142.116.202.86

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Hello 142.116.202.86, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Gaels 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, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:23, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Gaels, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. * While putting quotation marks around the copied content technically takes care of some of the issues you've been warned about, there are still problems with the POV push and sourcing here, as well as using external links in the body. The edit you just repeated, IP, is too similar to what you've already been warned about by another admin. - CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 18:07, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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• What? I entered completely sourced information, taken directly from a valid academic source. Everything I entered is backed up by the genetic studies in the source provided. There is NO POV push. The only POV pushing is you. I entered a valid summary of information from a perfectly valid source. 142.116.202.86 (talk) 18:19, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Take your discussions about improving the article to article talk. I am not interested in debating your POV on user talk. - CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 18:48, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Please stop adding badly-formatted content, as you did on Gaels. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You are not properly formatting your additions, and you should take this to article talk. - CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 18:51, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Please explain how it is not "properly" formatted. It is paraphrased in a perfectly acceptable manner, with all the information taken directly from the studies. This is really ridiculous. I think you are only making these claims because you have a personal objection to the enormous evidence provided by genetic studies. 142.116.202.86 (talk) 18:53, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Gaels of Scotland. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. You are destroying an article, not merging the contents The Banner talk 20:00, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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What is wrong with you? Did you ever read the agreement to merge the article with Gaels? Most of the Gaels of Scotland article is original research and uncited. There is nothing there to move to the Gaels article. 142.116.202.86 (talk) 20:03, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Gaels of Scotland, you may be blocked from editing. You really seem not to understand that "merging" is about moving content into another article. Merging is not the same as liquidating an article and destroying its contents as you are doing. The Banner talk 20:16, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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1) You are not an administrator. 2) You are committing vandalism all over by reverting without explanation. 3) It was agreed in the Afd for Gaels of Scotland to merge with the Gaels article, but not keep really anything from the article because it is almost entirely original research and has no valid citations. 142.116.202.86 (talk) 20:22, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Irish people shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make personal attacks on other people, as you did at Talk:Irish people. Comment on content, not on fellow editors. The Banner talk 20:58, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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October 2019

It may not have been your intention, but one of your edits, specifically one that you made on Irish people, may have introduced material that some consider controversial. Due to this, your edits may have been reverted. When adding material that may be controversial, it is good practice to first discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them, 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. The Banner talk 13:59, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

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There is nothing entered there that was controversial. The findings of highly respected academic studies from the foremost experts in the field is not "controversial". You personally finding something controversial just because you have an unqualified disagreement with it is not a reason to make reversion according to WP. 142.116.202.86 (talk) 14:02, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Canary Islanders. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Angus1986 (talk) 17:40, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 21:59, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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