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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Andhra Pradesh. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 10:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Carnatic music article moves

Greetings. A few days ago you moved the various Carnatic music articles to new names (Karnataka rather than Carnatic) without having proposed the change and had discussions on them, and without consulting the Wikipedia policy on article names. That policy states that the correct name for articles on the English language Wikipedia is the most common english language word used for the thing - usually the most common one in US usage, sometimes the most common one in use in England, but in either case the one most native speakers know it as here. See WP:COMMONNAME within the wider policy which is this specific point.

Editors are supposed to follow the policy in WP:MOVE in moving articles. We empower users with enough experience to do article moves in the technical sense. However, before moving, the naming standards and whether a move will be controversial need to be considered. Normally proposed renames/moves are discussed on article talk pages, on the requested moves pages, or by asking administrators or experienced users to review. In this case it appears you didn't check the article names policy, didn't ask on talk pages, on the requested moves pages, or ask anyone else.

Another administrator has reversed the page moves that you did. Those are back to where they started.

I think you meant well; I understand how many languages have better transliterations or local words that mainstream English has altered in some way. However, the policy here is to make the names the most commonly used ones. And there is process around article moves to try and catch individual mistakes or confusion. I hope that you will remember that Wikipedia isn't just an encyclopedia you can edit, but that it's an encyclopedia we all edit together.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 20:33, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

List of Karnataka classical music listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect List of Karnataka classical music. Since you had some involvement with the List of Karnataka classical music redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:01, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Challakere taluk

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August 2017

Your addition to Jwalamalini temple has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. I have also reverted your edits at Narasimharajapura for similar reasons. Hitro talk 20:06, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

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November 2017

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Karnataka, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 01:01, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia and copyright

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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.  << FR ^(mobileUndo) 11:19, 18 March 2019 (UTC)