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Happy editing! Cheers, Isaidnoway (talk) 17:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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Evil eye, please use the
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Always check your work for citation errors, like the ones you made here and here. Isaidnoway (talk) 17:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for pointing this out and my apologies for the mistake. I will ensure to double-check the preview in future, to hopefully avoid these kinds of mistakes. Thanks again. Ronnie larko ( talk) 08:38, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for
your contributions to Wikipedia. However, in your recent edit to
Emotion, you added
links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see
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NebY (
talk) 17:07, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- @ NebY thank you for pointing this out. I'll make sure to learn about this guidance and be more careful in future. thanks. Ronnie larko ( talk) 17:53, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ronnie larko! Your additions to
2008 in the Palestinian territories have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added
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- Thank you Diannaa for pointing this out, I understand. I was primarily hoping to reference the facts and convey events (e.g. numbers of casualties) but upon closer reflection you are correct that in some instances I simply did not do a good job of that and did not properly paraphrase. Thank you for your work and for pointing this out to me. Lesson learned, and I shall try to be more careful and thorough in future. Thanks. Ronnie larko ( talk) 08:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for
your contributions to Wikipedia. However, in your recent edit to
Transportation engineering, you added
links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see
Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you.
Graham87 (
talk) 15:01, 1 May 2024 (UTC)