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Image subject should always face the page text whenever possible - FlightTime (open channel) 21:31, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

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Speedy deletion nomination of Elizabeth Cook (Anchor)

Hello Clarities,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Elizabeth Cook (Anchor) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Meatsgains (talk) 01:49, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

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Inappropriate editing

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Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at MarkV-A1, you may be blocked from editing. Zazpot (talk) 01:58, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Robot combat. Zazpot (talk) 01:59, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Zazpot (talk) 02:06, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your recent edit to Hold your horses, 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. Zazpot (talk) 02:14, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at Genghis Khan. Zazpot (talk) 02:17, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at Wired (magazine). Zazpot (talk) 02:24, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Headset (audio). Zazpot (talk) 02:32, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Staring. Zazpot (talk) 02:40, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Who's Watching the Kids?. Zazpot (talk) 02:46, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at Sewage treatment. Zazpot (talk) 02:57, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at Manhattan Project. Zazpot (talk) 03:02, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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Dear User:Zazpot, First; I would like to really apologize for taking much of your time in order to trace back all my wiki errors. As you can -obviously- see, I'm still relatively new here, and still learning a lot of things on the go (many tips from other users has helped me as well!). I've gone through all the points you mentioned above, and I'll do everything in my faculty to avoid them from happening again. Well, to be honest, I had a kinda slow day at work today, so I guess I ended up doing making many edits in a short period of time - on my phone ... and you can probably imagine how that goes :))

Again, I really appreciate the tips above, and please do keep an eye on my contribution log to spot any future -hopefully none- mistakes. Yours truly. --Clarities (talk page) 04:02, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate your reply. However, some of your subsequent edits have been problematic. For instance this edit has the inscrutable edit summary maybe 14.35z? What is that supposed to mean? How does it relate to the edit? (Not at all, as far as I can tell.) This one's edit summary says, I've always thought we had an article on this topic, which again does not help other editors to infer the nature of your edit. And here you can see an example of another user needing to undo an edit you made that was a WP:MOS violation (and that, also, lacked an edit summary). This still looks like WP:DISRUPTIVE behaviour.

I hope the good intentions that you expressed above are genuine. If you wish to live up to them, please slow down and think carefully about edits before making them. Wikipedia will be better served by having a small number of good quality edits from you that don't need to be reverted, than by having a firehose of low-quality edits. Quality over quantity, in other words. Zazpot (talk) 19:13, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for continuing to make disruptive edits after multiple final warnings. Some of your recent edits, in fact, appear to be little better than vandalism: see [1], [2]. Any future disruption will result in longer blocks. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  SuperMarioMan (Talk) 02:10, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

• Expanding on the above, there is no need to go through articles adding spaces to section header code (example here), since it has no effect on the way the headers are rendered. Please also ensure that your edit summaries accurately describe the changes you have made – summaries like the one in the link above are not helpful to other editors. SuperMarioMan (Talk) 02:40, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Response to Admin

What the hell, man??! What do I do to deserve this? :/ --Clarities (talk page) 02:35, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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