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At Truman Committee you performed some changes including a change in the style of citations. This is not needed or desired, per WP:CITEVAR. The original citation style first used in the article should remain in the article unless consensus for change is established on the talk page. Binksternet ( talk) 12:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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Why are you adding them to the continuous integration article? I've never seen it done and it's not described at Wikipedia:Piped link. -- Walter Görlitz ( talk) 20:14, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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You made this edit to Pedrail wheel, which broke the citation you altered. I have replaced the original citation as it was, to fix the article.
It looks as if you are engaged in some effort to replace various citation formats with the one you prefer, by automated means. I'm sure your edits are well-intentioned, but when they break pages in the process, the overall effect is in my opinion negative. Efforts like this can also get negative reactions from editors who prefer other formats. WP:CITEVAR states: "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change." In my opinion, there needs to be objective evidence of consensus before these types of changes are made wholesale.
Please ensure your tools are functioning correctly and take my comments into account before making further edits of this type.
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Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
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Have never used a robot, would not even know how to do it. Lgfcd ( talk) 8:53 pm, 6 February 2013, Wednesday (9 days ago) (UTC+0)
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Having watched this for a while, I can only apologise for not stepping in and lifting the block earlier. I think that as a community we're being unreasonable towards Lgfcd - it's pretty evident now that he's not running a bot, and since that's what he's blocked for, there's no need to make him jump through hoops to get unblocked. Lgfcd, I'd suggest you steer clear of making edits that could be construed as "bot-like" in future, but beyond that I see no reason to constrain your editing any further. Yunshui 雲 水 09:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
See Anomie's response here. I'm still doubtful about the validity of this block, but will leave a final decision to an independent reviewer. An optimist on the run! 15:15, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
If you decide to stay, and if you are unblocked, are you prepared to follow accepted wikipedia structure and policy insofar as the addition of references and citations is concerned? This specifically means not making what you have termed "improvements".-- Anthony Bradbury "talk" 15:18, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
You continue to make unexplained sweeping changes to reference formats, like you have done on Saab JAS 39 Gripen without any attempt to seek consensus on the talk page of the articles, and leaving it up to others to clear up the mess left, including changes to author names. Please consider the requirements of WP:CITEVAR which says that consensus must be obtained on the article talk page before making such changes. You do not seem to be changing the behaviour that got you blocked because someone mistook your mass changing of reference formats with no discussion for a bot. Please reconsider and work with other editors, not against them. Nigel Ish ( talk) 11:14, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
You've asked what exactly the editors have been complaining about; so here it is in one single word: WP:CITEVAR. On this talk page alone, User:Nigel Ish, User:MegaSloth, User:Bzuk, User:Jeh, User:TheFarix, and User:Binksternet have all linked WP:CITEVAR to you over the last five months. I would suggest, if you actually took the time to read CITEVAR and what it means (basically "Don't change article citation styles to your personal preference without agreement"), you would know what actions that you have doing that has caused over half a dozen editors to point out this same rule to you. Kyteto ( talk) 23:59, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
You know, three months later we're still awaiting any response from you on this issue. You're clearly actively editing Wikipedia in recently weeks, yet you don't respond to dozens of different editors starting conversations on this talk page regarding your improvements. This is leaving little options to what can be done if dialogue is being completely ignored. Could you please respond? Kyteto ( talk) 05:03, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
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Why are you adding spaces to the references at On Becoming Baby Wise? Such spaces do not assist the reader in any way. Changing references in this manner is neither improving nor fixing them; it is simply changing them. Change is not needed if the references are consistent within the article. Binksternet ( talk) 19:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
As has been said many times here, you should get consensus before making sweeping changes to existing reference format, per WP:CITEVAR. Before you make wholesale changes to reference formats on any page, you need to propose such changes on that article's talk page and get consensus for your new format before proceeding.
If you have actual information to add to the references other than formatting changes, please make those changes without changing whatever format you find on each page.
I assume it is not your intention to be disruptive, but the majority of comments posted here should tell you that that is how many of your format-changing (and some other) edits are perceived. In the future, please try to be more willing to accept community input. Jeh ( talk) 12:04, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I had a similar unpleasant experience today, and I reverted his/her changes with the same explanation here. Apparently, this new editor is a slow learner because repeated explanations across multiple articles have not helped. There are other ways to reinforce the point, and I hope we won't have to go there. The solution is simple - use the talk page to propose your article-wide changes and reach a consensus with the other involved editors before you proceed. Ignocrates ( talk) 01:43, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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W. H. Auden received more of these wholesale changes. I am grateful for at least one of them - an archived link that replaces a dead one - but the rest modify the standard format on the page. I have reverted the wholesale changes, but will take this opportunity to make the existing references more consistent. So some of the work done by this editor will (and should) go into the page, but not at the cost of changing so many existing formats. - Macspaunday ( talk) 13:40, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I notice you have made a number of fairly substantial changes, and yet they are all marked as m (minor). That is not correct. A minor change basically is something almost inconsequential, such as addition/removal of capitalisation. More than that is not minor. For more info, click on the link next to the box on the edit page. John of Cromer in transit ( talk) mytime= Sat 12:24, wikitime= 11:24, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks, BracketBot ( talk) 12:02, 13 June 2013 (UTC) Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Hydraulic fracturing, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Georgia ( check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot ( talk) 11:36, 13 June 2013 (UTC) I appreciate how hard you worked on this, but your changes to the citation system have made it impossible for me to work with the article (I'm one of the primary contributors of actual content), and has screwed up the citations in several sections. The article is too long, and we need to spin off some sections into independent articles. On the talk page, it was decided not to deal with the citations until that process was carried out. It is very time-consuming, because there are massive amounts of sources, and involves actual writing and development of content. Again, I'm sorry I reverted your work, but for such a high-importance article to which you haven't contributed, it might've been better to propose such a major restructuring first. Cynwolfe ( talk) 18:00, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
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