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Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 15:11, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

You can't be making edits like this [1].

To edit in the Israeli-Palestinian topic area on Wikipedia accounts must be at least thirty days old and have at least 500 edits. This includes editing talk pages, with the sole exception being for very specific edit requests, which should be in the form of "change x to y for reason z". IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Does this also include if it is on the basis of being against Wiki guidelines about another users edit request within the talk page? As i provided reasoning for it to being against NPOV. I personally didn't see that mentioned in the Israeli-Palestinian topic area on Wikipedia. If so i'd like to know as to not fall in a similair mistake in the future. Thank you. Imteghren (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately, you're simply not allowed to edit this contentious topic at all except to make edit requests. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 20:07, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Got it I will keep it mind, thanks for clarfying ! Imteghren (talk) 20:39, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

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