User talk:Corker1

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Your edit to Benjamin Banneker

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Benjamin Banneker, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. ——Mr. E. Sánchez ^{Wanna know my story?}/ _{Share yours with me!} 01:20, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Many edits

Your many individual edits via "Save page" overwhelm the history page of an article. See for example the history of Jeffereson Pier. Please use "Show preview" for each individual edit until you are satisfied with the result of all your edits. Only then should you click "Save page". — Joe Kress (talk) 23:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikilinks

Hi. I notice the work that you've put into articles like History of Washington, D.C., and would like to thank you for your help in improving the page. However, it appears that the article suffers from over linking. I would invite you to take a look at WP:OVERLINK, which describes what words should actually be linked. Best, epicAdam (talk) 20:49, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Washington, D.C.

Hi. I would like to discuss with you the reasons that I have reverted your edits to Washington, D.C. I have also left a message on the talk page that outlines my reasoning. Please respond there first before we continue to make and undo each others edits. Best, epicAdam (talk) 21:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi. As for the edits to image captions, I outlined my reasoning at Talk:Washington, D.C.#The L'Enfant Plan. The Library of Congress credits L'Enfant for the plan. I feel that crediting Ellicott for the engraving is adequate but not for the plan itself, since it wasn't his idea. According to the National Park Service, Ellicott made very superficial changes to the plan. The overall idea of the traffic circles with the National Mall in the center is very much L'Enfant's plan, to say otherwise is certainly misleading. Further, during the article's FA process it was decided by the editors that information about the design of the City of Washington would be placed under the "Cityscape" section, which is where it is mentioned. Ellicott's role in the final design is mentioned in the footnote. I wouldn't really be opposed to moving that information into the main article text, if necessary. Best, epicAdam (talk) 22:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Just a note about talk pages: You can just respond on your own talk page, it's not necessary to go back and forth if you don't want to. And superficial was the wrong word choice. You're absolutely correct that L'Enfant bristled at the changes that were being made, it's exactly for that reason that Washington let him go; L'Enfant wanted to micro manage every aspect of the city's construction. Despite the changes made to straighten the roads, in the grand totality of it all, the city's design still is credited to L'Enfant. It is for that reason that I object to the engraving, the "Plan of the City of Washington", being credited to Andrew Ellicott only. It may have been his drawing, but not totally his plan. The Library of Congress' collection does not credit that drawing to Ellicott and I am hesitant to credit him in the caption. Best, epicAdam (talk) 22:49, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I thought I'd take a minute to step back a little from the Wikipedia jargon and explain why some of us are so insistent about the caption for the 1792 plan for Washington, DC. The short of it is that everything that's in Wikipedia has to be verifiable information derived from a source deemed reliable by Wikipedia standards. One's own opinions and points of view, no matter how sensible or well founded, aren't properly included in the encyclopedia. See WP:OR for more on that. It's your view that the 1792 plan is most fairly described as Ellicott's plan, not L'Enfant's, and you've been captioning it as such in Washington, D.C. and other articles. There are two problems with that. The first - actually not really relevant here - is that it just makes no sense to give full credit to Ellicott when his plan so clearly proceeded from L'Enfant's original conception. The second problem, and the one that matters for the encyclopedia, is that all of the sources that discuss that engraving describe it as "L'Enfant's plan". Some - most? - acknowledge Ellicott's role and adjustments to the plan, but *none* of them call it "Ellicott's plan", to the exclusion of L'Enfant. As best I can tell, that characterization is entirely yours, and is not based on any reliable source at all. In fact it is contradicted by the sources. For those reasons the caption as you'd like to have it really can't stand, and after looking at the discussion, I think almost all editors would agree with me.

Does this help at all? JohnInDC (talk) 04:26, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Reply to WikiLinks and Washington, D.C.

Please restore my edits. If you believe that there are too many links, feel free to remove those that you believe to be excessive or redundant.

You stated that Ellicott's changes to L'Enfant's Plan were "very superficial". L'Enfant himself considered them to be far more important. His letters strenuously objected to the changes in his plan that Ellicott had made after L'Enfant had offered his letter of resignation to George Washington.

L'Enfant believed that lines of sight should be limited. His plan therefore offset some streets around plazas and elsewhere so that people would see buildings, creating a neighborhood effect. Ellicott (perhaps because he was a surveyor) preferred distant views. He therefore straightened Massachusetts Avenue and removed some of L'Enfant's plazas.

The books the the History of Washington, D.C. Wikipedia article references describe much of the above. L'Enfant's letters are consitent with this.

Perhaps one of the most significant changes that Elllicott made to L'Enfant's Plan was to radically change to shape of the present Judiciary Square area. L'Enfant's plan provided for a curved south border of the area, which L'Enfant expected would contain the Supreme Court. Ellicott eliminate the curve to produce plaza with straight sides. The current position of Indiana Avenue NW between Pennsylvania Avenue and Judiciary Square reflects this change. The Judiciary Square area would look very different if Ellicott had not made this change. Corker1 (talk) 22:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I have recently found a copy of a letter that Ellicott wrote that suggests that Ellicott himself considered that his plan was his own (and that of his brother), rather than a revision to L'Enfant's plan. His letter states:

"Philadelphia, Feby 23, 1792

Gentlemen,

On my arrival at this City, I found that no preparation was made for an engraving of the plan of the City of Washington. Upon this representation being made to the President and Secretary of State, I was directed to furnish one for an engraver, which with the aid of my Brother, was completed last Monday and handed to the President.

In this business we met with difficulties of a very serious nature. Major L'Enfant refused us the use of the original! What his motives were, God knows. - The plan which we have furnished, I believe will be found to answer the ground better than the large one in the Major's hands. … ".

(Reference: Ellicott's letter to the commissioners on engraving the plan of the city … in Bob Arnebeck's Web Pages Accessed February 5, 2009.) Corker1 (talk) 01:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

August 2008

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edit(s) to Washington, D.C., it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 00:30, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Steve Fossett

FYI, I reverted a recent edit you made to the lead section of Steve Fossett. It was accurate and supported by the references, but it didn't seem to follow the guideline for an article lead section (WP:LEAD), specifically regarding conciseness. There is a section further down in the article where such detail would be more appropriate.

I appreciate your contribution and I hope you continue to help keep the quality of this article at its current high standard and help improve the overall quality of Wikipedia. Thank you. —Danorton (talk) 19:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Ben Banneker Valued Picture Nomination?

Hi. I noticed you removed the Ben Bannaker nom. First off, thanks for spotting the misinformation. However, if it's so incorrect, why is it still on the article? Just a thought. Also, I restored the text of the nomination and put it back on the VPC page so it can be closed the correct way - that should be done in the next few days. Finally, thanks for all your hard work on the wiki! :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

The misinformation is in the "Mythology of Benjamin Banneker" section of the Wikipedia article about Banneker. The "Mythology" section explains the reasons that some of the text in the Charles Alston cartoon is misinformation. Please also note that the Charles Alston cartoon was a Wikipedia Featured Picture Candidate (FPC) in April and May 2008, but was not promoted to FP (See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Benjamin Banneker). Corker1 (talk) 21:34, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Gutenberg Book Hot Link

I have opened a new section on Silvio Bedini's discussion page regarding your unjustified reversion. Darrell_Greenwood (talk) 21:16, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

• Darrell Greewood: The link that you added to the text duplicated a link that was already in the reference section. Wikipedia articles should not contain redundant links. Additionally, Wikipedia articles should not contain external links within the text. Such external links distract readers, especially those that are not interested in the specific link. For that reason, I removed the external link that you added to the text.Corker1 (talk) 20:06, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

VPC

— raekyT 00:24, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Re:

I'm not going to make a separate disambig when the primary topic is a single line article that's barely more than a dictionary definition. —Xezbeth (talk) 06:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Peer review of the national mall article

I just noticed your submission of the National mall article for peer review. I added some general comments but the article still need quite a lot of work before I can identify specifics. I hope this helps though and please let me know if you have any questions. --Kumioko (talk) 20:30, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

David Stuart

Your improvements to this article look good. My only question is where you got the information that he and his wife had 16 children? The source I found mentioned only "5 daughters and 2 sons". Now, that might very well have been only the ones that survived to be adults, but I couldn't find any other number. Brianyoumans (talk) 16:19, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

See the following reference: Johnson, R. Winder (1905). The Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson: Daughter of George Calvert Morris and Elizabeth Kuhn, his wife. Ferris & Leach. This is presently reference number 1 in David Stuart. The reference states on page 30 that the Stuarts' children were "said to be sixteen in number". Other sources also provide this information. A direct quote from a letter that one of Eleanor Stuart's daughters wrote states that Eleanor Stuart had borne twenty children. The twenty children included the four children that Mrs. Stuart had with her first husband, John Parke Custis. Corker1 (talk) 22:43, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks again for the improvements to the article. Brianyoumans (talk) 21:00, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

MLK Memorial

Dear Corker1, I admire your work on the page for the Martin Luther King, Jr National Memorial - which I worked on as well - but wanted to mention that unless I am wrong leads do not need references if the information is included and referenced in the text of the page. I see you've added references and referred to the statements as "undocumented," but (again, unless I'm wrong), I don't think that's necessary. (I did make sure all the facts in the lead were included and referenced in the article.) Do you think my understanding is wrong? Best wishes - and by the way, I visited the memorial and it is very, very impressive. NearTheZoo (talk) 22:14, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Found the answer to my own question:" The necessity for citations in a lead should be determined on a case-by-case basis by editorial consensus. Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations; others, few or none. The presence of citations in the introduction is neither required in every article nor prohibited in any article." (Quote from the wikipedia manual of style). Best wishes, NearTheZoo (talk) 22:18, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Corker!

Hi Corker1! Just wanted to stop by and say "thanks" for your contributions - I've noticed some of your DC related contributions, and it's really appreciated! On that note, if you are ever interested in meeting up with fellow DC area Wikipedians offline, we do have a DC Meetup Invite List which you can sign and then we'll let you know when we have edit-a-thons, meetups, and other cool events (including museum tours, etc). Just wanted to throw that out there in case you had interest (no pressure, of course). We also have a local chapter, which might interest you also: Wikimedia DC. Feel free to drop by my talk page if I can ever help you out with anything. SarahStierch (talk) 22:47, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I appreciate what you have done for the Benjamin Banneker page. You are doing a great job keeping the site clean.

Ghhinerm (talk) 13:56, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Washington and Old Dominion Railway

Please stop. Continuing to revert edits will be considered vandalism as well as WP:own. Further edits of this type may result in your being blocked from editing Wikipedia. The article is excessive in its WP:LENGTH, resulting in significant Wikipedia:Content forking.Oanabay04 (talk) 02:08, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

National Mall border

I've added a discussion topic on the talk page of the National Mall. If you'd like to discuss it further, feel free. McKay (talk) 13:27, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I responded to your comments on the talk:National Mall page. McKay (talk) 20:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

WP:CITEVAR

Please stop changing citation style at Deep TMS. You have two choices there: go back to the non-citation used by the first editor who created the article, or respect the citation style I established. But you may not change the citation style without consensus, and I do not enjoy working with a flawed citation style (the cite doi template). You can generate citations for the style in the article by entering a PubMed indentifier (PMID) into this template, which generates the style used on most medical articles on Wikipedia. Other than that, thank you so much for the article improvements !! Regards, SandyGeorgien (Talk) 00:29, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

YOu have for the third time changed citation style without consensus, and without discussing your edits. Please review WP:3RR and understand that you can be blocked for disruptive editing if you persist. SandyGeorgien (Talk) 01:28, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

User:SandyGeorgia suggested that I use the pmid template for the citation style in Deep TMS. I did this. Please enter any further comments on this topic into the talk page for Deep TMS to help form a consensus. Corker1 (talk) 02:16, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

No, I am user SandyGeorgia, and I did not suggest that. Please stop changing the citation style without consensus. SandyGeorgien (Talk) 02:29, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Please stop posting to my user page (User:SandyGeorgia); for that, we use talk pages. I have your talk page watchlisted and will respond here. Almost every medical article on Wikipedia uses the citation style that you are altering. Regardless, if you continue changing citation style without consensus, you could be blocked. The options are the original, incomplete, non-citation (manual) style used by the first author, or the style I converted it to when I completed the incomplete citations. Stop introducing the cite doi and cite pmid templates. SandyGeorgien (Talk) 03:26, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

User:Corker1: I came here to help but I don't see how to say it more clearly than SG has. I looked at the Deep TMS page, its talk page, and both of yours, and I see no evidence that SG ever suggested changing the citation style midstream. Just stick with the one that's being used, as long as there is no consensus to change it. -- Scray (talk) 03:30, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Citation templates

Please stop altering citation templates; that just creates work as a citation bot has to alter them back. [1] SandyGeorgien (Talk) 22:27, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

National Mall

Please don't "stuff" articles with images which don't add anything. Your addition of the "shutdown" image was worthwhile, but this latest addition was not, and just unnecessarily crowded the article, which has plenty of images already. I have reverted it.BMK (talk) 03:59, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

• I added the new image (National Mall in 1999) to the History section to show a comparison of views of the Mall looking east from the top of the Washington Monument towards the U.S. Capitol in 1901 and 1999. The two images show the changes in the Mall that resulted from implementation of the McMillan Plan (which is between the 1901 and 1999 images. Corker1 (talk) 04:10, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar of diligence

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		In appreciation of all the persistent and meticulous work you put into many of our articles on history and transportation. Samsara 19:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thank you for your improvements to the Monarch butterfly article.   Bfpage |leave a message  19:02, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Just Like A (rpa)

Whether you like it or not, you can use all the semantics in the world, it still can't take away from Benjamin Banneker accomplishments. Go and cry to someone who's willing to listen to rant! Uriel Lavi (talk) 00:04, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Rewriting History

Anyone who knew Benjamin Banneker understands his accomplishments! No matter what semantics is used to discredit him, he will always be noted as a man affiliated with the mapping of Washington, D.C. Uriel Lavi (talk) 00:14, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• Benjamin Banneker had a number of well-documented accomplishments, including the authorship of a series of almanacs, the creation of mathematical puzzles and the predictions of eclipses. However, historical researchers have been unable to find any verifiable sources that support the idea that Banneker had any involvement in the mapping of Washington, D.C., except for his three-month assistance in Andrew Ellicott's two-year survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia. (See Mythology and legacy of Benjamin Banneker for information and citations relevant to this point.) Corker1 (talk) 16:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Gutenberg/World Heritage References at Bushrod Washington

Apologies if the edit summary was not self-evident.

• The article at Gutenberg here is a mirror of content at World Heritage, including the license and link to the source at Wikipedia (the line labeled "make contributions at the Citational Source" at the top of the page).
• The article at World Heritage here is a mirror of content here as noted in the same link and credit at the bottom of the page.
• Both versions are identical to the Wikipedia article before you began improving it in November.

If you feel there is some mistake, please let me know. This has been covered many times before, and World Heritage is a known mirror - they've just done a very poor job of making that clear and abiding by the CC license. Kuru (talk) 20:55, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for your comments on my edits to Bushrod Washington. Before reading your comments, I had not recognized that the citational source for the Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press article on Bushrod Washington is actually the Wikipedia article on that subject. As you stated, the Gutenberg article's original source is quite obscure. I have therefore removed the information in the Wikipedia article that the Gutenberg article contains except where I was able to find one or more sources that I consider to be reliable. Corker1 (talk) 01:14, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Your edits to Washington Redskins name controversy

While I appreciate any edits to this article, the recent effort to bring it to Good Article status mainly involved the reduction of detail that had made it almost 300k, difficult to read and edit. Since I had added most of that detail, it was only during the collaboration on the Good Article review that I came to appreciate the validity of Wikipedia:Summary style and splitting off of sub-topics into their own articles and only including essential content in the main article. It remains a large article at 100k, and the Arlington County and DC resolutions were part of the previous content that was moved to List of Washington Redskins name change advocates. Therefore I have removed the content from the main article again. I have also removed the detail added to the Controversy section regarding the Oneida Nation of New York. The wikilink to the Oneida article provides even more detail regarding the tribe's demographics and sources of income. If such additions continued, the article would soon return to its previous bloated state. FriendlyFred (talk) 03:39, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

please don't unnecessarily rewrite article's references, it erodes the utility of diffs

Please don't unnecessarily rewrite article's references, as you did at Libby Garvey. Doing so erodes the utility of diffs.

There is a principle, in engineering, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

I like putting every field of a {{cite}} template on a line of its own. But, when I see something to be fixed in a {{cite}} template someone else wrote, I fix the template without converting it to my preferred form, if that is possible, so I don't erode the utility of diffs. Please follow my example. Geo Swan (talk) 15:56, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from L'Enfant Plan into History of Washington, D.C.. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:20, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Bullet points

Hello. I noticed you using bullet points for some of your comments while cleaning up Talk:Benjamin Banneker - WP:THREAD discourages mixing bullet points with regular indentation. Bullets are usually only used for polls and RFCs. --McGeddon (talk) 22:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia)

Thanks for all your work expanding the article! JohnPomeranz (talk) 14:59, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Blog comments

Good work on the "Marshall House plaque" in various articles. One quibble though - blog comments are not adequate sources for an article. [2] Please see WP:SELFPUBLISH, which says:

Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book, and also claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published media, or user generated sources, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs (as distinguished from newsblogs, above), content farms, Internet forum postings, and social media postings, are largely not acceptable as sources. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications.

In this case, a blog comment calling for a boycott is not really significant enough to merit inclusion. If it were, imagine all the things that'd end up in Wikipedia! Mobi Ditch (talk) 19:54, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

I looked into Meg Groeling's background, and I'd say that her own work is OK, even when published in a blog, because she is a recognized expert, having been published by established publishers.[3] It's just the comments in response to her blog that don't qualify. If the calls for a boycott are reported in a reliable source then that'd be OK. Mobi Ditch (talk) 03:38, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Synthesis?

Hi Corker,

I just saw this edit and noticed that the sentence could be read to imply that Banneker influenced the Declaration of Independence. If there is a source supporting that view, then I think it should be more clearly stated. Otherwise, giving this impression should be avoided per WP:SYNTH.

With the most profound respect,

Samsara 10:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Samsara: My edit restored the words drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence that another editor had removed from a sentence in the lead section of Benjamin Banneker. The sentence states in regard to Banneker: He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the topics of slavery and racial equality.

The restored words inform readers of Jefferson's most notable accomplishment prior to the dates of the correspondence. Because the sentence is in the article's lead, the sentence does not provide the date of Jefferson's draft or the dates of any of the referenced correspondence.

This is consistent with the wording of all other sentences in the lead. The lead serves as an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents. The lead gives the basics in a nutshell and cultivates interest in reading on. Lead sections therefore need to be concise (see MOS:LEAD).

While some readers may consider that the sentence implies that this correspondence occurred around the time that Jefferson was drafting the Declaration, the lead should encourage many to read the section entitled Correspondence with Thomas Jefferson to obtain more information about the subject. The first sentence of that section states: On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State. The readers will then recognize that Banneker could not have influenced the Declaration of Independence.

If you have any further suggestions or comments about this matter, please respond to the above. Corker1 (talk) 23:07, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

I believe the sentence is misleading as Jefferson was not the drafter of the constitution at the time of the correspondence. As you rightly say, that process had been completed. Samsara 00:21, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

@Samsara: I have disambiguated the sentence in response to your comments. The sentence now states: He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, who had earlier drafted the United States Declaration of Independence, on the topics of slavery and racial equality.

Thank you for your comments. Corker1 (talk) 05:59, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

National Mall

As requested, I have added my reasoning to my edits to the National Mall talk page. I will not be touching this page and leave it as you want it. Blazing Liberty (talk) 12:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

self-closed tags

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your work on Benjamin Banneker, you are sometimes closing HTML tags with the slash at the beginning rather than the end. The closing tag for <sup> is </sup>, with the slash at the beginning, not the end. When the slash is at the end, it's called a self-closed tag. Some tags can be self-closed, and the most common example is <ref name="blah" />, which is used when <ref name="blah"> is already defined somewhere else in the article, and you want to use it and close it in one step. Otherwise, you would have to use the more cumbersome <ref name="blah"></ref>. —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:07, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution (2nd request)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from National Mall into Dutch elm disease. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:10, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

@Diannaa (talk) Thank you for your messages on this subject. I was the sole author of the prose that I copied in the two instances that you have cited. Corker1 (talk) 20:09, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Onetwothreeip

Are you intending to report this user for his uncollaborative attitude? After reviewing his pattern of edits in several topics, I think his behavior is unlikely to improve, and something needs to be done about it before he wastes any more of other people's time. 2600:1004:B108:1795:3044:8CE2:9571:D868 (talk) 01:53, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

@JalenFolf: @BullRangifer: Please review all of the comments on Onetwothreeip's user page. You will find that Onetwothreeip splits articles without seeking or acheiving consensus or notifying previous editors, creates orphan articles, removes links to references in a manner that makes it impossible for others to access original sources and refuses to cooperate with other editors to correct the damage that Onetwothreeip has done to Wikipedia.

Please also read the recent history of Onetwothreeip's user page. Onetwothreeip has recently removed comments that I have made on that page without notifying me or performing an "undo" action, which would automatically notify me of these actions. Onetwothreeip may have previously performed such actions earlier in response to other critical comments that editors have placed on Onetwothreeip's user page.

Because of this repeated pattern of non-cooperativeness and deception, Onetwothreeip's actions need to be reported to Wikipedia's administrators for appropriate corrective action. If you wish to report Onetwothreeip's actions to the administrators, please proceed.

It would be best if more than one editor reports Onetwothreeip's misuse of Wikipedia. Please therefore inform me of any action that you may take. I will follow-up with a similar action.

Thank you. Corker1 (talk) 06:21, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

2600:1004:B108:1795:3044:8CE2:9571:D868: Please see above. If you concur, you can initiate the process by informing Wikipedia's administrators of Onetwothreeip's actions.

Thank you. Corker1 (talk) 06:34, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

The correct place to make such a report would be Wikipedia:AN or Wikipedia:ANI, with diffs showing his pattern of behavior. I agree that this needs to be done, but I'm the wrong person to do it. It should be done by an experienced Wikipedian, not by an unregistered user. 2600:1004:B108:1795:3044:8CE2:9571:D868 (talk) 06:52, 22 December 2019 (UTC)