Ozdawn

May 20111

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Fukushima I nuclear accidents ‎ , even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 07:16, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussion, as you did at Fukushima I nuclear accidents, you may be blocked from editing. Materialscientist (talk) 07:18, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Wingdings font

If no-one before you has made a connection between obscure organization-classifying bureaucratic codes and the Wingdings font, then Wikipedia policies decree that the alleged connection does not belong in Wikipedia articles... AnonMoos (talk) 02:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

So you are saying if someone writes it own their own web site or the Huffington Post then it must be OK? References to other peoples blogs could hardly be considered more legitimate citations as a government web site. Ozdawn (talk) 09:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

April 2014

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August 2014

Copyright violations

Hello Ozdawn, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Van cat has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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Your addition to Turkish Van has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:29, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Other policy problems

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Van cat, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.

In particular, you cannot add material based on your ideas of what random, unidentifiable pet owners say or think. If you are insistent in your certainty that the Turkish Van breed is known and proven to be more fond of water than other cats, then work at the Turkish Van article to provide reliable sources to this effect. Note that there is one already that suggests that this is true true, and another that says it is not; do you have something more recent than the latter, that addressed and refutes it? Do you have something better than either, e.g. a report on a controlled experiment on cat breeds and water, from a veterinary science or animal behaviorist journal? You cannot, per WP:Neutral point of view policy, push your opinion as if it were proven fact, not at that article and not at Van cat; not by trying to remove reference to the fact that reliable sources disagree on this, as you did previously, and not by inserting claims that cannot be verified, especially by reference to random unidentifiable "sources" (see WP:Weasel words). Note also that that Van cat article doesn't say that the Turkish Van's alleged affinity for water is "probably" untrue, but only "possibly"; that's a factual statement, since our sources conflict on this point. Please do not remove {{Tertiary}} tags from source citations, as you previously did at the same article; they're there for a reason (namely to flag that the source in question has unclear sources itself, and thus can and hopefully will be replaced with something more clearly reliable). Finally, using edit summaries like "I don't know what your problem is..." will be interpreted as a WP:Civility problem.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

• SMcCandlish > And you call one unnamed "Cat Fancy magazine article" as a reliable source? You seem to be the only one insistent to support your own ideas with a single unidentifiable source that of itself says is questionable "possibly false or exaggerated" - either it is or it isn't - so why do you insist on using "possibly false" information as a source? Since you seem to be owner of this page - why don't you Goggle search and see the number of other more reliable sources (who are actual owners!) reporting that the cats love water. In fact you can even watch one on YouTube who loves to jump their swimming pool and swim. The general consensus and experience as reported numerous times over certainly proves that Hart, Robert (2010)had some other personal agenda in trying to create such UNSUBSTANTIATED doubt with his otherwise UNSUBSTANTIATED opinion! And if this "possibly false or exaggerated" information is true as you insist, please provide any other reliable source that says so. - Ozdawn

See response here.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:28, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Van cat, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. [end boilerplate] I'll try one more time to address this deleting of sourced material just because you disagree with it behavior. See Talk:Van cat#Turkish Van (not Van cat) and water. PS: Please sign your posts properly, with ~~~~  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  10:28, 19 August 2014 (UTC)