User talk:Ameture Historian
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April 2024
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Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Amber McLaughlin, you may be blocked from editing. EvergreenFir (talk) 02:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- A simple question. Who is the judge and jury here? Must we all think lockstep? Who arbitrates free speech and thoughts? I felt I made valid points and spoke the truth. Hardly vandalism as you call it. Vandalism is the permanent alteration of or destruction of a physical item. Such as breaking a statue. Throwing paint on the Mona Lisa, or tagging the wall of a building without permission. Offering a different opinion, stating facts, is not vandalism.
- FREE SPEECH is for everyone Ameture Historian (talk) 03:39, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not a public forum and does not have WP:FREESPEECH. No government is limiting your speech here. This is not the place to disruptively make a point or right some great wrong you perceive. We do not engage in our own analyses, we reflect what reliable sources say about a topic. We adhere to community-determined guidelines and users who violate those guidelines repeatedly are blocked in order to protect the encyclopedia. Your edits are at minimum disruptive and appear to be in bad faith, hence the vandalism label (thankfully no edits on here are permanent). In addition to the names and pronouns and the introduction of factual errors, you misused the Minor Edit feature and provided a misleaded edit summary.
- The specific guidelines you should read are MOS:GENDERID and WP:BLP. EvergreenFir (talk) 04:03, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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