Joesmithroots

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Concern regarding Draft:Loofball

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:03, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Loofball

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:53, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Loofball moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Loofball, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. PRAXIDICAE🌈 23:10, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Joesmithroots! Your additions to Loofball have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 23:54, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

July 2022

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Loofball. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:34, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Loofball for deletion

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PRAXIDICAE🌈 12:27, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 3

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I have removed the said link. Thanks. Joesmithroots (talk) 10:17, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joesmithroots. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

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 ~~~~}}.  Bbb23 (talk) 21:59, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Joesmithroots (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Hi. I just saw your message. Please review this decision as I have no multiple accounts. I've been editing on Wikipedia using my three devices i.e. tablet, smartphone and laptop with only one account (Joesmithroots) for over a year and half now. I respect Wikipedia policies and rules and will always adhere to them. Thank you! Joesmithroots (talk) 23:22, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Based on the CU results, the likelihood is you have not used other accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:38, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Oh thank you so much! Joesmithroots (talk) 21:48, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

August 2022

Your edits to User talk:Udoxfarm constitute canvassing, which is not permitted. Please do not solicit votes in a discussion.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Oh I was only trying to notify the user, as I sometimes invite other editors to review or reassess my edits. Nevertheless, thank you! Joesmithroots (talk) 01:41, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Loofball

A tag has been placed on Category:Loofball requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

WP:C2F, sole article is already in all this category's parents

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Note that the article page itself is NOT threatened by deletion, only the category of which it is the sole article. Grutness...wha? 14:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)