June 2020

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List reorganization

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A major edit such as reorganizing an entire list with hundreds of entries needs to be discussed first, as there is clear long-standing consensus for the list organization. And the reason for that is that these rail systems serve a city, not a country, so the city is the most important thing. oknazevad (talk) 15:07, 6 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

July 2020

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August 2020

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Parliament House

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Hi, are you going to create Central Vista Redevelopment Project? We typically do not template link redlinker like this. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 11:01, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Your draft article, Draft:List of degrees at Oxford University

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Your edit on Table of keyboard shortcuts

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Hi, I undid your edit on Table of keyboard shortcuts, because the shortcut did not work for my keyboard layout (German). Indeed, in the wikipedia article there is a description of the shortcut with the note that it is not available on all keyboard layouts. Because the shortcuts in the list should work for all keyboard layouts, I removed your edit. --ElLutzo (talk) 20:36, 2 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

July 2021

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Speedy deletion nomination of Flags of Argentine Provinces

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@Crystallizedcarbon: The page may not be displaying anything, as it was made today, so it is new. Here's a link to show that it has content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_Argentine_Provinces Ranamode (talk) 19:26, 16 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
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December 2021

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April 2022

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As you want I'll go into detail.
First of all, there were several grammar mistakes, repeated sentences and redundant details in the article. I corrected the grammar mistakes, removed repeated texts and got rid of redundant sentences from the article.
Second, multiple templates were describing the contents of the article to be written like a story instead of being encyclopedic, and there were a lack of citations. I proceeded to make the article sound less like a story and more encyclopedic and removed content which couldn't have their sources verified. However, I have been unsuccessful in finding citations for the article, so I decided to do whatever I did as a temporary measure.
I hope that this is detailed enough for you, and would request for my edits to be restored if possible. Flag Mechanic (talk) 17:45, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the description; I have mostly restored the content. Please use ping (simply with @:) so other users are alerted when you mention them. Kiran_891 (TALK) 18:50, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Flags of country subdivisions for deletion

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List of country subdivision flags in South America moved to draftspace

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I took the South American entries from the List of country subdivision flags and made a separate article specifically for South America. I am working on separating the main list by continent as it is too big. This type of action was previously done for the List of City flags as the entries became too much for one article. Do you still want me to cite the flags, even thought they are just copied and pasted? For the nth time (talk) 17:53, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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List of country subdivision flags in Oceania moved to draftspace

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Nomination of List_of_country_subdivision_flags_in_Africa for deletion

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List of country subdivision flags in Africa moved to draftspace

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June 2024

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  Please explain your contributions using a descriptive edit summary. Changing information on Wikipedia (such as numbers and dates) without explanation, as you did at List of country subdivision flags in Oceania, may be confused with vandalism. Thank you. Alexphangia Talk 08:16, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please don't remove sourced information. This will make the article unsourced again, and it may move to draft. Alexphangia Talk 08:17, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I kept the sources as much as I possibly could, also I explained my actions in an entry on the article's talk page. For the nth time (talk) 11:31, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of country subdivision flags in Oceania (June 22)

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