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Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia:

The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 14:21, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Important Notice

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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 the Arab–Israeli conflict. 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.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Doug Weller talk 14:21, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Discretionary sanctions alert for articles and content relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict

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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 the Arab–Israeli conflict. 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.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Doug Weller talk 14:22, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Specific restrictions on IP addresses and new editors

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IP addresses and editors without at least 500 edits and 30 days tenure may not edit any articles or content within articles relating to the conflict. Doug Weller talk 14:25, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

February 2019

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  Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Ethiopia, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 14:37, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

You appear to be making up numbers and also messed up the formatting

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You are changing numbers so they no longer match the sources. That may not be vandalism but it's hard to distinguish it from the usual number change vandalism we see here too often. Please stop and use the talk page or I'll have to block you, something I'd rather not do. Doug Weller talk 16:45, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

February 2019

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  Please do not add or change content, as you did at Religion in Ethiopia, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. JimRenge (talk) 16:48, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did on Ethiopia. This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Dirkbb (talk) 16:53, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Religion in Ethiopia. JimRenge (talk) 17:09, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

 

Your recent editing history at Ethiopia shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Doug Weller talk 17:10, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

 
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently adding unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Islam in Ethiopia.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  ~Swarm~ {talk} 18:30, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Reply