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Happy editing! Iwilsonp (talk) 03:23, 26 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

April 2020

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  Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

 
The "show preview" button is right next to the "publish changes" button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. --Killarnee (T12) 15:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

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May 2020

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  Hello, I'm I dream of horses. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Louis de Brézé—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. I dream of horses (t) (c) Remember to {{ping}} me after replying off my talk page 20:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Diane de Poitiers, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 23:03, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Diane de Poitiers, you may be blocked from editing. Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 00:10, 12 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Diane de Poitiers. Materialscientist (talk) 01:22, 12 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

We may not use Wikipedia articles as references, especially cross-Wiki articles. Materialscientist (talk) 01:23, 12 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Chicken War, 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) 05:34, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Strongilah, 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) 05:45, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did with this edit to Strongilah. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 05:58, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Lucrezia Tornabuoni, you may be blocked from editing. Materialscientist (talk) 22:14, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  Hello 190.236.98.183, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Wilhelmina of the Netherlands have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

  • You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
  • Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
  • Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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  • Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DrKay (talk) 07:06, 1 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

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June 13 2020

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters.

June 2020

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  Hello, I'm TheImaCow. I noticed that you recently removed content from List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. 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. TheImaCow (talk) 19:14, 13 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for persistently making disruptive edits.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Ad Orientem (talk) 20:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
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July 2020

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  Hello, I'm Blablubbs. I noticed that you recently removed content from Elizabeth of Russia without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. 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. Blablubbs (talk) 20:51, 5 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. CupcakePerson13 (talk) 05:57, 6 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Diane de France

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Overall I find your recent edits at Diane de France to be disruptive. Please refrain from making further disruptive edits, or you will likely be blocked. --Robert.Allen (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

 
You have been blocked temporarily from editing for continuing to add large blocks of text, as here, without sources, and removing sourced details, as here, without explanation.. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  DrKay (talk) 07:34, 20 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 17:45, 23 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hello! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. You are welcome to edit anonymously; however, creating an account is free and has several benefits (for example, the ability to create pages, upload media and edit without one's IP address being visible to the public).

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Happy editing! Sturdyankit (chat) 03:12, 27 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

July 2020

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  Hello, I'm Sturdyankit. I noticed that you recently removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. 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. Sturdyankit (chat) 03:13, 27 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  Your addition to Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 20:36, 28 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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August 2020

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  Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Mary of Teck. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Note in particular, MOS:CAPTION and MOS:N'T. Thank you. DrKay (talk) 07:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Anne, Princess Royal, you may be blocked from editing. Note in particular MOS:CAPTION, "Most captions are not complete sentences but merely sentence fragments which should not end with a period." DrKay (talk) 16:05, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you blank out or remove content from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Anne, Princess Royal. Materialscientist (talk) 17:05, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply