Sgtnugg

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Bantu pig. Thanks! Greenman (talk) 07:27, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

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Please note that due to WP:RUSUKR, editors who are not extended confirmed are unable to make edits about the Russo-Ukrainian war, broadly construed, but can still make edit requests on the talk page. Thanks. Mellk (talk) 16:23, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the warning. So despite the fact that the village Tyotkino has little to do with the war overall, (and I will admit my edit removing an area without consensus was wrong), am I unable to make edits that use proper sources and are well written until I am extended-confirmed?

Thank you Sgtnugg (talk) 20:30, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

This edit was directly about the war. As the general sanctions page says: Only extended-confirmed editors may make edits related to the topic area. This is also broadly construed. If you have any other questions, do let me know. Mellk (talk) 20:54, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Coalition of the Gulf War

Thanks for beginning the clean-up of that article. Just today, shortly before you began editing, I was reading it and thinking how badly it needed work in places (including the Bangladesh section, for example). Great minds etc. AntiDionysius (talk) 21:36, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks mate, means a lot, I don't get much appreciation for the work I do on these random pages. Lot's of work do on that one, that's for sure! Sgtnugg (talk) 11:56, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Sgtnugg! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 10:51, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

A7 medium tank

Hi Sgtnugg, my area of expertise is biographies, but I would say the source you linked to looks OK. While the website looks to allow articles by non-professionals, the author looks to be a tank specialist.

I'm not sure what you mean by: would I be able to use the sources that they have cited in their article, even if I do not have access to them. Are you referring to the sources at the bottom of the Russian article you've linked to or to the sources in the Wiki article. If you don't have access to sources then you obviously can't use them to add new material. You don't need to delete information that is properly cited here on Wikipedia even if you can't check the source yourself; just build on it. Don't use blogspot, and of the the other two sources, one (Duncan, Mediums Marks I-III) is used in the Wiki article already. You can only use what you have access to, to add to articles.

Happy editing, 11:06, 30 September 2024 (UTC) Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 11:06, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

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