Bernard Stoltz

July 2024

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at 2022 Buffalo shooting, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 14:35, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

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Acroterion (talk) 14:36, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Greenman, I am an editor on Wikipedia, and I know what I am doing. What I did was not vandalism, nor unconstructive, but rather stating historical facts. If you have a problem with that, please contact me on my talk, instead of removing stuff because you see them as "unconstructive". Bernard Stoltz (talk) 12:21, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Also, I did my best to state only facts and be neutral. Bernard Stoltz (talk) 12:25, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Nelson Mandela. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Greenman (talk) 10:24, 18 September 2024 (UTC)