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what is your understanding of policies made by the government body?Are these policies "laws" or are they merely a course of action agenda statements? Grotesquetruth (talk) 14:36, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Very much the latter. A policy is not a law; a law is either a piece of primary legislation by a legislature, or secondary legislation made under devolved authority. The execution of a policy may involve these, but it really doesn't have to. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:13, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy tagging

You should not be speedy tagging articles until you have more experience. When you tag an article, you must notify the creator of the article of the tag. You failed to do this when you tagged 2022 WhatsApp Outage.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:40, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am a former editor, although it's been many years and I have forgotten my original username. (I disclose this fact on my user page.) I admit the error, and I appreciate you catching it, but I don't lack experience. GenevieveDEon (talk) 14:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What you say on your userpage is that you edited as an IP, not that you have another account whose name you don't remember. Whichever story is correct - maybe both - there's no way for me to assess how much experience you have.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:20, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You're right; I'd forgotten that I'd expressed myself so cautiously; I've updated it now. And your point is well made. Thank you. GenevieveDEon (talk) 15:23, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Brianna Ghey

Please do not make POV edits on this article, which give false information. Sweet6970 (talk) 13:38, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You yourself have a history of POV pushing on trans-related articles. At the very least, I would request that you bring this to the article's talk page for discussion, and make less misleading edit summaries in future. GenevieveDEon (talk) 13:41, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not have such a history. My edit summary is correct – your version is factually wrong. Sweet6970 (talk) 13:43, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Apology from WeatherWriter

Hey GenevieveDEon. I wanted to apologize for how hot-headed I was yesterday and today. I should have been more patient and I absolutely should not have started the discussion over on the administrators noticeboard. That was done way to fast. I should have worked to discuss the situation more with you before jumping to that. I've actually been told by several editors in the past that I often do get too hot-headed in discussions. I guess you could say I relapsed on the efforts I had done to improve on that.

I truly am sorry for that. I know you are a new editor to Wikipedia, and I really am sorry if I gave you the wrong impression of Wikipedia editors. You are a great editor with a lot of potential. This is a horrible way to meet new editors, but to close my apology, I wanted to say my talk page is open all the time. If you ever have any questions regarding policy or how something should be done, you can always ask me and I will do my best to answer your question or redirect you to someone who can. That said, I am probably the last person you would want to ask for advice, given how I acted towards you.

For all of my attitude and hot-headedness, I am sorry. Have an amazing day and keep up the amazing work on Wikipedia! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 02:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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@GenevieveDEon this twitter post has 1,000 views and it says:

"Attention !!! @Wikipedia editor GenevieveDEon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GenevieveDEon, has flagged Peanut the Squirrel's listing for Deletion !!"

I thought you might want to know because it could be concerning what angry people/Internet trolls might do to your page. Luckily, I think there's an AbuseFilter that stops new users from editing other user's pages. UserMemer (chat) Tribs 23:59, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the warning. I don't think there's much they can do, but this does rather reinforce the point I've been trying to make about the nature of the political storm around Peanut's death. GenevieveDEon (talk) 08:27, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]