John Pontifex

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September 2022

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Battle of Vukovar, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Joy [shallot] (talk) 19:28, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Sixth Bus (2022) moved to draftspace

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Thanks John Pontifex (talk) 09:11, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

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June 2023

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October 2023

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please don't wikilink years or add periods to captions if the caption is a sentence fragment. DrKay (talk) 11:58, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. --John Pontifex (talk) 17:34, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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November 2023

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your recent edit to Battle of Vukovar, 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. Please review Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions for more information as well. Joy (talk) 12:40, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please do not wikilink years as you did here: [1][2][3]. Note the guidance at WP:YEARLINK. DrKay (talk) 21:17, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Image dos and don'ts}

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October 2024

Hello, your edit on Template:Largest cities of Croatia was removed (reverted) due to low quality image you put for Zagreb, and also unnecessary change. Thank you SatelliteChange (talk) 16:50, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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