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Believe I owe you an apology

If so, I deeply regret my error and ask that you consider me and no one else accountable. I urge that you return to Wikipedia and not hold this unfortunate experience against what is usually a wonderful and worthwhile experience. But protecting the project from abuse evokes a vigilance that, sometimes, goes astray. As you will note here, I have asked that corrective action be taken with respect to your editing account. Again, I am truly sorry for my mistake at your expense. FactStraight (talk) 06:39, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Unblocked with apology

Following your request to ArbCom, I have reviewed your block and my own handling of one of your unblock requests. There is indeed compelling evidence that you are not LouisPhilippeCharles, and I should have realized this when I saw your unblock request instead of letting my annoyance with that other user cloud my judgement. I hope you will forgive my heavy-handedness, and I wish you luck with your future editing. Sincerely, Favonian (talk) 14:03, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

A Belated Welcome!

Sorry for the belated welcome, but the cookies are still warm!

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April 2011

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. AdvertAdam ^talk 07:27, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

My response

Here are some lines from the blocking policy of Wikipedia:

Blocking is a serious matter. The community expects that blocks will be made with good reasons only, based upon reviewable evidence and reasonable judgment, and that all factors that support a block are subject to independent peer review if requested.

Administrators must supply a clear and specific block reason which indicates why a user was blocked. Block reasons should avoid the use of jargon as much as possible so that blocked users may better understand them. Administrators should also notify users when blocking them by leaving a message on their user talk page unless they have a good reason not to. It is often easier to explain the reason for a block at the time than it is to explain a block well after the fact.

In your short message I didn't see any specific references to my so-called disruptive editing. Be specific on what was disruptive according to you.

I almost only edit with giving sources. When I don't give sources, the edit is a minor one in which I try to make an article clearer or when I remove spelling mistakes.

I've already been accused of being a sockpuppet once by an overhasty administrator and after taking it to the arbitration committee, they agreed that I was innocent and got apologies from those involved. They also told me that something like that would not happen again.

Before you start threatening people with blocking, you should at least specify what I did wrong, because I edit very conscientiously, and almost exclusively edit with citing reliable sources.

Good day to you and greetings, Peaceingalaxy (talk) 07:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

An apologies should me mentioned first, if accepted :). I totally understand your tensity with these warnings, hoping you don't take it personally. I usually never give a number 3 warning immediately, but I didn't see a reason to just give a reminder when I saw the block history. Again, I apologies that I haven't seen the template signs and thought it was vandalizing with "whom" and changing many headers (which usually needs community approval) in Marie of Brabant, Queen of France, and so on. However, I don't see any serious problem with your edit now, and I restored it myself exactly the same way. Just try to put a summary on your edits so editors don't assume the worse, and take care when changing headers without a summary. Wish you luck and Happy Editing! AdvertAdam ^talk 08:15, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Apology accepted. I had a feeling you looked at my blocking history and judged me by that; it's unfortunate that mess is still following me around, but I understand why it made you less gentle with me. One good thing that came out of, though, it is that I know the blocking policy of Wikipedia very well ;)

O ya, you do now. Guess I can't mess with you :p jkjk. I'm sending you a Barnstar on your page, for your polite responses, while you can move it wherever you want. Btw, you're allowed to remove the blocking template after the apologies if you'd like. Happy editing, and let me know if you need help on anything :) AdvertAdam ^talk 08:52, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

The reason I changed the heading is that both the information I was adding and some existing information were about her life after Philips III died and there was no appropriate heading for that. You are definitely right by saying I should put a summary, especially when changes are made and I shall take more care to do so in the future. Greetings, Peaceingalaxy (talk) 08:46, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Empress Iwa-no hime merged into Princess Iwa

I have merged the text from Empress Iwa-no hime into Princess Iwa. Both short pages appear to describe the same person. The pages Empress Iwanohime and Empress Iwa no Hime now redirect to Princess Iwa. Cnilep (talk) 04:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

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Jane Dormer

Some time ago you added some text to an article which included a citation. The citation software now includes warnings for missing fields. Unfortunalty you did not supply a title= for the citation, please could you do so. I would have done it myself but without a first name or an ISBN I can not work out the which book it is. -- PBS (talk) 19:26, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I have guessed that the book used was "Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII" but please confirm it. -- PBS (talk) 12:19, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

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Plagiarism

Your edit here appears to have been copy & pasted from Christian History: An Introduction, by Alister E. McGrath[1]. Please do not do this again. Also, Alison Weir is not a historian, thus not a reliable source. --Kansas Bear (talk) 19:18, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Fontevraud Abbey is literally the first article in my contributions (see there). Apparently, I forgot to quote one line, while I was still trying to adapt to Wikipedia. I apologize for that. Any further check of my history would have shown you that I always take care to quote and make references, often for articles that had none before. You could have inferred my good intentions from the fact that I quoted someone else in the same article. Your comment on my mistake is very much appreciated. Titling it 'plagiarism' as if this was done intentionally is not. Especially since I have edited four years conscientiously afterwards.

Also, Alison Weir is called a historian on her Wikipedia article.

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Nomination of Altani for deletion

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