Otanes

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Hello, Otanes, and Welcome to Wikipedia!   

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

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Otanes, good luck, and have fun. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 03:53, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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Hello! Otanes, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 15:52, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Navigational templates

Hi, you might want to be aware of WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 00:50, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zoroastrianism

The article Zoroastrianism you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Zoroastrianism for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of BlackfullaLinguist -- BlackfullaLinguist (talk) 13:20, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

April 2021

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Zoroastrianism, 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. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:25, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

On aspersions in edit summaries

I post this because I noticed this edit summary. Please see WP:ASPERSION and WP:SUMMARYNO: accusing editors of tendentious editing and "defacing" (almost an vandalism accusation) should be avoided in edit summaries and article talk pages (WP:FOC). On the other hand, it's possible to warn users on their talk page (WP:WARN) and to report them at an administrator noticeboard as necesary. Often, before that is necessary, discussions at the article's talk page, or on other relevant noticeboards are sufficient. —PaleoNeonate – 23:31, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

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