December 2009 edit

  Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Acroterion (talk) 19:02, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

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The article concerns a major metropolitan police force. While a mention of the existence of a gift shop may be warranted, devoting 15% of the word count to it and adding contact numbers, hours of operation, staff members, descriptions of the facility and trivia is inappropriate and promotional. Expansion of this article should focus on the police force, not the merchandise. Acroterion (talk) 19:06, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. Acroterion (talk) 19:08, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

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  You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Acroterion (talk) 19:08, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

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OPS Gift Shop (talk · contribs) is blocked, and this IP has been blocked for spamming and block evasion. Acroterion (talk) 19:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

 
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for repeated abuse of editing privileges. Please stop. You are welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below. Acroterion (talk) 19:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
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Welcome edit

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Ottawa Police Service edit

I noticed you are making many edits to this article. Please use the edit summaries to describe what you do in each edit. that will help other editors. For example, in this edit you introduced a reference name "RCMP organisation". This reference is broken at the moment. Could you please tell me where you got it from, so that I may fix it? Thank you, Debresser (talk) 16:09, 24 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

I've left some notes concerning the article at Talk:Ottawa Police Service. You might want to step back and consider whether some of this is appropriate for an encyclopedia. I appreciate your efforts to expand the article, but it's starting to look like a webpage for the OPS, rather than an encyclopedia article on the OPS. Acroterion (talk) 19:41, 22 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
I'd strongly suggest that you avoid the use of the first and second persons ("we", "you") in writing for an encyclopedia. You may also wish to consider whether you're putting in too much detail, particularly for the current organizational structure and current events, and ignoring the history of the service. You are clearly associated with the OPS and must be conservative in writing about the OPS. Acroterion (talk) 20:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

February 2010 edit

  Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Acroterion (talk) 18:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Conflict of interest on Ottawa Police Service? edit

  If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Ottawa Police Service, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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Copyright violations edit

Much of the content you've inserted is a direct copy from the OPS website. The OPS website is copyrighted - you may not use the material on Wikipedia, which is a free-content encyclopedia. Please stop and contribute constructively and in a manner appropriate to an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a mirror for the OPS website. If you do not stop, and reconsider how you participate, your additions may be summarily reverted, and you may beblocked from editing again, possibly for a lengthy term. You have a clear conflict of interest - please understand Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. We may make contact with the OPS media relations office if you continue to use Wikipedia to present community advice on behalf of the OPS. Acroterion (talk) 19:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

ANI discussion opened edit

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at WP:ANI#Repeated copvios on Ottawa Police Service regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --RrburkeekrubrR 20:17, 24 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

October 2010 edit

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Ottawa Police Service has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ottawa-ON/Ottawa-Police-Service/156218914400984?ref=ts.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 13:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
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