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November 2013

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  Hello, I'm Hgilbert. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Samuel de Champlain because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. HGilbert (talk) 15:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

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March 2014

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  Hello, I'm EvergreenFir. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Vinegar because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Hydrofluoric acid =/= acetic acid EvergreenFir (talk) 04:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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September 2015

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  Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Barry Seal, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 19:28, 9 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

October 2015

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  Hello, I'm Pinethicket. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Common descent, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Pinethicket (talk) 13:04, 13 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

April 2017

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  Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Banfield Pet Hospital, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:14, 20 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Also, please see Wikipedia:Words to watch#Relative time references. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 03:15, 20 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

November 2017

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  Hello, I'm Jack Frost. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Cosine similarity— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jack Frost (talk) 03:35, 4 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

October 2018

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  Please do not add or change content, as you did at Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. General Ization Talk 21:47, 10 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

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September 2019

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  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at William Lane Craig, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 06:47, 11 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

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January 2020

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Sans (character). Megaman en m (talk) 13:31, 7 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

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October 2023

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  Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Raheem Mostert, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 00:35, 19 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

June 2024

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:44, 10 June 2024 (UTC)Reply