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Flagicons in biography infoboxes

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I'm also not sure why you would be removing the "present" from the year-end field of the infobox. I'd suggest you have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/Manual of style/Biography infobox before making further changes.Doctorhawkes (talk) 21:33, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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Flags in infoboxes

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Proposed deletion of Tikiko Noke

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Proposed deletion of Sydney Havea

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'New Zealand Māori rugby league team players' sub-category

I notice that you have added the 'New Zealand Māori rugby league players' category to biographical articles that already had the 'New Zealand Māori rugby league team players' category. This was unecessary, as 'New Zealand Māori rugby league team players' is already a sub-category of 'New Zealand Māori rugby league players', and so is already encompassed by that category. Best Regards, DynamoDegsy (talk)

Proposed deletion of Daniel Strickland

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Removal of Squad Navboxes for Brumbies and Blues players

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I'm not sure why you are deleting the past squad history of Blues and Brumbies players. This information gives a more complete picture of the players career history rather than only displaying their current squad.

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January 2014

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Queensland census edits

Hi Waheed, thanks for your efforts to update Queensland census data. However, please note that we have a template for 2011 census data, {{Census 2011 AUS}}, and it's not acceptable to change the year of the template without checking that the link still works. The reference should also be invoked whenever ABS data appears, similar to the way I did it at Burpengary, Queensland. There are also some grammatical and tense issues with your edits, which I've fixed at the above article. Graham87 02:53, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, filling out the edit summary field for your edits would also be helpful, so that other editors can more easily figure out what you've done. Graham87 13:27, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

To follow up with a few other points, there is no need to start a new paragraph after each sentence since its all related information from the same source. I would also reconsider the way you are phrasing the census data. It would be better to use statements like "According to the 2011 Australian Census" or "2011 census data indicated" or "Statistics from the 2011 Australian Census reveal". The reason for this is that the census is a survey which therefore carries a margin of error. Whereas your sentences have stated as facts that "x amount of people are this or that". Another thing is that if you fill out the infobox like this and a figure for the area is in the infobox, the density will automatically be calculated and displayed. - Shiftchange (talk) 07:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

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Poor form

Don't do this either. You have removed sourced material for no valid reason. I noticed once again you are ignoring advice from more experienced editors. This can lead to your account being blocked. Please pay attention to what other editors are letting you know. - Shiftchange (talk) 09:13, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Ways to improve Lamb Island, Queensland

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New Beith - not a suburb of Brisbane?

Hi, Waheed91! Great to see you getting in there and trying to bring things up to date. However, I am a bit puzzled by your addition of New Beith in the Template:City of Brisbane suburbs because it's gazetted as being in the City of Logan. Kerry (talk) 07:05, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Your edits

Hello- your edits are tending towards the tiresome; you create articles with an incorrect postcode via copy/paste; you add 2011 census figures linked to 2006 figures or linked to another place; you do not use the edit summary to tell us what you are doing; So it is with no apology that an occasional good edit by you has been undone. Wikipedia requires a little bit of effort on the part of editors to ensure we get it nearly right most of the time, and not leave a trail of rubbish behind us for others to fix. Regards Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:24, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

As above, after your edit or edit review, please, please click on the reference links and see where they link to. They are your responsibility to ensure they are valid. Once again, more rubbish for others to fix. Crusoe8181 (talk) 08:05, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

And yet you persist. DO NOT CREATE AN ARTICLE FOR A PLACE BY COPY/PASTING FROM ANOTHER PLACE WITH A DIFFERENT POSTCODE AND OTHER SUCH INFORMATION WHICH IS THEN INCORRECT. We grow impatient from following you around and reverting your edits. Crusoe8181 (talk) 02:20, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

And still you persist. And still we waste our time following your egregious edits around and reverting them. PLEASE STOP IMMEDIATELY if you are disinclined to introduce accurate facts to Wikipedia. Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:39, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Overlink

Please do not wikilink countries as per WP:OVERLINK: "the following are not usually linked: the names of major geographic features" Schwede66 07:29, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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Original styling of place name is correct

Hello, Just letting you know that I have reversed your 4 February 2014, edit of the Julia Morris article. The original styling, i.e. Sydney, Australia, is the correct formatting, not Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Refer to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Cheers. Melbourne3163 (talk) 06:19, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

The same comments apply to your 4 February 2014, edit of the Mark Holden article which has been reversed. Could you please stop changing this styling as it is wrong (but, see comments below). Thank you. Melbourne3163 (talk) 08:43, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

I have removed the further comment that was here while I double-check my facts. My comments are based on guidance given to me by a very experienced editor whose advice I have followed in good-faith since I started editing, but I am also now struggling to find confirmation in the MOS which is worrying to me. I know I was satisfied it was right at the time and it was given to me by sources I trust. I will search out my original help/tip sheets and post more a.s.a.p. If I have made a good-faith mistake I will reverse my edits and apologise unreservedly. More to come. Melbourne3163 (talk) 17:17, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Melbourne3163, can you please point to the exact place in the MOS that supports your view? From what I've read, Waheed91 would be quite correct, but if he's wrong then I and many others are wrong too. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 10:32, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I have now found my original notes that refer to styling of place names and they point me to this article, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) not the Wikipedia:Manual of Style itself; sorry for the confusion. If you click on sub-section 12.3.3.1 in the Specific topics section, the example there says, "(e.g., Sydney rather than Sydney, New South Wales)" and my advice was then extended to say, then add the country - using that example it would read 'Sydney, Australia' not Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. So that is where my belief has come from. I also now notice the following in another section of the article, "Region-specific guidance. Where there is no Wikipedia convention on a specific country and disambiguation is necessary, it is generally reasonable to use placename, nation, as in Shire, Ethiopia."

I am relieved to have found my notes as it at least confirms I wasn't 'dreaming' and was basing my edits on something concrete. However I am not trying to be belligerent in any way and await any further comments you might have before I continue with the style I was taught; I can see that you are a very experienced editor, far more experienced than me. Cheers. Melbourne3163 (talk) 22:00, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply.

OK, first of all, the article you refer to is guidance about the titles of articles on geographic places. It says nothing about general textual references to such places.

That said, it also says: Most Australian settlement articles are at Town, State/Territory; however, the name of a city or town may be used alone if the place is the primary or only topic for that name. Then it gives the example of Sydney rather than Sydney, New South Wales. But nowhere does it sanction the use of the form Sydney, Australia. No offence to my American friends, but that sounds like an American way of referring to Sydney, not an Australian way. Similarly, we're educated enuf to say Los Angeles, California, not Los Angeles, USA.

As far as I can tell, the names of places, at least at their first mention in an article, are generally given in what I might call "postal style". That is, be guided by how you'd address a letter to someone there: Mr Joe Bloggs, xyz address, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000. In infoboxes etc, it may be appropriate to also add the name of the country, but that depends.

Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 08:35, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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Disruptive editing

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March 2014

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at Micah Richards, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason.

Please stop adding unnecessary detail to people's birthplaces and replacing correct links with redirects. Additionally, the Manual of Style suggests that names of well-known countries etc should NOT be wikilinked, so please don't put square brackets round the likes of England. And your changes to the order of categories seems pretty pointless. In general, they're in the conventional order used on football player bios, so there's no need to change them just for the sake of it. And lastly, please use edit summaries so that other editors can tell what you think you're doing. Thank you. Struway2 (talk) 09:03, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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April 2014

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at Ross Turnbull, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Addition of an unnecessary wikilink and pointless reordering of categories. Mattythewhite (talk) 23:57, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Christopher Cristaldo. Mattythewhite (talk) 21:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Ryan Tandy

The Ryan Tandy page had an In use template on it when you edited it here. As a result we had an edit conflict, which complicated my edit. Please take notice of such requests as I specifically put the template there to avoid what happened. --220 of ^Borg 08:26, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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  Waheed91, you should already know about and use edit summaries. I strongly urge you to start collaborating with other editors. It appears that you have never answered any talkpage queries, or replied to comments on this page. This is not how Wikipedia is supposed to be. Editors with far more edits than yours have been banned when they refused to acknowledge the concerns of other editors. Think about it! --220 of ^Borg 08:46, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Isaac John, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. WP:MOSFLAG. Mattythewhite (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

May 2014

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Category:Sydney Roosters under 20's players

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