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Happy Editing! If you need to reach me, feel free to put a message below this one and include the text [[User:Super Goku V]] with brackets. Super Goku V (talk) 13:01, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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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 post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. 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. — Newslinger talk 06:47, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Joe Biden RfC

Hello SRD625,

I saw you took interest in a recent RfC on Joe Biden's age. We do appreciate when users participate in these discussions. However, I just wanted to inform you that Wikipedia is not a democracy. Instead, decisions are made by WP:consensus, not by vote. Users who participate in discussions are thus required to provide a rationale for their stance on an issue, or else their WP:!VOTE will not count. As such, edits like this one you made will simply be ignored by the administrator who will close the discussion.

Hope this clarifies how this website operates. Welcome to the community! Mottezen (talk) 22:28, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Note on formatting comments in RMs, RFCs, etc.

Hey, just a friendly note that in a discussion like an requested move, request for comment, etc., where a specific thing is being proposed, the standard format for expressing one's position is to start a newline (without leaving a blank line in between) and begin it with * . It's also common to boldface a word like "support" or "oppose", but this is not required. (Personally I sometimes avoid doing so because I feel it makes someone more likely to read my whole comment rather than just notice that one word.)

So for instance, if you're adding a comment right after mine, the source code would look like:

* '''Support'''. I think this is a good idea. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 01:35, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
* '''Your opinion here'''. [Remove the apostrophes if you don't want boldface.] Reasoning. ~~~~

If you have any questions, please let me know at my talk page or by replying here with the template {{Ping|Tamzin}}. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 01:35, 21 April 2021 (UTC)