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Amber Heard

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March 2020

See my talk page for help with your content and sources. Isaidnoway (talk) 17:04, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, Otis the Texan,

Please do not create articles because you are bored. This is vandalism and can lead to a loss of editing privileges. Why don't you create yourself a blog and you can put whatever you want on it and you don't have to worry about your work being deleted. Just a suggestion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:30, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppet tagging

Hello, Otis the Texan,

Do not tag user pages stating that editors are sockpuppets based on your suspicions. This task is left to checkusers and SPI clerks. I don't tag these pages and I'm an administrator. Sometimes checkusers want to tag the user page, other times they don't want to give the sockpuppet extra attention. It's their call, not yours or mine.

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Thanks for letting me know. However what these users are doing on the article about the German town of Tonisvort is unacceptable. Multiple users keep posting pictures of a guy named Amir Dumberger and Aboudi Abdullah and add them as if their pictures are flag and coats of arms of Tonisvort. They also keep writing that one of them is the mayor. Their vandalism of Tonisvort keeps getting undone, but without any of their accounts being blocked, Tonisvort keeps getting vandalized over and over. This has been happening since January. I simply don’t see any solution except getting them blocked and suspected of sock puppetry. If this doesn’t happen, Tonisvort will just continue getting vandalized for years and years. But as you were mentioning that it is not my or your job to suspect them of sock puppetry, would you be able to let a checkuser and SPI clerk know about this issue, so that the article about Tonisvort doesn’t just keep getting vandalized over and over and other articles also don’t get vandalized by them. Otis the Texan (talk) 03:38, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

In Guezzam

Hi,

While checking pages with broken reference names, I came across In Guezzam and saw this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Guezzam&diff=946580702&oldid=946567281 you made, it adds reference names that are not defined. Do you still know these reference names and can you correct them? Difool (talk) 01:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

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December 2021

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:40, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Like I told you earlier this year, if you want to make "jokes", get your own blog. This is inappropriate conduct on Wikipedia. You have a talk page full of warning messages and you have very little rope left. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:43, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello, This nonsense content was only meant to be temporary. I made my draft with the real content about the Nigerian town. I just thought it would creative and funny to have the nonsense version and the speedy deletion box in the page's view history. I was going to quickly remove the silly content and paste my draft, however the article was deleted before I could do that. I have since recreated the article but only the real and appropriate version, which is about the Nigerian town of Pindiga.--Otis the Texan (talk) 02:59, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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Zellers

Hello, Otis the Texan,

Regarding this article, and others, we never would change a category based on projected changes in the future. So many things can happen between now and 2023, plans can change and expand or retract, funding can fall through, another company takes over the plan instead, we could have another pandemic and plans are delayed, lots of things can happen between the announcement of a business change and the plan actually occurring. And this doesn't have to do with the reliability of the source for the announcement but just the fact that situations can change drastically over time. This situation is not specific to this article, over even to businesses, but to all sorts of projected outcomes in articles. On music articles, for example, edit wars can break out over disputes about when an album is announced to be released and when it is actually released. You can read more about this phenomena at WP:CRYSTALBALL. Thank you! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:32, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

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