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Single issue warnings
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| {{subst:uw-affiliate|Article}} |  Please do not use Wikipedia for affiliate marketing, such as you did in the article Article. This is contrary to the guidelines on external links and immediately suggests that you may have a conflict of interest. Feel free to take a look at the five pillars of Wikipedia policy to learn more about this project and how you can make a positive impact. Users who continue to use Wikipedia for affiliate marketing are likely to be blocked from editing. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-agf-wellknown|Article}} |  Hello, Template index/User talk namespace, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your username matches the name of a well-known, living person: Article. If this account appears to be used for impersonation, it may be blocked under the Wikipedia username policy.
If you are the person represented by this username, please consider the legal consequences and potential for harassment. You may choose to edit under a new username (see information below), but keep in mind that you are welcome to continue to edit under this username. If you choose to keep your current username, please send an email to info-en If you are not the person represented by this username, you are welcome to choose a new username. A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. |
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| {{subst:uw-botun|Reason}} | Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Template index/User talk namespace", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it contains the suffix "-bot", which is generally reserved for authorized bot accounts. In addition, it Reason. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-canvass|Article}} | It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Article. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-coi-username|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Article, and I noticed that your username, "Template index/User talk namespace", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".
Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-copyright|Article}} |  Your edit to Article has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.
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| {{subst:uw-copyright-image-final|File:Example.jpg}} | You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you upload files in violation of copyright, as you did at File:Example.jpg.
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| {{subst:uw-copyright-link|Article}} |  If you believe the linked site is not violating copyright with respect to the material, then you should do one of the following:
If the material is available on a different site that satisfies one of the above conditions, link to that site instead. |
| {{subst:uw-copyright-new|Article}} |  Hello Template index/User talk namespace! Your additions to Article have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-copyright-remove|Article}} | Please do not remove copyright templates from articles, as you did with Article. Your action has been reverted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept non-free text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted, and removing copyright notices will not help your case. You can properly contest the issue at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are the owner of the material, you may release the material under the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses, as detailed at WP:IOWN. Alternatively, you are welcome to create a draft in your own words at Talk:Article/Temp. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators and/or removers of the copyright notice templates will be blocked from editing.
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| {{subst:uw-derogatory|Article}} | Do not add slurs, images, symbols, or other content meant to attack, harass, threaten, or disparage certain people or groups based on nationality, race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or other factors. Such content is not tolerated by Wikipedia and as such may be hidden from public view at any time by an administrator (or in extreme cases, suppressed). Articles or files of which the only purpose is to attack, harass, threaten or disparage certain people or groups are speedily deleted. If you add hateful, derogatory, or bigoted content again, as you did at Article, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
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| {{subst:uw-efsummary|Article}} | Your recent edit to the page Article contains an edit summary that appears to have triggered the edit filter. The summary may have contained inappropriate text, such as a highly repetitive character sequence, profanity, gibberish, or all caps. Please use appropriate edit summaries to tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. If your summary did not contain such text, please report it to the false positives page and remove this message. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-ewsoft|Article}} |
All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree at Talk:Article, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-ew|Article}} |  You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Article. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
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If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. |
| {{subst:uw-1rr|Article}} | Being involved in an edit war can result in being blocked from editing—especially as the page in question is currently under restrictions from the Arbitration Committee, if you violate the one-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than one revert on a single page with active Arbitration Committee restrictions 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 one-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the one-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. |
| {{subst:uw-3rr|Article}} | 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 do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. |
| {{subst:uw-3rr-alt|Article}} |  Hello. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Article. Please be aware that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reverts on a single page within a 24 hour period. Rather than reverting edits, please consider using the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. The dispute resolution processes may also help. Excessive reverting may result in the loss of editing privileges.
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| {{subst:uw-hijacking|Article}} |  Please refrain from hijacking pages, as you did with Article. Should you believe the subject you were writing about deserves an article, please use the Article Wizard, which has an option to create a draft version that you can then get feedback on. Please also see Wikipedia's disambiguation guideline which indicates how to handle separate subjects with similar names. If you continue to hijack an existing article, you may be blocked from editing. If you have any questions, you are always welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-legal|Article}} | Your recent edits to Article could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-login|Article}} | Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Article while logged out. Please be mindful not to perform controversial edits while logged out, or your account risks being blocked from editing. Please consider reading up on Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts before editing further. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-lyrics|Article}} | Please do not add copyrighted lyrics to articles, as you did to the article Article. This is a copyright violation, and goes against Wikipedia's non-free content policy and general content policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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| {{subst:uw-multipleIPs|Article}} | Do not use multiple IP addresses to disrupt Wikipedia, like you did at Article. Such attempts to avoid detection, circumvent policies or evade blocks or sanctions will not succeed. You are welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, but your recent edits have been reverted or removed. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
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| {{subst:uw-paraphrase|Article}} |  Your addition to Article has been removed or altered, as it appears to closely paraphrase a copyrighted source. Limited close paraphrasing or quotation is appropriate within reason, so long as the material is clearly attributed in the text. However, longer paraphrases, especially if they are not attributed to their source, may constitute copyright violation or plagiarism, and are not acceptable on Wikipedia. Such content cannot be hosted here for legal reasons; please do not post it on any page, even if you plan to fix it later. You may use external websites or printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.
If you own the copyright to the text, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use it — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the copyright but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. |
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Do not add personal information about other contributors to Wikipedia without their explicit permission, as you did at Article. Wikipedia operates on the principle that every contributor has the right to remain completely anonymous. Posting personal information about another user is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's harassment policy. Wikipedia's policy on this issue is strictly enforced and your edits have been reverted and/or suppressed, not least because such information can appear on web searches. Wikipedia's privacy policy is to protect the privacy of every user, including you. Persistently adding personal information about other contributors will result in being blocked from editing.
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| {{subst:uw-point|Article}} | Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but your recent edits, such as those to Article, appear to be intentional disruptions designed to illustrate a point. Edits designed for the deliberate purpose of drawing opposition, including making edits you do not agree with or enforcing a rule in a generally unpopular way, are highly disruptive and can lead to a block or ban. If you feel that a policy is problematic, the policy's talk page is the proper place to raise your concerns. If you simply disagree with someone's actions in an article, discuss it on the article talk page or, if direct discussion fails, through dispute resolution. If consensus strongly disagrees with you even after you have made proper efforts, then respect the consensus, rather than trying to sway it with disruptive tactics. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-removedlink|Article}} |  Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove useful links from an article, as you did in the article Article. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-salt|Article}} | 1|==Creation protection request for Article==}}
A request has been filed for the title of Article to be added to the title blacklist. This has been done because the article appears to be a recreation, under a different title, of an article which is itself currently protected against recreation. Please note that titles used to circumvent the protection policy are often given the same level of protection as the original title the author is trying to circumvent, or are added to the title blacklist. If you feel that the topic of the article meets our notability guidelines, please request a deletion review or use a request for unprotection instead. Please note that repeated recreation of an article against a consensus to delete is considered disruptive and may get you blocked from editing. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-socialnetwork-strong|Article}} | Please do not continue to use Wikipedia as a social network, as you apparently did at Article. You have been warned already about using talk pages and/or help resources for general discussion, and if you continue to do so without making any significant contributions to the encyclopedia, you may be blocked from editing. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page.
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| {{subst:uw-sockwarn|Example}} | It has been found that you have been using one or more accounts abusively or have edited logged out to avoid scrutiny. Please review the policy on acceptable alternate accounts. In short, alternate accounts should not be used for the purposes of deceiving others into seeing more support for your position. It is not acceptable to use two accounts on the same article, or the same topic area, unless they are publicly and plainly disclosed on both your and the other account's userpage.
Your other account(s) have been blocked indefinitely. This is your only warning. If you repeat this behavior you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-upv|Article}} | Constructive contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to Article may be offensive or unwelcome. In general, it is considered polite to avoid substantially editing others' user pages without their permission. Instead, please bring the matter to their talk page and let them edit their user page themselves if they agree on a need to do so. Please refer to Wikipedia:User page for more information on user page etiquette. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-username|Reason}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Template index", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because Reason. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-userpage|Article}} | Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your user subpage at Article may not meet Wikipedia's user page guidelines. It is intended for basic information about yourself, your interests and goals as they relate to editing Wikipedia, as well as disclosures of conflicts of interest and paid editing. Although a lot of freedom is allowed in personalizing your user page, it is not:
The user page guidelines have additional information on what is and what is not considered acceptable content. Please use your user sandbox or the draft article space to practice editing or to create new articles. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-wrongsummary-strong|Article}} | Do not mark your edits with inappropriate edit summaries, as you did at Article. Your edits have been reverted or removed as unconstructive, and the use of deceptive or inappropriate edit summaries is considered disruptive editing; if you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.
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Single issue notices
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| {{subst:uw-2redirect|Article}} | When moving pages, as you did to Article, please remember to fix any double redirects. These can create slow, unpleasant experiences for the reader, waste server resources, and make the navigational structure of the site confusing. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-3o|Article}} |  Thank you for listing your dispute at Wikipedia:Third opinion. Your request did not follow the guidelines for listing disputes. These guidelines are in place to ensure that the editor who writes the Third Opinion is not biased, and that they can easily see what the dispute is about.
The description of the dispute should be concise and neutral, and you should sign with the timestamp only. A concise and neutral description means that only the subject matter of the dispute should be described, and not your (nor anyone else's) views on it. For example, in a dispute about reliable sources, do not write "They think this source is unreliable", but rather write "Disagreement about the reliability of a source". To sign with only the timestamp, and without your username, use five tildes (~~~~~) instead of four. Your request for a Third Opinion may have been edited by another editor to follow the guidelines - feel free to edit it again if you feel it's necessary. If the dispute is of such a nature that it cannot follow the guidelines, another part of the dispute resolution process may be able to help you. |
| {{subst:uw-accshare}} |  Hello, Template index/User talk namespace! Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that this account may be used by multiple people. Sharing accounts is prohibited on Wikipedia, and those who do may be blocked from editing. If there are multiple people sharing this account, please make them log out and create an account. Additionally, please change the password on this account. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-afcaddition|Draft changed}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that I've added your recently created draft (Draft changed) to the Articles for Creation procedure. I've done this because I believe it will be beneficial for you and your article so that you can learn from experienced editors before it's moved to mainspace. If you don't want to use AfC, feel free to revert my edit. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-afcnosource}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that it appears you have submitted an unsourced Wikipedia article to Articles for Creation. One of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources (see here). You also may find it helpful to take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines, and you can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-agf-assign|User}} | Hello, Template index/User talk namespace, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as User (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections.
If you are editing as part of a school assignment or class to learn about Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Student assignments, and ask your instructor to do so as well. We encourage schools to use Wikipedia in academic settings, as long as they don't interfere with other encyclopedia activities. |
| {{subst:uw-agf-multipleIPs|User}} | Hello, Template index/User talk namespace, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple IP addresses or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as User (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple IPs may be blocked from editing. Note that IPs regularly change, and you may not be intentionally doing this. Consider creating an account to avoid these accusations in the future. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-agf-sock|User}} | Hello, Template index/User talk namespace, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as User (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-aiv|Example}} | Thank you for making a report about Example (talk · contribs · block log) at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, it appears that the editor you reported may not have engaged in vandalism, or the user was not sufficiently or appropriately warned. Please note there is a difference between vandalism and unhelpful or misguided edits made in good faith. If the user continues to vandalise after a recent final warning, please re-report them. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-anew|Example}} | Thank you for making a report about Example (talk · contribs · block log) on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Reporting edit warring users is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia, resolution and removal of editors causing editing disputes to disrupt the community. However, it appears that the editor you reported may either not have engaged in edit warring nor violated the three-revert rule, the user was not sufficiently or appropriately warned, or your report was malformed. If the user continues to cause harm to other Wikipedia editors after a recent warning, please report it again. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-archive}} | Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines: "Large talk pages are difficult to read and load slowly over slow connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 kB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." – this talk page is 14.6 kB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-articlesig|Article}} | Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your edits to articles, such as the edit you made to Article. This is a common mistake to make and has probably already been corrected. Please do not sign your edits to article content, as the article's edit history serves the function of attributing contributions, so you only need to use your signature to make discussions more readable, such as on talk pages or project pages such as the Teahouse. If you would like further information about distinguishing types of pages, please see What is an article? Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-articletodraft|Article|Draft}} | Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. A page you recently created, Article, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so it has been moved to Draft where you can continue to work on it. Please consider using the Article Wizard or the Articles for Creation procedure. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read "Your first article". You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-autobiography|Article}} | Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at Article. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-autocalc|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. Your recent edit on the page Article removed or disrupted a Wikipedia feature which provides an automatic calculation such as an age based on a birth date. Please don't do this as such edits do not appear to be constructive. Also note that automatically calculated information promotes greater accuracy and reduced maintenance of content than hard coding such information. For further information on how to properly use auto-calculation templates, please see the appropriate documentation (for example, age calculation templates). If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-badcat|Article}} | Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Article, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. The category being added must already exist, and must be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-badcsd|Page}} | I noticed that you tagged Page for speedy deletion. I have removed the tag from the page because it does not meet the criterion or criteria specified. Please fully read Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion before tagging pages for speedy deletion. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-badlistentry|Article}} | Hello. Your recent edit to Article appears to have added a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-badprodblp|Article}} | I noticed that you tagged Article with {{prod blp}} for proposed deletion. I have removed the tag from the article because it does not meet the criteria specified. The placement requirements are (a) that subject is living, and (b) that the article contains no sources in any form (as references, external links, etc., reliable or otherwise) supporting any statements made about the person in the biography. Please fully read Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people before tagging articles for proposed deletion. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-bareurl|Article}} | Hello, and thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia, and in particular for adding references, as you did to Article! However, adding a bare URL is not ideal, and exposes the reference to link rot. It is preferable to use proper citation templates when citing sources, including details such as title, author, date, and any other information necessary for a bibliographic citation. Here's an example of a full citation using the {{cite web}} template to cite a web page:
which displays inline in the running text of the article as:
and displays under References as:
If you've already added one or more bare URLs to an article, there are tools available to expand them into full citations; try the reFill tool, which can resolve some bare references semi-automatically. Once again, thanks for adding references to articles. |
| {{subst:uw-biog-not|Article}} | Please do not add content which gives undue weight to some statement about a living person, as you did at Article. On Wikipedia, we take particular care over articles about living people.
New information, even if referenced, should be added only if noteworthy, relevant and documented in multiple reliable third-party sources. Wikipedia is not a newspaper and material should not be added if it is only gossip or has little longer-term importance, or if the only sourcing is tabloid journalism. If challenged, the onus is on the editor who adds the content to justify its retention. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-bite|Example}} | I noticed that a message you recently left to Example may have been unduly harsh. Please remember not to bite the newcomers. If you see others making a common mistake, consider politely pointing out what they did wrong and showing them how to correct it. It may take some time, but it helps us retain new editors. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-blog|Article}} | Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate that you enjoy using Wikipedia, please note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place for blogging or promotion. So please do not try to use Wikipedia to promote yourself or your family, band, product, or company, as you did at Article. The subjects of our articles have to meet certain notability requirements and be written from a neutral point of view. Off-topic material may be deleted at any time, even if it's on your user page. We're sorry if this message has discouraged you from editing here, but the ultimate goal of this website is to build an encyclopedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-brd}} | Your recent bold edit was reverted. Let us now discuss this on the talk page. This procedure is known as the BRD cycle. Please don't edit war by reinstating the edit. Let's see if we can find a consensus or request a third opinion if we remain in disagreement.
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| {{subst:uw-catimprove|Article}} | Hello and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I saw that an article you created, Article has not been added to any categories. According to the guideline Wikipedia:Categorization, every article should be in at least one category. Please help by adding categories to the articles you create. You can take a look at the categorization FAQ. If you need further help, ask at the Teahouse. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-circular|Article}} | Hello. I wanted to let you know that your recent edit(s) to Article have been removed because the citation you added was to another Wikipedia article or an external wiki. As discussed at our policies on circular sourcing and self-published sources, Wikipedia and other wikis should not be used in citations because they are not considered reliable sources. You are welcome to re-add the information using a better reference, perhaps from the article you originally cited. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|my talk page]]. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-coi|Article}} | Hello, Template index/User talk namespace. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Article, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-columns|Article}} | Please do not remove column formatting from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Article, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. The formatting is there to help readers comprehend articles more easily and make articles consistent across Wikipedia. Your removal of this formatting does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-controversial|Article}} | It may not have been your intention, but one of your edits, specifically one that you made on Article, may have been a change that some consider controversial. Due to this, your edits may have been reverted. When making possibly controversial changes, it is good practice to first discuss your edit on the article's talk page before making it, to gain consensus over whether or not to include the text, phrasing, etc. If you believe that the information you added was correct, please initiate that discussion. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-copying|Article|to=Article2}} | Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved content from Article into Article2. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content (here or elsewhere), Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-copying-nosource|Article copied to}} | Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved content from Article copied to into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content (here or elsewhere), Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-copyright-img|Image}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. The image Image that you uploaded appears to be copyrighted content borrowed from another website. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously: if you are the copyright holder and would like to use this image on Wikipedia, please follow the instructions given at WP:DONATEIMAGE. This will start the process to get an VRTS ticket in place on the item proving that Wikipedia has permission to use it. The image should be uploaded to Commons, not directly to Wikipedia. If you haven't created an account here, you will need to create one on Commons. This may sound complex, but hopefully if you take it step by step it will go smoothly. If you have any questions, you can leave a message on my talk page. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-c&pmove|Article|to=Article2}} | Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Article a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Article2. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-cryptic-filename|File:Example.jpg}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I would like to let you know that a file you created or significantly contributed to, File:Example.jpg, wasn't properly named. Files that aren't properly named are hard to track and may make it hard for other editors to know about the context of the image. It is suggested that, the next time you upload a file, give it a clear and descriptive name. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the help desk. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-crystal|Article}} | Thank you for your contributions. One of your recent contributions to Article has been reverted or removed, because it contains speculative or unconfirmed information about a future event. Please only add material about future events if it is verifiable, based on a reliable source.
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| {{subst:uw-csd|Article}} | Hi, Template index/User talk namespace. Thanks for patrolling new pages. I've declined your deletion request for Article, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. Please take a moment to read the new tutorial for patrollers, criteria for speedy deletion, and particularly, the section covering non-criteria. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion or proposed deletion for biographies of living persons, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-dab|Dab-page}} | Thank you for your edit to the disambiguation page Dab-page. However, please note that disambiguation pages are not articles; rather, they are meant to help readers find a specific article quickly and easily. From the disambiguation dos and don'ts, you should:
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| {{subst:uw-date|Article}} | Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Article. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.
For more information about how dates should be written on Wikipedia, please see this page. If you have any questions about this, ask me on my talk page, or place |
| {{subst:uw-dated|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. Your recent edit on the page Article introduced content which will soon become dated. Please do not do this as such content will become invalid over time, and merely becomes a maintenance burden to the project. For example, a statement written in the future tense will be invalid once the event has occurred. Likewise, a specific age of a living person will become invalid on that person's next birthday - if there is a need to add such content, use automatic age calculation templates instead. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-deadlink|Article}} | Hello, and thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia! However, you should know that it is not a good idea to remove citations or information sourced through citations simply because a link to a source is not working, as you did to Article. Dead links should not be deleted. Instead, please repair or replace the link, if possible, and ensure properly sourced information is retained. Often, a live substitute link can be found. Links not used as references, notes or citations are not as important, such as those listed in the "External links" or "Further reading" sections, but bad links in those sections should also be fixed if possible. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-directcat|Article}} | Greetings! It appears that you have been directly adding stub categories to articles such as Article. Stub categories should only be added by templates, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. These templates automatically add any relevant stub categories. Adding the category directly creates problems if there is a need at some later date to change stub category names or to split stub categories. Using stub templates is also recommended as they add prompting messages to editors reading stub articles. Your work in sorting these stub articles is very useful, but it would be even more useful and greatly appreciated if you could use stub templates to do so! Thank you. (This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, and should not be considered personal in nature.)
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| {{subst:uw-displaytitle|Article}} | Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Article a different title by using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word. This functionality is for changing the formatting and presentation of the title only, and does not work to change a page's title to something meaningfully different. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Thank you. |
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| {{subst:uw-draftmoved|Page}} | Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Page. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-dupargs|Article}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. Thank you for your recent contributions to Article. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in red at the top of the page. Thanks.
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| {{subst:uw-editsummary|Article}} | Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that your recent edit to Article did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.
The edit summary field looks like this: Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes) Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account, you can give yourself a reminder by setting Preferences → Editing → |
| {{subst:uw-elinbody|Article}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of an article. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-english|Article}} | I noticed that you have posted comments to the page Article in a language other than English. At the English-language Wikipedia, we try to use English for all comments. Posting all comments in English makes it easier for other editors to join the conversation and help you. If you cannot avoid using another language, then please provide a translation into English, if you can. If you cannot provide a translation, please go to the list of Wikipedias, look in the list for a Wikipedia that is in your language, and edit there instead of here. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-filename|Article}} | Please do not change the name of files in articles as you did to Article. It breaks the link to the file. I have corrected the mistake. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.
 It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask on my talk page, or to post at the help desk for assistance. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-firstname|Article}} | Your recent edit on the page Article inappropriately referred to a person by a first name or an honorific prefix, contrary to Wikipedia's Manual of Style regarding biographies. Normally, after the first mention of a subject's full name in the lead, the subject's first name should not normally be used again, except in special cases such as usage in quotations and titles, or as allowed by the Manual of Style. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-flag|File}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Article, added one or more potentially problematic flags or icons, and accordingly has been reverted. Please familiarize yourself with our guidelines on using flags and icons. If you meant to experiment, please use the sandbox instead. If you have any questions about these guidelines or believe that I have made a mistake, you may leave a message at my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-fuir|File}} | An image or media file, File, has been removed from your user page, user talk page, or other page because it is licensed as non-free. Wikipedia's non-free content policy states:
As a result, although users are often given a great amount of latitude in the type of content that is allowed on their user pages, it is requested that you abide by this policy and refrain from including non-free images on your user pages. Feel free, however, to add images and media files licensed under other terms. For more information, see Wikipedia's non-free content policy and an accompanying essay on the removal of non-free images. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. |
| {{subst:uw-generic|Article}} | Hello, I'm [[User:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}]]. I noticed that you made an edit to Article which did not appear to conform with our
policies and guidelines. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I have removed it for now. If you wish to practice editing, please use the {{safesubst:</noinclude>sandbox link}}. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|my talk page]]. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-gfrevert|Article}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. Thank you for your contributions to Article. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you!
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| {{subst:uw-grammar|Article}} | Hello Template index/User talk namespace. I appreciate your efforts to improve the article Article, but some of your edits have been reverted or corrected, in part because your use of English was grammatically incorrect. If you speak a different language more fluently or require assistance, please feel free to ask for help with your proposed edits on the article's talk page. Please don't use an automated tool to alter spelling or grammar if you aren't fluent enough in English to know whether those changes are correct. There are multiple users who would be glad to help you fix grammar-related issues. To find out about other useful contributions you can make to Wikipedia which don't require absolute fluency in English, see Wikipedia:Task Center. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-guideline|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions! Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Article, goes against a Wikipedia guideline. You may find it helpful to look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-howto|Article}} | Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedic reference and not a manual, textbook, or similar. While articles may include information about how their subject is or can be used by others, this information , as you included in Article, should not be written in an imperative mood (i.e. directed towards the reader) or in a "step-by-step" or "how-to" format. Such content may be better-suited to our sister projects Wikibooks and Wikiversity.
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| {{subst:uw-incompleteAFD|Article}} | Hello. I noticed that you attempted to file a deletion discussion on the article Article but did not complete the process. Please note that, when listing an article for deletion, a discussion page needs to be made for other users to discuss whether to keep or delete the article. This is typically done by following the steps listed here. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-infobox|Article}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to the page Article because you appear to have made an unexplained change to information inside an infobox, which doesn't reflect or contradicts facts contained within the article's body. The infobox is meant to summarize the key facts already present in the article itself. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source when making the change or discuss your change on the article's talk page. You can also find the information in the main written body of the article and change it there; make sure you cite the source there too. Have a look at the tutorial on citing sources if you need help with this. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox instead, and if you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-islamhon|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively, please note that people of many different faiths read Wikipedia articles. For this reason, there is a guideline about Islamic honorifics in the Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a neutral point of view and consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style by adding honorifics, as you did in Article, disturbs uniformity among articles and should only be done with a special reason. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-italicize|Article}} | Hello. I just wanted to let you know that when you add the title of a book, film, album, magazine, or TV series to an article, as you did to Article, it should be italicized by adding two single apostrophes ('') on both sides. Titles of television episodes, short stories and songs should be placed within quotation marks. More detail can be found in the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-lang|Article}} | Hello. In a recent edit to the page Article, 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 another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article 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. |
| {{subst:uw-linking|Article}} | Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, in your recent edit to Article, 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.
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| {{subst:uw-memorial|Article}} | Hello, Template index/User talk namespace. Looking at your recent contributions to Article, it appears you have been memorializing a deceased friend or relative. I'm deeply sorry for your loss, and my condolences are with you. Unfortunately, I have had to undo your edits because Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for memorials. However, there are a number of other sites on which you may memorialize the person. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me here or on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-mergerationale|Article|Article2}} | Hello Template index/User talk namespace and thank you for proposing an article merger between Article and Article2. I noticed that you didn't start a discussion or give a rationale for your proposal. Please consider adding a discussion section to the target article's talk page where you explain why you believe the merger should be performed. Doing so makes the process faster and attract more editors to the discussion. For guidance related to mergers see the help page or ask experienced mergers for advice at WikiProject Merge's talk page.
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| {{subst:uw-minor|Article}} | Hi Template index/User talk namespace! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Article that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-nc|Article}} | Thank you for your contributions. Please note that there are several conventions regarding the naming of Wikipedia articles which you should bear in mind when moving pages such as Article. First, article names should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature. Second, names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors, and for a general audience over specialists. There are several specific guidelines regarding naming of pages (by topic, by title characteristic,...) that are listed on our page regarding name conventions Wikipedia:Article titles, and in the category of naming conventions. Additionally, technical guidance regarding Wikipedia page names can be found at Help:Page name. Related guidance regarding what happens when two different names are used to refer to the same topic, or when a single name refers to several meanings that each deserve their own article, can be found at Wikipedia:Redirect and Wikipedia:Disambiguation. How and when to include a namespace qualifier in a page name is explained in Wikipedia:Namespace. Guidance on changing page names can be found in: Help:Moving a page. If you are not sure whether renaming a page is appropriate or desirable, please consult Wikipedia:Requested moves. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-notaiv|User}} | Thank you for making a report about User (talk · contribs · block log) at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism and spam is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn against, and report vandalism and spam. Your report was not a case of obvious vandalism or spam, and as a result, the user has not been blocked and the request may have been removed from the page. Next time, please use:
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| {{subst:uw-notenglish|Article}} | Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Article to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It has been listed at Pages needing translation into English, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-notenglishedit|Article}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent additions to the page Article was removed because it appeared to be in a language other than English. We can only accept English-language text on this version of Wikipedia; if you would like to contribute to a Wikipedia in another language, please visit the list of Wikipedias and see if a version of Wikipedia exists in your desired language. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-notvand|Article}} | Thank you for trying to keep Wikipedia free of vandalism. However, one or more edits you labeled as vandalism, such as the edit at Article, are not considered vandalism under Wikipedia policy. Wikipedia has a stricter definition of the word "vandalism" than common usage, and mislabeling edits as vandalism can discourage editors. Please see what is not vandalism for more information on what is and is not considered vandalism. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-notvote|Article}} | Thank you for your comments, which you added in discussion at Article. Please note that, on Wikipedia, consensus is determined by discussion, not voting, and it is the quality of the arguments that counts, not the number of people supporting a position. If your comments concerned a deletion discussion, please consider reading Wikipedia's deletion policy for a brief overview of the deletion process. If you are involved in a disagreement between editors, you may wish to consider reading Wikipedia's dispute resolution policy to learn more about how to resolve it. We hope that you decide to stay and contribute even more. Thank you!
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| {{subst:uw-offtopicdab|Article}} | Your recent edit on the page Article added material which is not related to the subject of the article. Please do not do this as such edits are not constructive. If you have verifiable and notable material to add to Wikipedia about a subject with a similar name that is not related to the topic of the existing article, then another article should be created or requested. The titles of articles with the same names are distinguished according to Wikipedia's disambiguation guideline. If this edit was a test, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-offtopic|Article}} | Your recent edit on the page Article added material which is not related to the subject of the article. Please do not do this as such edits are not constructive. If you like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-preview|Article}} | Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Article, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it.
It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. |
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| {{subst:uw-refimprove|Article}} | Thanks for contributing to the article Article. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-rfcn|Example}} | Thank you for making a report about Example (talk · contribs) at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names. Unfortunately your report has been removed due to it not meeting the rules for discussion. Please always remember to discuss the username with the user in question before taking it to RFCN (this can be done using the {{uw-username}} template) and only file a request for comment if the user does not agree that their username is against the username policy or the user has continued to edit after you have expressed your concern. Please feel free to readd the request once the requirements have been fulfilled. Thank you.
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A request has been filed for the title of Article to be added to the title blacklist. This has been done because the article appears to be a recreation, under a different title, of an article which is itself currently protected against recreation. Please note that titles used to circumvent the protection policy are often given the same level of protection as the original title the author is trying to circumvent, or are added to the title blacklist. If you feel that the topic of the article meets our notability guidelines, please request a deletion review or use a request for unprotection instead. Please note that repeated recreation of an article against a consensus to delete is considered disruptive and may get you blocked from editing. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-selfrevert|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for reverting your recent experiment with the page Article. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to the encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead, as someone could see your edit before you revert it. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-sigdesign|Reason|Additional text}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that your signature design might cause problems for some readers. This is because Additional text If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines and policy on customising signatures. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-summary2|Article}} | Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-tagged|Article}} |  You recently tagged Article as a candidate for cleanup, but left no indication on the talk page as to what improvements you thought were needed. Could you please do so? Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-tilde|Article}} | Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, such as at Article, (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:
This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-toppost|Article}} | Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments on Article were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved. In the future you can use the "New section" link in the top right. For more details see the talk page guidelines. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-translation|fromArticle}} | Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you translated text from fromArticle to another page. While you are welcome to translate Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the contributor(s) of the original article. When translating from a foreign-language Wikipedia article, this is supplied at a minimum in an edit summary on the page where you add translated content, identifying it as a translation and linking it to the source page. Sample wording for this is given here. If you forgot, or were not aware of this requirement, attribution must be given retroactively, for example:
Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution. It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-uaa|User}} | Thank you for making a report about User (talk · contribs) at Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention (UAA). However, it appears that the editor you reported may not have had an inappropriate username, or the username was not inappropriate enough to warrant an immediate block. UAA is for username policy violations that are serious enough to warrant an immediate block. General username policy violations should first be discussed with the user on their talk page. A helpful template to do just that is {{subst:Uw-username}}. Note that a username request for comment can be filed if the user disagrees that their name is against the username policy, or has continued to edit after you have expressed your concern. You may find the UAA instructions helpful, and I'd recommend reading them over prior to making future reports to UAA. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-unattribcc|Article}} | Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you have added Creative Commons licensed text to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as User. You are welcome to import appropriate Creative Commons licensed content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Compatibly licensed sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any Creative Commons content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-unenc|Article}} | Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions to User. While the content of your edit may be true, I have removed it because its depth or nature of detail are not consistent with our objectives as an encyclopedia. I recognize that your edit was made in good faith and hope you will familiarize yourself with what Wikipedia is not so we may collaborate in the future. Thank you!
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| {{subst:uw-unreliable|Article}} | Thank you for contributing to the article User. However, please do not use unreliable sources such as blogs, wikis, personal websites, and websites and publications with a poor reputation for checking the facts or with no editorial oversight. These sources may express views that are widely acknowledged as pushing a particular point-of-view, sometimes even extremist, being promotional in nature, or relying heavily on rumors and personal opinions. One of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. If you require further assistance, please look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-usertalk}} | Hello, Template index/User talk namespace. This is your user talk page; the purpose of this page is notification and communication with other Wikipedia editors. It is not a workspace for articles in progress or for self-promotion. Please use your user sandbox or the draft article space to practice editing or to create new articles. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-userspacenoindex|Page}} | Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you have modified your user subpage at Page so as to be indexed by external search engines.
I have removed indexing of this page, because user pages are normally not indexed. Pages in user space are not a personal homepage. Their purpose is to help editors collaborate in building Wikipedia. If you believe that indexing of this page would serve such a purpose, please leave a note here and we can discuss it. You may continue to edit the page, but please do not restore indexing without discussion. Thank you. |
| {{subst:uw-vgscope|Article}} | Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to Article, but please remember that Wikipedia isn't a place for walkthroughs, cheats, lists of game content or detailed instructions on how to play a game. For more information please read the video game guideline. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-warn|Article}} | Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Article: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-whitewashing|Article}} | Hello, I'm Ahecht. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to the page Article because it appeared to have removed negative or disparaging information that was correctly sourced. Please note that Wikipedia has a neutral point of view and must cover controversies relating to particular topics as well as positive aspects; removal of accurate negative information from an article could be seen as POV pushing. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User talk:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|my talk page]]. Thanks!
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| {{subst:uw-wizard|Article}} | The page Article does not meet the criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia, and I have tagged it for deletion. Before you create new articles, try the Article Wizard. The wizard will guide you through the process and help you make sure your article is appropriate. Thank you.
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| {{subst:uw-wrongsummary|Article}} | Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Article has an edit summary that appears to be inadequate, inaccurate, or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you.
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| {{subst:Empty edit request|Article}} | Hello. An edit request you recently made to Article was empty and has been removed. Please see planning an edit request for more information on how to prepare a proper request. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|my talk page]]. Thank you,
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| {{subst:Unclear edit request|Article}} | Hello. An edit request you recently made to Article was not understandable and has been removed. Please see planning an edit request for more information on how to place a proper request. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|my talk page]]. Thank you, ~~~~
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| {{subst:Improper AfC redirect or category request|Article}} | Hi {{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}, I'm Ahecht, and I noticed you made an edit to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects or Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Categories. Your request was either empty, had elements missing, or the edit did not belong there, so for now it has been removed. If you would just like to experiment, please use the sandbox instead. When you feel ready to file a new request, you can simply click one of these buttons:
If your aim was to create a new article, I recommend you use the Article wizard, which has the option to create a draft version. Please make sure you also read the Introduction to Wikipedia and Your first article. If you have any questions, you are always welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. |
