Ankush M. Nahata

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July 2021

Hello, I'm GreaterPonce665. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Indurikar Maharaj have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 ^(TALK) 16:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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--RegentsPark (comment) 15:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

September 2021

Hello, I'm DaxServer. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Bajrang Dal seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. — DaxServer (talk to me) 11:09, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

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Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Bajrang Dal. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. — DaxServer (talk to me) 08:32, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Shivaji, you may be blocked from editing. — DaxServer (talk to me) 08:21, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page IAS.

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Indic scripts

Hi. Please take a note about WP:NOINDICSCRIPTS policy which doesn't allow Indic scripts in articles except about the languages themselves. — DaxServer (talk to me) 08:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

October 2021

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary, as you did at Basmath (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Please don't remove sources - this is a major violation of WP:VERIFY Doug Weller talk 14:04, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Blocked

Hi, Ankush. You have been repeatedly warned about adding unsourced content, not using edit summaries, adding your own opinion to articles, and other problems, but you have never changed your editing habits, nor responded here. I have therefore blocked you indefinitely. Perhaps you have not been aware of having this page? You may be unblocked if you read the warnings and respond below, promising to improve your practices from now on. Bishonen | tålk 06:06, 15 October 2021 (UTC).

A big problem with your edits involves your additions of Wikilinks

You are adding multiple links for the same article, linking dates, and linking ordinary English words, words that if the reader can't understand them without reading the link they probably can't understand the article anyway. Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking. I tried to clean up but there was so much I gave up. Doug Weller talk 10:28, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Please don't add "Dr." in front of peoples names

We just don't do it, even for the most famous. We do include, with reliable sources of course, their qualifications. Doug Weller talk 10:30, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

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17:28, 16 November 2021 (UTC)