of India rather than the whole country. India should lie in the range of 5-9% rather than 20-29% after accounting for national population in 2012,the same year of publication Clumsyoof (talk) 09:32, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, I've updated India. The RedBurn (ϕ) 10:00, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

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Rewriting a part of my contribution to the MATE desktop environment

Hello,

I am a GNU/Linux user of one year. This week, I have been tinkering with Arch Linux and tiling WMs. The Arch wiki has also been a awesome resource for me. MATE isn't modern however it has a special place in my heart and being the desktop environment used by my almost first ever Linux distribution: "ParrotOS Security".

Since then, it's been something like this: Ubuntu -> ParrotOS -> Debian -> ParrotOS -> Debian -> ParrotOS -> Arch Linux -> Arch spinoffs -> Arch Linux -> ParrotOS -> Arch Linux. That's not even my full distro hopping history despite not staying long on Linux.

MATE has always been special to me and I'd like to interject in two ways about the removal of a part of my contribution:

  1. I haven't mentioned MATE is a Linux distribution, I only mentioned that it had too many tools better put off in their own metapackages. I imagine 1% of MATE users need the accessibility tools.
  2. The reference just mentioned the pre-installed tools. I take blame for that however the only references would be Reddit threads, personal anger and forums.


I hope we can all agree that power users wouldn't prefer the bloat of MATE and just the core functioning. It should be optional and not bundling everything of MATE into a single metapackage including tools 50% will uninstall.

I would like to hear your ideas of saying that not everybody prefers the built-in software with more, ahem proper citations. AntiAmericanist (talk) 15:05, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Looking back on the last sentence, it wasn't very understandable. I'd like to hear how you could reword it.
I think I gave it too little attention but I hope you understand what I was trying to imply. It is also worth it since nothing is without criticism. AntiAmericanist (talk) 15:07, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
@AntiAmericanist Hi, that specific edit mentioned Firefox, LibreOffice "and other tools" being installed with MATE. This clearly means that it's a MATE distribution which includes these apps.
About your distro hopping, if it is because you didn't find the right balance between software choice, up-to-date software, and reliability, you might want to try NixOS. In case you don't know about it, it's very different from other distributions. It requires using the Nix language to configure it, which is far from user friendly. There's nix-software-center to install apps, but it doesn't yet support installing multiple apps at once.
The advantages are the vast software choice (you can search them at https://search.nixos.org/packages), the ability to use both stable (older) and recent software, the reliability of system updates, the ability to revert updates/configuration changes and the fact that your entire configuration (not just installed apps) can be saved and quickly applied to a different computer. The RedBurn (ϕ) 09:16, 26 December 2025 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
I am using Arch Linux as I prefer the latest software and quite understand how to fix things when I messed up. I don't wanna learn a whole new language to use my OS. It seems logical for me to just continue my work as is. AntiAmericanist (talk) 15:48, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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