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Happy editing! Dronebogus (talk) 11:26, 17 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Cliven Bundy

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  You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Cliven Bundy. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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January 2023

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I apologize. He put his social media username on his own talk page when discussing coordinating offsite, so I thought it was allowed. Vizorblaze (talk) 22:08, 18 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
Oh hell. I missed that. Let me take a look. Doug Weller talk 08:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
No, that was his email. You can’t use that to do research. Doug Weller talk 13:13, 19 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

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January 2023

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.
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These[1] [2] are egregiously bad. Anything at all like that again, and it's indefinite. Acroterion (talk) 03:21, 20 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

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