EliasAntonakos

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Huldra (talk • contribs) 21:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

-- Note especially that you should not be editing the IP area until you have 500 edits,Huldra (talk) 21:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

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

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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. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Most notably, page moves without discussion, and largescale content deletion, including source deletion, without discussion, are simply unacceptable. Iskandar323 18:34, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Iskandar323: Roman Palestine wasn't even created until you created it at 17:50, 10 July 2024‎ (UTC), so what is this about? —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:32, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Warning

I gave you the above "alert" on July 3rd. You still haven't gotten 500 edits; IMO you have broken the restiction on

• 10:44, 9 July 2024
• 11:09, 9 July 2024

Expect to find yourself at WP:AE, if you continue to break your restriction, cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Wow, such aggressiveness!!! This article has no connection to any conflict. It is about Ottoman era history in the Levant. What is this all about? EliasAntonakos (talk) 08:27, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Of course it has something to do with the conflict: it is a standard beliefs in certain quarters that the whole Palestinian population stems from relatively recent immigrants (and therefore have no, or a very weak attachment to the land), cheers, Huldra (talk) 19:43, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Huldra: Of course, Wikipedia editors should endeavor to abide by the rules of Wikipedia. But I share EliasAntonakos's raised eyebrow here, because the article Muslim migrations to Ottoman Palestine

1. Isn't obviously related to the Arab–Israeli conflict, especially to someone new to Wikipedia and new to editing articles construed to be related to said topic.
2. Isn't pp-extended templated and doesn't display a warning to editors that it is covered by the 500 edits 30 days rule, in contrast, for example, to Lod, Tulkarm, Golda Meir, or Yasser Arafat.

Even if EliasAntonakos's two edits to Muslim migrations to Ottoman Palestine violated 500/30, which is debatable, I think the edits were benign, and especially for that reason, I would encourage you to WP:Assume good faith and WP:Don't bite the newbies. I think you could have made your warning more gently, including a gentler heading, such as, perhaps, "More on contentious topics".

EliasAntonakos: These comments should not be construed as an endorsement of any future editing on your part. It would be best to construe the the Arab–Israeli conflict broadly until further clarification, or you reach 500 edits, whichever comes first.

Cheers, —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:32, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Roman Palestine

The page is now fully protected in the version prior to the dispute. Take it to Talk:Roman Palestine. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 14:46, 10 July 2024 (UTC)