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Happy editing! Ludicrous (talk) 01:38, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

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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. — Diannaa (talk) 19:51, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Tabor City, North Carolina

Your recent edits to the page for Tabor city seem to contain excess details about particular parts of the city history. Specifically, a massive block quote about General Sherman, the design of a warehouse, and lists of individual businesses. Please note that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Please discuss the specific points you think should be included in the article on it's talk page. Thanks, SpinningCeres 20:55, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Tabor City, North Carolina, you may be blocked from editing. You are restoring copyright violations and potential original research you have been previously warned about(and had WP:REVDEL'd) SpinningCeres 21:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

I hope that I have finally corrected the problems with my edits. At first I did not see the notes left by others nor the notes at the top of entry pertaining to my edits.

I have removed copyright content copied from remove copyright content copied from http://taborcitylumber.com/. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia.— Diannaa (talk) 15:15, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

The Tabor City Lumber info was in the original entry prior to my edit. I had copy/pasted it when I was adding my edit to other parts of that section. The original entry had several items with the same type of copyrighted material. I hope that my edits now are sufficiently corrected to abide by the rules. As these are the first times that I have edited wikipedia entries, the learning curve is steep and I am getting the hang of it. Thanks

Sanborn Maps

It looks like some of the lists of businesses are only backed by a reference to a map. Do you know the name for the specific map? Despite having access to ProQuest, I can't find it, and it doesn't appear the numbering in the URL is shared by any other website that hosts the maps. If an image of a map with business names in the only source for those lists, then unfortunately the whole list will have to be removed. Thanks, SpinningCeres 00:50, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

These are Sanborn fire insurance maps for the town of Tabor, NC, from 1925 and from 1934. I reduced the info on both of these entries to include the bare minimum of a description. Not sure if this URL will work better. Trying to help build a better entry for my hometown on wiki. Pardon my learning curve. https://digitalsanbornmaps-proquest-com.proxy044.nclive.org/browse_maps/28/5255/25376/26459/337133?accountid=7980 https://digitalsanbornmaps-proquest-com.proxy044.nclive.org/browse_maps/28/5255/25377/26459?accountid=7980

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Brenden Jones Wikipedia Page

Nick. Please stop this. TheKingsCross (talk) 01:13, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

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Woodroar (talk) 21:41, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Brendan Jones again.

See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Brendan Jones. You have already been notified about relevant policy, and you are unlikely to get another warning before being sanctioned. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing Brenden Jones for violations of the biographies of living persons policy.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:00, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

• Upon further review I've blocked your account indefinitely due to blatant and prolonged violations of WP:BLP that equate to a targetted attack on Brenden Jones. Your edits were egregious enough, including the addition of detailed information on the subject's children in an effort to pillory Jones, that I revision deleted the majority of them. Your edits conflict completely with the pillars of this encyclopedia are built upon.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:43, 13 April 2023 (UTC)