Taro James

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February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. SoWhy 10:48, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

edit summaries

Hi, Please leave edit summaries for your edits - it will help others to get an ideas what changes you are making.--Sodabottle (talk) 14:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Update maintenance template on U2

Please stop adding the "update" maintenance template to the U2 article without even giving reason for it or indicating what needs to be updated. This can be construed as vandalism - our WikiProject will deal with any out-of-date information, but simply tagging the article as being out-of-date without notifying anyone what the problem is not constructive. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 13:52, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

The reson: there's nothing written about the band since 2009 —Taro James (talk) 15:52, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Have you even read the last section in the band's history? It has specific details about Bono's 2010 injury and the band's 2011 tour legs. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 11:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Where? Taro James (talk) 19:07, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

What do you mean, where? It's the last subsection in the History section. Did you read past the article introduction? Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 20:26, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

You're right —Taro James (talk) 20:45, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Pink Floyd PR

Not sure if you are watching Wikipedia:Peer review/Pink Floyd/archive2 or not, but it has gotten some more comments since it was archived from the PR page. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 22:48, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Now, I'm watching —Taro James (talk) 23:03, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

I have blocked you as a sockpuppet of the user who has edited as User:Taro-Gabunia. The evidence is rather plain to me that those accounts are one and the same and this account was created to avoid the block on the previous account. If you wish to have either of the blocks lifted and agree to use one account and address the issues that have led to your block then please follow the steps listed in the block message above. (ie use {{unblock}}). Woody (talk) 22:33, 5 May 2011 (UTC)