User talk:Glenn Oliver

March 2012

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Hi,

Please provide me with the text which you removed so that I can re-post it with appropriate citations added.

Thank you, Glenn

Glenn Oliver (talk) 21:43, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

You have not yet had the courtesy to reply to my request.

Please provide me with the text which you removed so that I can re-post it with appropriate citations added.

Thank you, Glenn

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Tonsillolith. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Logical Cowboy (talk) 21:35, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I did not make any sort of assertion or claim which required verification.

I said -

"There is considerable anecdotal evidence that high levels of consumption of dairy products contributes to tonsillar stone formation, and that reduction in dairy consumption decreases the incidence of tonsillar stones.

At present, no formal medical studies have been conducted to test the validity of this conjecture."

If you wish I can cite some of the dozens of Internet discussion groups in which this ANECDOTAL evidence is presented.

Including the WikiProject Medicine talk on this subject -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ATonsillolith

If I had stated that dairy products cause tonsilloliths then I would agree with you that verifiable reliable sources would have to be cited.

But I did not make any such statement of fact, quite the opposite I made clear that there is not yet any formal research to support (or refute) the conjecture.

Thank you for your comments. I encourage you to read WP:NOTESSAY and WP:RS. The Talk page of an article is not a reliable source for that article. Logical Cowboy (talk) 22:28, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the WP: links, which I have read and will think about.

The existing section -

       Irrigation

- states without any citing of reliable sources, or indeed any sources at all, that -

      A simple yet effective method to remove tonsil stones and thoroughly clean the tonsil crypts is to use an oral irrigator.

This is apparently OK by you, but adding in a line to say that vigorous gargling with warm, salty water achieves the same result apparently isn't.

Is there any reason for this?

I warmly encourage you to add a WP:RS reliable source for that information. Logical Cowboy (talk) 22:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

delete duplicate post

Statistics for General Elections

Hello,

The citing of statistics for General Elections is inconsistent and sometimes plain wrong.

I have just fixed an obvious error on this page -

LINK

- but more generally, the statistics e.g. for % of votes won, are inconsistent between pages and even on the same page.

Glenn

Your request for undeletion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Dolma Lhakang.

The userfied page is at User:Glenn Oliver/Dolma Lhakang. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for arranging the undelete.

I have requested further information from the group which funds and helps to run Dolma Lhakang, and will update the page once I receive their comments.

Glenn

First and only warning: disruptive editing

Care to explain this? Specifically, why you used a false edit summary to hide:

Insertion of false information (Bone's majority is 32.5%)
Needless changes
Bad piping of links
Outright removal of content with no explanation
Changing external links so they display incorrectly
Using POV language in Wikipedia's voice
Introducing deliberate grammatical errors
Introducing deliberate link errors
Meddling with the citation style
Introducing typos
Introducing non-existent templates
Meddling with categories

That's quite a rap sheet. If you try that again I'll make sure you get an indefinite block. IgnorantArmies (talk) 11:14, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@JRPG: FYI. IgnorantArmies (talk) 11:17, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why you have directed such an ill-mannered and inaccurate post towards me.

The edit I did this week to the Peter Bone page was exactly what I said -

"Removed (sic) after the verbs "amend" and "enable"; the editor who added that term in each place had not understood that the third-person singular of the present subjunctive is (correctly) being deployed.)"

- and nothing else.

I have not done any of the malicious edits which you attribute to me.

If you were to stop and check before flying off the handle, you would find that ALL of my edits are invariably constructive.

And then you might consider carefully whether I actually have suddenly acted completely out of character as you accuse.

The above response is from GlennOliver.

P.S. I see that you have also made the false accusation of disruptive editing on the revision history of the Peter Bone page -

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Bone&action=history

I would be obliged if you would also correct your mistaken attribution there.

Glenn Oliver (talk) 16:29, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellastone

The page on Ellastone appears to have had the following non-factual text added -

" ...and Princestone (after the great Prince James who fought in the battle of Ashbourne (1066) against the marauding Bainbridge hoardes of the Northern territories.) "

I suspect that "James" (and possibly "Prince") and "Bainbridge" refer to contemporary locals who compete in the Ashbourne Shrovetide football.

The only Battle of Ashbourne on record occurred in 1916, at the Ashbourne Co. Meath and not in "1066" at the Ashbourne in Derbyshire which is adjacent to Ellastone.

Glenn Oliver (talk) 13:18, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

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Hello Haoreima,

I left a message on your talk page but cannot find any reply from you.

Please would you reply to it?

Glenn_Oliver Glenn Oliver (talk) 18:06, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nor can I now find the message on your talk page? Glenn Oliver (talk) 18:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]