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Happy editing! Lord Belbury ( talk) 14:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hey there. Please be careful when deleting things. Removing the term "soccer" from association football is confusing. There are hundreds of millions of people (Americans such as myself) who only know the sport by the name soccer. Thanks. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 07:38, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
The links you added to Liz Truss were against the MoS and non-constructive. Please do not link this way again. Thanks. Tim O'Doherty ( talk) 17:09, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
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Please do not remove
maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to
Rory Stewart, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the
edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been
reverted. Thank you.
Dl2000 (
talk) 21:36, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ellwat! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at
Rory Stewart that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as
typo corrections or reverting obvious
vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see
Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you.
Dl2000 (
talk) 21:36, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Vacant0. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you
unlinked one or more
redlinks from
2023 Serbian parliamentary election.
Redlinks are useful and can often be helpful, so we don't remove them just because they are red. They help improve Wikipedia by attracting editors to create needed articles.
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I would like to complain about your callous recklessness on wholesale red link removals on several pages that also appear to show a continuing and severe degree of prejudice against interlanguage links in willful disregard of concerns raised by other editors above. If I find you arbitrarily wiping off such links again as you did in
2023 Prague shooting and
Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 September 2023 – present), then I have no choice but to either file a report at AIV or ANI.
Borgenland (
talk) 00:41, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Why are you removing so much content from Deaths in 2023 EvergreenFir (talk) 18:56, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ellwat. I noticed that you added Wikipedia as a reference for some additions to David Lammy. Unfortunately Wikipedia is never a reliable source for referencing, so I've replaced them with {{ citation needed}} tags. See WP:CIRCULAR for why Wikipedia shouldn't be used specifically, and WP:UGC for the more general issue. I've also gone through and removed similar references from a few other articles you've recently edited. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested « @» ° ∆t° 13:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Ellwat, which bits of the edit do you disagree with? The depression and alcoholism is still detailed. It's a long article. I don't think it's necessary to state where he left his car on a certain day and who visited him in hospital. Your thoughts are welcome. Anna ( talk) 14:28, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
"If the information is already out there, then does it need to be removed". If I'm reading your comment right you are are referring to secrecy or privacy issues. That was not my moticvation for the edits at all. He has made programmes about his own health issues, so it should not affect WP:BLP if propely cited. It's a question of concision and serious, revelant encyclopedic content. Re popes. Anna ( talk) 15:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm glad to help in learning to navigate the project. It is a confusing place, sometimes. Are you ok if I undo your revert of my edits? I will continue to try and clean up the Campbell article. Best wishes Anna ( talk) 10:58, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your message on my Talk page about Bancroft's School. I'm afraid verifiability in published sources is key for Wikipedia, and especially so for biographies of living people. I take your point about other listed people in that article not having references, and have tagged that section - hopefully other editors will pick this up and add references or remove people. Best wishes, Tacyarg ( talk) 20:57, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Howdy. I had to 'revert' my changes in the bios of the current British members of Parliament. But, there is a discussion taking place concerning the matter, at Template:Infobox officeholder.-- GoodDay ( talk) 15:52, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
DeFacto. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on
Diane Abbott, but you didn't support your changes with a
citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning
how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
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DeFacto (
talk). 12:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Not every school with "grammar" in its name is a state school. 31.94.60.127 ( talk) 06:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Hallo, in this edit with summary "Added a reference or two and removed superfluous information" you seem to have added an unsourced date of birth for a living person. I've tracked down a reliable-looking source, along with its archive copy from 11 December 2023 which shows that they didn't get the info from en.wiki, but another time please remember to add a decent source for any date of birth you add to an article. It's a constant problem with new MPs, where people "know" the date of birth, or find it at Companies House, but we can't include it until it has appeared in a WP:RS. Thanks. Pam D 11:10, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Your March edit to Matt Warman seems to have included adding two broken references - 7 & 14. Would you please sort that out. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 18:57, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Please note that the edit for Neil Hudson (politician) has been restored - this is factual information with citations to the local press. For future reference, please consider breaking your edits into smaller chunks rather than a single edit which contains multiple deletions and additions. Bram880 ( talk) 14:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)