Laurie Lind

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Laurie Lind, good luck, and have fun. – Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Ford Capri

I appreciate your contributions to this article, but unfortunately the recent ones have been unhelpful. For example, your changes to the performance figures for the 3.0 Capri do not reflect the source in the article, and the image you swapped into the Mk II's infobox was inferior to the one that had previously been in it as it showed less of the car. Please make sure you use reliable sources for any changes (and cite them), and I'd recommend leaving the images alone as they're all pretty decent right now. Thank you. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 20:47, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Ford Capri, you may be blocked from editing. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 22:30, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 10:46, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Please explain

Why you removed the image again here? I know it's not a fantastic one, but it is free, and it is better than nothing. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:58, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Sorry , I was editing something earlier in the infobox and must've forgot to ad it again :) -laurie

Unlicensed images

Please stop uploading these, or at least discuss it at Commons. If you don't, you're likely to be indefinitely blocked there until you do discuss it. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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Awful formatting

I notice that you are very enthusiastic, but please could you take the time in the future to correctly format your edits? I guess you are using a phone to edit, with less than stellar results. I suggest reading WP:STYLE carefully, and perhaps checking how other articles are written and formatted. Random capitalization and stray spaces everwhere is just the beginning of your problems. Thanks,  Mr.choppers | ✎  01:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Indeed often edit from my phone

-Laurie

I re-formatted your response, which in itself indicates that you did not read my request. A typed single space does not create a new line in WP, it is customary to begin a response with an indent (":") so as to make conversations legible. I suggest you start editing from a computer if you cannot use your phone to type properly. Lastly, please use the Show preview button - that way you can repair things before saving, making it easier to follow what is going on with your edits.  Mr.choppers | ✎  12:36, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice , I do use the preview quite a lot , pretty much always before I make an edit in fact, I am quite new to Wikipedia but I try my best!

-Laurie

Better. Do try to avoid adding random spaces before commas, too (nag, nag, nag). It's just that otherwise other editors will have to follow you around and clean everything up. This gets pretty boring and often your edits (which add a lot of useful content too) are at risk of being deleted wholesale instead.  Mr.choppers | ✎  18:21, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:27, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

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...to you and yours, from Canada's Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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