संयुक्त अरब अमीरात

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• If you have a question that is not one of the frequently asked questions below, check out the Teahouse, ask me on my talk page, or click the button below. Happy editing and again, welcome! Rasnaboy (talk) 04:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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Previous accounts

Please list the previous accounts you are using or have used at Wikipedia. You are obviously not new user, given your ability to do intricate edits such as addition of new columns in an existing table. The use of multiple accounts is permitted under certain circumstances, but you must be transparent about them and declare them. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:17, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I noticed these 20 edits adding one digit at a time to your sandbox, before blanking it in the last edit. Going for the next level of user privilege, I presume? Mathglot (talk) 03:14, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Look, I'm just here to constructively edit pages in which I feel need improvement. If I made a poor edit, I usually revert it. Please do not try to micromanage me. You have better things to do. I'm not a vandal, to the best of my knowledge and I do my best not to fall in that category. So yes, please focus your energies elsewhere and stop worrying how I edit my sandbox. संयुक्त अरब अमीरात (talk) 14:05, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Also, I used the visual editor to modify the tables. It makes it much easier than it would to manually code all that in. संयुक्त अरब अमीरात (talk) 15:48, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Sourcing

The material you recently added to List of Indian states and union territories by Human Development Index was unsourced; I have removed it. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's WP:Verifiability policy, and guidelines on the use of citations to reliable sources. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:59, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

No worries. संयुक्त अरब अमीरात (talk) 14:08, 26 August 2022 (UTC)