User talk:ZippyGoogle

Walmart additions

The reason that I have continued to revert your edits is because you are simply adding the full text from Sam's Club and Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market back into the main Walmart article. These sections were spun off into their own articles because the main Walmart article is quite long. The guidelines at Wikipedia:Summary style recommend that "sections of long articles should be spun off into their own articles leaving a summary in its place". I'm sorry if you feel that your version makes things better for researchers, but Wikipedia works by consensus, not unilateral decisions. The consensus at the time was to give Sam's Club and Neighborhood Market their own articles, and we should abide by that. If you feel that such a major change should be made, start a discussion on the talk page first. Regards, Gr1st (talk) 23:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Wal-Mart

Show me where you see the support for merging the Sam's Club and Neighborhood Market pages into the Wal-Mart article. Here are a couple quotes from the section on the merger:

The Walmart article is too long as it is. Remember when article size was recommended to be 32kb? its 66 without the entire Sams Club article dumped into it. All the old Sams Club logo's are irrelevant to this page. If people want to read about Sams Club, they can click on Main Article: Sam's Club in the Sams club section

Certainly oppose the merge with Sam's Club - it's a fully-fledged article on a operation distinct from the main Wal-Mart stores.

I see no support for the merger from other users. Sam's Club and Neighborhood Market are distinctly different branches, deserving of their own pages. The Wal-Mart article alone is big enough, it doesn't need more added to it. Please do not re-add the Sam's Club or Neighborhood Market contents, as they make for an insanely long page that would certainly crash most browsers. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Did you even read User:Gr1st's comments at the top of your talk page? He's already told you not to do that and yet you keep doing it. You can't always have things your way on Wikipedia. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 00:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ZippyGoogle, by convention Wikipedia uses a summary style to make articles more readable and cohesive. TenPoundHammer's comment correctly reflects this reasonable style guideline, which I think it would be helpful for you to read before suggesting more regarding this merge. It seems to me that the articles are fine as is; if you really think that the Wal-Mart article is making a substantial omission not covered by the summary style, please then suggest to other editors the nature of the omission so that the article can improve. Make sure to work towards consensus in your edits. Cheers, {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 00:54, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Wal-Mart, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 01:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/ZippyGoogle for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. CastAStone /^{/₵₳$↑₳}^{₴₮ʘ№€} 05:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See closing of case above. Please don't sock again. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Your repeated change of logo for Coca-Cola

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I invite you to participate the discussion I have started on the new logo at Talk:Coca-Cola#New logo?. As noted, if there is a reliable source that mentioned that Coke is changing the beverage's logo, please provide it there. Otherwise, do not change the logo. —C.Fred (talk) 23:35, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at User:Wikigi, you will be blocked from editing. Defacing another user's user page in retribution for an edit you disagree with, which is what this appears to be, is inappropriate. If you want to participate constructively, discuss the change at the talk page mentioned above. —C.Fred (talk) 23:51, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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