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Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

1. Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
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Will explain how to add a reference. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:44, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Got your message and their doesn't seem to be a problem.Djflem (talk) 12:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to have been resolved Doriden (talk) 18:42, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Doriden, checkout who's back vandalizing articles again: Special:Contributions/172.58.188.128 --McChizzle (talk) 23:10, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Report him Immediately to the administration and revert back all his nonsense. If the ip address is Florida its him. Oshawa was one that banned him before. Let me check his name the administrator. Doriden (talk)

OK, this ip address is out of Maryland. I am currently recovering from a bout with Covid. The 2 administrators that I contacted last time and they blocked him. One is Wugapodes and the other one is Oshwah. Leave a message on their talk page. I looked at some of the edits and they are pretty much useless. Also contact his talk page and tell him that if he doesn't stop he will be blocked. Thank you for letting me know Doriden (talk) 23:48, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you are reverting some of his work. Last time I saw to it by contacting Wugapodes and Oshwah and the ip address that he was using last time is blocked for a year. It's better that more than one person is complaining about him. I already left messages on Wugapodes and Oshwah talk pages. That's how I got him blocked, but it's better than just me complaining, you know what I mean? OK thanks, Doriden (talk) 01:27, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm FlightTime. Please refrain from changing genres, as you did to George Thorogood even if you provide a/some source(s), you'll still need to start a discussion on the article talk page to allow editors who regular watch that page a chance to discuss the reliability of the source(s) you provided. One reason is, genre sources can easily be considered an opinion and not fact. Genre's are a touchy subject here on Wikipedia and without discussion/consensus, regardless of your source(s), your addition or removal will most likely be reverted. Your edit has been reverted and archived in the page history for now.

Thank you. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:06, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've already replied to your request about this in a couple of places. I've gotten more information since then. Here's what I've got:

"@Doriden -- That user commented on my "Unimpeachable" edit: "Impeached ;-) Park page is incorrect. It is not close to largest lake in Essex County. A couple, if not more, are larger, eg: https://www.lake-link.com/new-jersey-lakes/essex/canoe-brook-reservoir-number-one/325521"

---OK, that's an anthropogenic lake and it is named a reservoir, unlike Weequahic Lake. But Weequahic Lake is also anthropogenic, so the editor has it accurately in my view. Perhaps Weequahic Lake is the largest "Lake" not the largest lake, but that does not seem notable enough to make the distinction. Regretfully as a former Park neighbor, I must thank the editor for their correction." & I did thank him.

I have since come up with additional information which I likewise addressed to you. "@Doriden Weequahic Lake is anthropogenic, so what makes it different from a reservoir? They are both anthropogenic lakes. Weequahic Lake is by no means the largest anthropogenic lake in Essex County. The Olmsted Brothers' report and proposal describes it as mostly a marsh; see their Landscape Architects' Report."

With all this, I am in no way willing to accept that Weequahic Lake is the largest lake in Essex County. I hope you (1) are willing to read this, (2) accept it, and (3) stop engaging in groundless edit warring over it. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 23:53, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Doriden -- Please stop your edit warring about Weequahic Lake and confine your concerns for the time being to the Talk pages of the respective articles. After initially agreeing with you, I have found that Weequahic Park Lake, for all its having "Lake" in its name, is no different from a reservoir, as they are all anthropogenic. I have found citations to this effect.

Your citation at NewarkHistory.com states: "At 80 acres, Weequahic Lake is the largest lake in Essex County. Weequahic Lake is natural, but it has been enlarged by a dam." The citation from the Olmsted Brothers' Landscape Architects' Report (1899) makes it perfectly clear that it was a marsh. NewarkHistory.com does not provide a basis for their assertion, "Weequahic Lake is natural." The Olmsteds, who designed the park, were there, and we should take their word for it.

It is disappointing that you refuse to engage on this besides edit warring. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 04:00, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Who's edit warring? I have since forgotten all about it. Doriden (talk) 05:25, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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