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Hello, I'm GorillaWarfare. I noticed that in this edit to Detention of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:32, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello,
You seem to be a returning user so this shouldn't be news to you, but don't casually drop a rewrite or cleanup tag on an article just because you think it could be better. The "rewrite" tag is intended for content that is basically true but not remotely in an encyclopedic style for Wikipedia - when people drop bloggy / travelogue / paste their Master's Thesis / etc. on in to an article but don't make it look like an encyclopedia article at all. None of the articles you tagged were remotely that bad - you can argue that their WikiProject quality ratings should be lower of course, but that's separate. Wikipedia is a work in progress, always under construction. Most articles are not Good Articles or Featured Articles. If you really have a problem with an article and think it needs massive revision despite appearing normal, you need to explain exactly what's going on on the talk page, and that will be more helpful than adding a "rewrite" tag. (Same to "update" sections - how much recent material to include is editor judgment, you should only add that when blatantly out of date, like a sports player having nothing talking about the last half of their career.) SnowFire ( talk) 19:18, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Far Cry 6. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. -- ferret ( talk) 22:38, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Yeeno ( talk) 🍁 06:44, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia. You've been warned countless times in edit summaries and on this talk page to stop your disruptive, summary-less, and pointless edits. Copyright violations, edit warring WP:3RR, and on. Stop saying you'll rewrite anything, stop making any promises, and stop telling anybody else what to do. I haven't seen you write one coherent English sentence, and some of it is totally illegible. Nobody discriminates against imperfect English but this is beyond the pale. Users can be blocked for any of these things. — Smuckola (talk) 02:33, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I see in a recent addition to Yoshi you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa ( talk) 20:39, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi, looking at some of the non-free files you uploaded to use on Bowser (character), some of them seem to have rationales that don't properly describe how they're being used. e.g. File:Bowser Emblem.png says that its purpose is "to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question." The rationales for File:Bowser in Bowser's Inside Story.png and File:Bowser early concept.jpg say the exact same thing. But none of these images is actually used at the top of the article, and the article is not dedicated to "the work in question" in any of these cases. Colin M ( talk) 04:06, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading File:Bowser Emblem.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. (Oinkers42) ( talk) 16:36, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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talk) 22:11, 13 October 2021 (UTC)Thanks for uploading File:Mario with Yoshi.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:34, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Sora in Smash.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. TarkusAB talk/ contrib 03:02, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Volcanic ash has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Kent G. Budge ( talk) 16:24, 4 December 2021 (UTC)