Hans RayBan

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Hans RayBan. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Nick Moyes (talk) 12:16, 28 March 2019 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

Brunei block

Brunei is a semi-protected article (the lock symbol at upper right) meaning that very new editors are blocked from editing. It is a low-level anti-vandalism precaution. Your approach - leaving a statement and a URL at Talk, was the right thing to do. Wiht more of an editing history you will gain more rights. David notMD (talk) 01:07, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Hans RayBan! You created a thread called Introduction at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Deleting sources

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I have challenged several of your edits to Heal's, please respond there about these. As is common practice, I have looked at some of your other edits. In JCB Co., Ltd. you deleted several references on the basis that they are primary sources. Primary sources are better than no sources, and in my view you should not have deleted these but instead tagged them with {{Primary source inline}}. I have now done this. In Made.com you deleted a reference to a BBC News source. This is a reliable source that names the founder of the business. Please do not delete sources without a good reason, if they are poor sources it is usually better to tag them, possibly with one of the Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates. I have not yet reviewed your other edits to Made.com. Regards, Verbcatcher (talk) 05:14, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

And please don't be too quick to delete what you describe as 'Black hat spam links'. These may be good-faith attempts to add sources by inexperienced editors. Please follow the link and if it is a useful source convert it to a conventional citation, tagging it if appropriate. Verbcatcher (talk) 05:33, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Distributed (company) for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bbarmadillo (talk) 22:08, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for making personal attacks towards other editors. 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 ~~~~}}.  -- Dlohcierekim 11:07, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Note-- any admin can unblock as needed w/o asking first. A ping would be nice.-- Dlohcierekim 11:39, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

November 2019

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines.

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 ~~~~}}.  MER-C 12:32, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Draft:Nexus Underwriting Management

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The page Draft:Nexus Underwriting Management has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. kingboyk (talk) 10:33, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

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