User talk:Quartzgoldbling

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Wikipedia and copyright

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 00:04, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 00:21, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Quartzgoldbling, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz Read! Talk! 05:05, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

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"Bias"

Just to clarify on what you are alleging to be a "soft bias" - a phrase stating the CCC was not affiliated to OISE was in the paragraph previously - I just cleaned it up so that it wasn't parenthetical ie so it was a separate sentence making the paragraph easier to read. I suspect whoever initially put in the mention did so because OISE is considered left-wing and "radical" (and has been a target of criticism in recent years by Charles McVety) and an editor wanted to make it clear CCC had no relationship other than to rent space so that CCC wouldn't be tainted by association with OISE in a reader's mind. So if there's a "bias" behind the sentence's initial inclusion it wasn't an anti-CCC bias but an anti-OISE bias. I added the reference to McMaster because it seemed odd to mention there was no affiliation with OISE without saying the same of McMaster (and indeed, mentioning one but not the other might suggest there was an affiliation with McMaster. The non-affiliation is a logical inference - but there was no actual source for it - so I'm fine leaving it out. I just wanted to clear up your misapprehension of bias. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "handwaving" but your suggestion doesn't appear valid looking up the definition since nothing was being "glossed over".[1]

Requesting some article expansion help

Greetings,

You seem to have previously contributed to the article Christianity and Islam.

Requesting your visit to Draft:Intellectual discourse over re-mosqueing of Hagia Sophia and article expansion help if you find you interest in the topic.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 11:50, 24 November 2021 (UTC)