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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Kautilya3 ( talk) 20:51, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Regarding this edit summary, the WP:BURDEN rests on you as the editor wanting to make changes to provide reliable sources. Gyan Publishing books are not reliable sources because they do not have the reputation of fact-checking. - Kautilya3 ( talk) 20:52, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Hello Pinsi, please spend some time reading through the links posted above, especially the 'Five pillars of Wikipedia articles. You need to have a good grip on the Wikipedia policies in order to succeed editing in contentious areas. Also, please make sure that you indent your talk page posts correctly and sign your posts by putting ~~~~. You can find more help on how to use talk pages at WP:TPHELP. - Kautilya3 ( talk) 08:55, 11 January 2016 (UTC) reply

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Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

-- regentspark ( comment) 00:44, 10 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Hi Pinsi281. Generally, when you find that your changes to an article are being reverted by another editor, you should discuss your changes on the talk page and get consensus. If you can't get local consensus on the talk page, there are various dispute resolution options available for you to try. What you should not do is to undo the revert and try to force your changes as you are doing on Sikhism. Please use the talk page otherwise you're going to end up blocked for disruptive editing. -- regentspark ( comment) 00:48, 10 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Thank you.

Hi. I have been blocked for alleged socking. That is fine. I am not a sock and would seek avenues for getting unblocked if and when I really want to continue editing Wikipedia.

In the meantime, I have a question regarding the privileges I still enjoy, if any. In particular, I have serious concerns about the mode of operation of certain editors and would like to bring it to the attention of the wider community. I believe ANI is one such avenue. However, am I allowed to raise my concern there ? If yes, how ? If not, is there any other route you can recommend ? Would appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

Pinsi281 ( talk) 06:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC) reply

See WP:GAB for your appeal rights.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:49, 13 March 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks. I was not asking about how to appeal my block though. I am asking how, if possible, can I raise an issue regarding the conduct of other editors that are ruining Wikipedia ? Any pointers ?

And since you did respond, can you also clarify why I was blocked ? Is sharing of the network (IP) enough reason for being blocked ? Pinsi281 ( talk) 19:24, 13 March 2016 (UTC) reply

You know why you were blocked. No, you can't raise issues concerning other editors.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 19:53, 13 March 2016 (UTC) reply

In a recent edit to the page Narendra Modi, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to India, use Indian English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. AusLondonder ( talk) 09:41, 4 April 2016 (UTC) reply

In Indian English the spelling is "criticised" not "criticized" AusLondonder ( talk) 09:41, 4 April 2016 (UTC) reply