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December 2021

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Please use edit summaries?

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Kouprey

Can you add a picture of this animal in it's page? The old one is outdated not allowed to use elsewhere. It'd be a great help if u can. Thank u Ishan87 (talk) 13:19, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Listing of Template:Country data VShojo at templates for discussion

Template:Country data VShojo has been listed at templates for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:04, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Country data VShojo

Please do not create hoaxes on Wikipedia, as you did at Template:Country data VShojo. Doing so is considered to be vandalism and is prohibited. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method would be to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia—and then to correct them if possible. If you would like to make test edits, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges.

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January 2022

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February 2022

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March 2022

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Sweden national football team. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Thank you. TylerBurden (talk) 09:13, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at India, you may be blocked from editing. — DaxServer (t · m · c) 12:35, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Geoffrey Kizito. Giant Snowman 08:04, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

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Unblock me please.

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Request reason:

I just want to edit again. Dorrough618 (talk) 08:12, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Geoffrey Kizito. Giant Snowman 16:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May 2022

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Andressinha. 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.

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Edit at Mark De Man

Hi. Per WP:NOTBROKEN [[Centre-back]] and [[right-back]] are to be preferred over [[Defender (association football)|centre-back]] and [[Defender (association football)|right-back]]. Also, going forward please be sure to use an Help:Edit summary to make it easier for other editors to understand your changes. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 07:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Then why don't you look at your spelling first? "Centre-back" is spelled with a dash!" Please stay WP:CIVIL. Like you I prefer the spelling with the hyphen but both spellings are valid. Thanks for improving the wording at Mark De Man. Robby.is.on (talk) 08:01, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice. Dorrough618 (talk) 10:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Happy editing, Robby.is.on (talk) 10:29, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NOTBROKEN also applies to linking "striker": [[striker (association football)|striker]] is preferable over [[forward (association football)|striker]]. I've fixed this at Michael Chopra. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 09:44, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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MOS:OVERLINK

Hi there. Thanks for improving Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer). Please be aware of MOS:OVERLINK which says to not link "names of subjects with which most readers will be at least somewhat familiar", for example countries like the United States. I have removed the link at Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer). Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 08:25, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Short description

In your change you added Zimbabwe; I don't know your reasoning, but short description is simply a navigation aid for mobile devices, therefore it's not necessary to add a 1980s name change, IMO. Incidentally, I see you made minor changes to Isle of Man (probaby I wrote it) - in 1980 I met a young lady in IoM who'd left her home country, not wanting to stay on under the then-new regime, and was travelling the world. A couple of months earlier I briefly worked for a man who had two nephew/niece wards, whose farmer parents had been butchered (machetes - the kids told me). They escaped as they were at boarding school. Thanks for the memories! rgds,--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 12:41, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bro... Dorrough618 (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

July 2022

Hello, I'm StartOkayStop. I noticed that you recently removed content from Dahomey without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. StartOkayStop (talk) 04:38, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice. You see, there existed two states called "Dahomey", one was a kingdom and the other was a republic. Both of them are now part of modern Benin. People often confuse these two Dahomeys and think that only the kingdom or the republic was the true Dahomey. So, I decided to make the "Dahomey" page a disambiguation page, saying that it may refer to either the kingdom or the republic, to avoid future confusions. Dorrough618 (talk) 04:52, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

July 2022

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August 2022

Hello, I'm FunIsOptional. I noticed that you recently removed content from Pau FC without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Fun Is Optional (talk) 06:07, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't do anything wrong, mate. I just removed these sections because they have nothing to do with the club at all.

Dorrough618 (talk) 06:10, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Pau FC, 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. Fun Is Optional (talk) 06:11, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]