Kopter

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Boston, Massachusetts

Please discuss the picture change on the talk page before changing again. Wikipedia does not work through constant revert wars; it works through building consensus on the talk page that all editors agree to respect. Your next reversion will be a violation of the three revert rule and grounds for a block.--Loodog (talk) 01:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Boston, Massachusetts. 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 a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Objections have been raised, and you have been invited to discuss your edit on the talk page, as part of the process of collaborative editing. Why do you insist on substituting this picture? Little can be seen in the thumbnail view, and the page already has a better night photo, under "Cityscape". Hertz1888 (talk) 03:03, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

May 2008

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule. Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. B (talk) 05:26, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I have unblocked you. I apologize for the indefinite block - I apparently accidentally hit the wrong item on the block menu. If you try to edit and receive a block message, it is possible that there is a lingering "autoblock" (an autoblock is a part of the software that we have no control over). If so, you will be given an autoblock ID # in your block message and if you use the {{unblock}} template and leave that autoblock ID here, an admin will remove it. Again, I apologize for the length of your block - it was unintentional. --B (talk) 04:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

City disputes

Regarding your dispute over the city infoboxes, please DISCUSS your proposed changes rather than simply reverting to them. All articles have talk pages and individual users also have talk pages where you can discuss changes you like to make. If you continue to edit war across articles and are unwilling to discuss your changes, it is only going to result in you and your IP range being blocked. Please log in and discuss with the other involved users the changes you would like to make on the article talk pages. Thank you. --B (talk) 05:53, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

I have indefinitely blocked your account for repeated disruptive editing and using IP sock puppets to obfuscate the source of your edits. If you are willing to promise (1) not to edit while logged out and (2) to discuss the changes you wish to make on the article talk pages, you may be unblocked at any time. If you wish to agree to these terms and to edit non-disruptively, you may leave the {{unblock}} template on your talk page and an admin will remove this block. --B (talk) 14:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)