OlegNovgorod
July 2024
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Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia, and articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Emu War. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, please use your sandbox instead, where you are given a certain degree of freedom in what you write. - Altenmann >talk 01:48, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Template:Infobox military operation/doc, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use your sandbox. Thank you. - Altenmann >talk 01:49, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Please do not mess with infoboxes as you did in Batu's raid of 1240 in Ruthenia until you gain a better understanding how wikipedia works. - Altenmann >talk 01:50, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Please do not mess with propagandist terms, as Wikipedia is supposed to be a neutral website and not a website which displays 500 year old papist propaganda :) OlegNovgorod (talk) 16:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Please do not remove cleanup messages until you gain a better understanding how wikipedia works.
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