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ill-fated categories and templates and has attempted to circumvent the VfD process in multiple ways. Many editors have become frustrated with the cleanup that his edits necessitate, and while we would like to assume good faith, SamuraiClinton has not attempted to improve his contributions, despite politely-given advice from many different users. In fact, SamuraiClinton often ignores comments left on his user page, or selectively responds only to minor points made in those comments.
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it. But so far he's been completely uncooperative. I doubt he even reads our comments on his talk page. For some reason I can't quite comprehend, contributors like
SamuraiClinton seem to have an immunity to the subtle social pressure that regulates 99% of Knowledge's users. They keep right on editing
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been nice and extremely enthusiastic. I almost hate doing this, but virtually all of my concerns have gone ignored and the bizarre edits, strange articles and unilateral attempts at policy change just keep coming. Agree strongly with
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Let's tread lightly. I'm not aware of an instance where
SamuraiClinton has been rude to another editor. He seems like a nice person who genuinely wants to contribute, but attempts to help him improve his edits have failed. Nearly everything he writes has to be cleaned up in some way, and he's had at
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SamuraiClinton, who alternately signs his VfD/talk edits as GoofyGuy or TheSamurai, creates and edits articles in a very idiosyncratic and sometimes disruptive manner. More often than not, his edits are reverted and his new articles are nominated for deletion or redirected. He has also created many
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been rude or destructive. Furthermore: As the original creator of one of the very articles that is listed in the "Applicable policies" section above, who took matters into my own hands and sat down and wrote it, it would be hypocritical of me to say that taking matters into one's own hands was
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dispute, not different disputes. The persons complaining must provide evidence of their efforts, and each of them must certify it by signing this page with ~~~~. If this does not happen within 48 hours of the creation of this dispute page (which was: 02:38, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)), the page will be
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page. I subsequently added a paragraph on that subject. The problem here wasn't that
SamuraiClinton tried to add this information, but that he created an article without first trying to supplement an existing one. Creating unnecessary objects seems to be at the root of a lot of his problematic
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I have to agree. If I'm ever bored and don't have anything to do at the moment, I know I can find work by going through
Samurai's User Contributions. I would also like to dispute another kind of article not previously covered, and that's articles that are ridiculously vague. Check out
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Please, just let me be a free
Wikipedian. My intentions are at the zenith of being rightful, not bogus. I may have trouble contrasting approved of and bogus contributions, but I should't be in trouble for making bogus contributions. People say that I am also
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As noted above, most of the evidence listed here is merely a representative sample of
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article needed to be split out into various different articles (one for each sequel, one for each video game, etc.) with the main article being a disambiguation page. Rather than try for consensus on the article's talk page, he
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might well be among our very youngest users (although this is apparently belied by the fact that some of xyr contributions appear to me to be written as if from direct personal experience stretching as far back as the 1980s —
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to look at this, and I must say that this summary is something that I can agree with. Older contributors sometimes forget that new energy is a good thing, and sometimes just needs to be guided.
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Just A Friend is a comedic and romantic rap/hip hop song. This song was made a while ago. As of this millennium, some hip-hop musician named Mario (artist) covered this song.
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Back then, I have encountered many loopholes with
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for example). In that case, some sort of supervisory arrangement may be needed, as has happened in similar situations before.
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I changed from GoofyGuy to TheSamurai a while ago. --
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