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Very Bad Things
editPlease see WP:NPOV. This is not a place to give your review of the article. TKE 06:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
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Capitalization conventions
editI noticed that you added the headings "Family Life" and "Relationship With Veronica" to Logan Echolls. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization), I've changed these to "Family life" and "Relationship with Veronica", using sentence case — that is, only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized. Please consider this in your future edits, and thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:37, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
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Please do not remove information from Wikipedia without reason; it is considered vandalism. If you can explain your proposed changes to the article on the appropriate talk page and provide links for your claims of criticism, it would be appreciated. Thanks! -Umdunno 21:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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The Simpsons shorts
editHi. You added some information to The Simpsons shorts article. The information was itself interesting, but I need to know a source for it. I have reverted your edit for now and once you can cite a source, it will be put back into the article again. See also Talk:The Simpsons shorts. If you have any questions then please ask there. --Maitch 21:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Image:Equus_col4_hires.jpg
editThis image [1] that you uploaded has no sourde infomation. Please provide it soon, or the image will be deleted in 48 hours.Dalejenkins 22:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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Sally Floyd edits
editHere's what I said at the SF Talk Page; posting here to be sure you see it:
- Four things: (1) please do not confuse my good faith edits, aimed at keeping the entry informative and objective, with vandalism. I have never vandalized the wikipedia, nor have I used it as a platform to express my personal opinions, which is what I believe that you are engaged in doing. My edits were aimed, as I stated in my summary, at making the article clearer; providing a full description of the character's appearances; correcting errors of grammar, spelling, and sense; and making the descriptions concise. (2) I have no problem with fan reaction, or incorporating fan reaction into the entry: we just need to provide evidence for it. Fan reaction is "nebulous" when it is invoked without any citations to the presumed reaction appearing in the entry. (3) I'm sorry, but you cannot deploy a writer's parody (of himself!) as evidence of his, or anyone else's, opinion: no rules or conventions of evidence that I know of would allow that. (4) You need to think seriously about interacting civilly with our fellow editors: if you're looking for a place to rant about characters you hate, and engage in verbal fisticuffs with people who disagree with you, do it at your personal blog, not on the wikipedia. Given your stance, which you state yourself as being implaccable, ("I'll ... change the article [sic] "no matter what"), I think it makes sense to bring in a neutral reader to assess the situation.--Galliaz (talk) 14:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
That 90's show
editPlease don't make large edits like that without discussing on the talk page and without an edit summary. It's starting to look like vandalism. For example why did you remove the fully referenced Back to the Future reference? And why does there need to be a separate guest star section? No other Simpson article has it. And the continuity is original research and not notable since the Simpsons often change their continuity and aren't consistent.--The Dominator (talk) 04:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
3RR
editPlease refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly, as you are doing at That 90's Show. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you.
And read WP:NOR too. -- Scorpion0422 04:12, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to user:Dominik92, you will be blocked from editing. --The Dominator (talk) 04:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Even if it is important, Wikipedia shouldn't be saying so unless it has been covered in a reliable source, specifically in reference to the episode. —Random832 04:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
June 2008
editPlease do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Death Note, without explaining the valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 17:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
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This was unnecessary. AniMate 04:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Chuck Austen
editWhile I really disagree with your edit in the Chuck Austen page (it consisted of cutting the text from 23k to 8k, plus a virtual disappearance of every inline citation in violation of WP:CITE, and I initially gave a warning), I gave the article a workover. The article is now 13k, with much of the admittedly bloated Chuck Austen quotes gone, and better sourced. I also got some info on "The Eternal", which you requested. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 17:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Emma Frost
editHi there! I temporarily reverted your edits to Emma Frost due to some issues I noted on the talk:Emma Frost page. I do agree with some of the improvements you made (specifically the Publication History changes) but the others may require further discussion and improvement before they can be added. As an editor, I'm sure you know that none of your edits are permanently gone, as the changes can be retrieved from the page history archives if necessary later.Luminum (talk) 17:50, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Blocked
editHello. I've blocked you due to this edit. See WP:APB for more information. -- zzuuzz (talk) 23:08, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
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