Bastollah

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October 2015

Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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I noticed your recent edit to Sikhism does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Kautilya3 (talk) 09:59, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced content

@Bastollah: Please do not add unsourced content into Sikhism article, as you did here. Please self-revert, or add a reliable source, and see WP:V, WP:RS and WP:CITE for help on how to do this and for wikipedia policies on content. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 18:08, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Sikhism. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Kautilya3 (talk) 11:37, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Sikh, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. You cannot add comments like "considered to be the scum of the Sikh society" without providing reliable sources for it. Thomas.W ^talk 12:24, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

ARBIPA notification

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 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.

- Kautilya3 (talk) 14:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Final warning

Edits such as this are clearly unacceptable. In addition, you seem to be using Wikipedia as an avenue for some personal crusade. Any further disruption, be it in the form of attacks on groups of people, addition of original research, or your opinion to articles will result in you losing your editing privileges with no further warning. —SpacemanSpiff 14:58, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Adding reference to Wikipedia articles

Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Hello Bastollah! Please do not forget to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Adding a well formatted references is very easy to do.

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
2. Then click on "templates",
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill as many details as you can,

This will add a well formatted reference that would be helpful in case the website link (web URL) becomes inactive (dead/link rot) after some time. You can read more about it on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv. thanks and regards --Kautilya3 (talk) 10:53, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

• to use this message place {{subst:User:DBigXray/ref}} on User_talk

November 2015

I have reverted your edits to Sikhism because they were unsourced and simply repeated your previous edits which were reverted by Kautilya3 because they were unsourced.

When an edit made by you is challenged, do not simply repeat it without explanation. Instead, provide verifiable reliable inline citations that support your edit, or take your ideas to the article's talk page and seek consensus there. The advice on providing inline citations in the section above will help if you have difficulty. Apuldram (talk) 20:15, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• Any further disruption and you are looking at a topic ban. It appears that you don't understand our policies or how to collaborate; you've been alerted to this multiple times in the past. —SpacemanSpiff 07:20, 22 November 2015 (UTC)