User talk:Andrew Swallow

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Help:Citation tools has some handy DOI or PMID generators. Cheers Mion (talk) 21:26, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Merger discussion for [[Criminal Behaviour Order>]]

An article that you have been involved in editing—[[Criminal Behaviour Order>]]—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please follow the (Discuss) link at the top of the article to participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. WPCW (talk) 11:45, 16 May 2018 (UTC) |

Merger proposal

I propose that Criminal Behaviour Order be merged into Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Reason: Currently, the Criminal Behaviour Order article is a stub and the content may be better merged into the article Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Additionally, I would suggest that a Criminal Behaviour Order Page be redirected to Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Message left on the talk page of the existing contributing members. WPCW (talk) 11:30, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Vote No. I created the Criminal Behaviour Order page because they replace ASBOs, which have their own Wikipedia page, and nothing was returned when searching the internet. This page definitely needs several sections adding, starting with examples and reports on success rate. --Andrew Swallow (talk) 16:03, 16 May 2018 (UTC)--Andrew Swallow (talk) 16:03, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

I accept the Criminal Behaviour Orders have replaced ASBOs and are likely to be as equally important (maybe controversial) in the future. I agree Wiki does need a page covering them. My opinion is that the Criminal Behaviour Order page could be used as a redivert page at this time.At the moment work has been ongoing to improve coverage of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. It might make it easier for readers to understand the Act and the elements it contains if we merged the text from Criminal Behaviour Order to ASBSPA 2014 whilst the subject is being developed. Discussions are ongoing if to do something similar with the Public Space Protection Order article. Nothing is permanent on Wiki, and in the future the potential exists to split the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 article if it becomes too big or confusing. Please let me know your thought. Regards, WPCW (talk) 21:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

It is easy to copy two paragraphs. However after about 3 years I would have expected someone to have said something interesting about CBOs. Possibly published some success/failure information. --Andrew Swallow (talk) 23:31, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

@Andrew Swallow: Hello, I am eager to develop the article Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, and have worked on it. Two section cannot be included as they already have pages, Criminal Behaviour Order and Public Space Protection Order. The 2014 Act is very important as it is the central plank of the UK's anti-social behaviour legislation. My academic side places greater importance on extending the material on the Criminal Behaviour Order and Public Space Protection Order rather than where the articles should be placed. As a newbie at Wiki, I feel quite lonely as nobody is talking to me on the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 or Public Protection Order pages! Please could I ask your advice as you appear to have been editing for sometime? I am willing to accept your decision about keepingCriminal Behaviour Order also Public Space Protection Orderif you feel it is a good idea. If you have time would you mind looking at Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 and provide your advice about the best way forward for the articles. They both have merge requests on and I am unsure if it is the best option. If your advice is not to merge, do you know if I am allowed to simply remove the merge proposals. Kind Regards, WPCW (talk) 20:15, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Have a look at the sections on the three companies in the Lunar CATALYST Wiki page. Each company has both its own Wiki page and a short section on the Lunar CATALYST page. They are linked using the template:Main e.g. {{main |Astrobotic Technology}} giving

Main article: Astrobotic Technology

--Andrew Swallow (talk) 21:10, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

You did not use the TfM template so the automatic merger system has not been started. So you can presumably just vote NO and just close this section down. --Andrew Swallow (talk) 21:18, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I think we are in agreement to close this proposal and we will keep the current page WPCW (talk) 22:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)>}}

July 2018

Your recent edits to Britain First could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 17:40, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Britain First, you may be blocked from editing. bonadea contributions talk 17:50, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Talk pages

Please review WP:TPG. You should post talk on the talk page, not someone else's user page. If you want, start a discussion at Talk:Britain First, but be prepared to cite reliable sources. Britain First is not very reliable, in case you were wondering. Grayfell (talk) 18:38, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

A misunderstanding

Hi, Andrew Swallow. Your comment on Bonadea's userpage shows a misunderstanding of the kind of information Wikipedia can use about a political party. You say: "They refute the allegation that they are a Fascist organisation. They even say so on their website." Yes, but we can't use what political parties say about themselves, because they all say such lovely things; they're all biased in their own favour. For a neutral article, we can only use what reliable secondary sources say about them. That applies to all parties and similar organisations. Therefore, please stop changing "Fascism" and "Fascist", which is what reliable secondary sources call BF, to ""Democracy" and "Democratic Movement", which BF themselves say. (Also, seriously, no, they don't "refute" it. They deny it. It's not the same thing.)

Oh, hey, I see BF canvass their supporters on their front page and ask them to complain and "DEMAND WIKIPEDIA STOPS CALLING BRITAIN FIRST 'FASCIST'". Interesting. Is that the call you're responding to? Bishonen | talk 19:32, 24 July 2018 (UTC).

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September 2019

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for making legal threats or taking legal action.

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Andrew Swallow (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I have not made a legal threat and I am not taking legal action. What I have done is warn people not to tap dance in a legal minefield. If you want to quote rules try Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

Decline reason:

You have clearly used the threat of libel law to produce a chilling effect. This is inappropriate. Until we are sure you'll make no further such threats, it would be inappropriate to unblock you. Yamla (talk) 23:19, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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I've changed the block from indefinite to 3 days + the 2 days its already been inforced. I would advise Andrew to read the Wikipedia:No legal threats policy carefully. Wikipeidia takes a harsh view on legal threats and even a warning of a potential legal risk is interpreted as a legal threat. Future use of any legal threat will result in a longer block.--Salix alba (talk): 15:59, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

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