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Thank you. I probably didn’t do it right, so thanks for not yelling at me! If I ever make any changes, I will have gone through all of the helps you posted for me first. And if this message is rambling and poorly constructed, I just had surgery yesterday and I'm still kind of a mess lol Heavy10mm (talk) 13:04, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Electricity

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I agreed with your comments on Talk:Electricity and removed that section from the article. —BillC ^talk 13:01, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

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So what does this mean? I've been shut down for asking a question? Heavy10mm (talk) 17:28, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Heavy10mm, it's just a standard precautionary notice. Read the text carefully: it specifically says that the message being relayed isn't meant to imply anything about your edits. These sorts of notices are posted on the talk pages of even the most experienced editors on Wikipedia, periodically, if they edit in those subject areas. It's an official "heads up" that the topic you've chosen to edit is subject to discretionary sanctions, which means that administrators have broad authority in issuing sanctions for what they think is potentially disruptive behaviour. These DS notices exist for a variety of subjects that the community has deemed are problematic, such as various genocides and their denials, Eastern Europe, Israel/Palestine, India/Pakistan, et cetera. You aren't being shut down. Symmachus Auxiliarus (talk) 06:30, 25 October 2020 (UTC)