Aleko rubin

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Sanctions alert

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The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related conflicts, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 15:33, 25 July 2014‎ (UTC)

Your edits

Christianity in Turkey - in the text describing an image of ruins, despite the fact that the image states the ruins are Georgian you changed that to Armenian. Garry Kasparov - you changed " forcing thousands of ethnic Armenians to flee Azerbaijan" to "forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians to flee Azerbaijan" despite the fact that the source didn't back your change.

At Georgia (country) you removed an image of the [[Ancient Georgian States of Colchis and Caucasian Iberia to replace it with a version of Herdotus's world map that doesn't mention these ancient states.

At Kiş, Khojavend you removed the identification of it being in Azerbaijan - the correct thing to do was to note that it is controlled by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, not remove any mention of Azerbaijan.

I am now asking you please to use WP:Edit summaries to explain your edits. Please understand that you can be banned from any articles dealing with Armenia or Azerbaijan if you seem to be showing a pattern of disruptive editing, eg edits that systematically put one country in a worse light than another. Dougweller (talk) 15:51, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

July 2014

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Armenia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:50, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Aleko_rubin reported by User:Dougweller (Result: ). Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 15:16, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Aleko, you are risking a block unless you respond to the complaints and agree to follow consensus. Articles related to Armenia are heavily monitored due to past disputes. Anyone who seems to be pursuing a personal agenda (and makes no reference to sources when changing articles) will probably draw unfavorable attention from administrators. You have now made the same revert three times at Armenia. This may suggest that your change is not supported by others. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 15:27, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

July 2014

To enforce an arbitration decision, and for edit warring at Armenia, you have been blocked from editing for a period of 36 hours. You are welcome to edit once the block expires; however, please note that the repetition of similar behavior may result in a longer block. If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing arbitration enforcement blocks and then appeal your block using the instructions there. Bbb23 (talk) 19:36, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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Reminder to administrators: In March 2010, ArbCom adopted a procedure instructing administrators as follows: "No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without: (1) the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or (2) prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes" [in the procedure]). Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped." Administrators who reverse this block without the clear authorisation described in that procedure will be summarily desysopped.

In response to your comments at WP:AN3, accounts cannot be removed. The easiest thing to do is to stop editing here. If you wish, you can put a {{retire}} notice at the top of this page to indicate that you are no longer actively editing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:39, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Isn't Courtesy vanishing a thing? Tutelary (talk) 00:34, 28 July 2014 (UTC)