Virginiacity

June 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Pir Roshan has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Alansohn (talk) 18:13, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

November 2009

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please use the "Preview" button. A8UDI 15:06, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Burki

Please see the discussion on Talk:Burki, which explains why those names may not stay on that list without inline citations verifying that the people are 1) notable and 2) correctly categorized as being a member of that tribe. Note that any of those people who are living fall under WP:BLP, so strict sourcing is always required; for the rest, we rely on WP:V, which says that unsourced information may be removed. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:29, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to User:Qwyrxian, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:03, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Advice

Hi, saw your message at user help. I wanted to give some friendly advice, hopefully someone who knows about the article can answer your other questions soon.

When you want to send people a message, write on their "talk page" by clicking on "talk" in their signature, rather than their "user page" which you get to by clicking on their name. Each user designs their own user page and its considered rude to edit someone else's.

Also, please bear in mind that everyone here is trying to improve the encyclopedia: you're much more likely to get your point across, and much less likely to get blocked, by staying civil and avoiding personal attacks. --Physics is all gnomes (talk) 16:15, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

PS. I responded some more on this page: Wikipedia:Help_desk#Burki --Physics is all gnomes (talk) 16:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

I also left a message there. I strongly encourage you to come to Talk:Burki. It may be that some of the sources we need are in those books listed as Sources at the bottom of the page. Let's work together on this rather than just reverting back and forth. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:43, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

However, when you do discuss there, you need to not attack me, and you need to not vandalize my user page (I just noticed the vandalism you did in this sequence of edits). Again, all I'm doing is following policy as best as I understand it. I understand that you're frustrated, because you feel like someone is interfering with your personal space. Together, though, we can work on this. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

August 2011

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Burki. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.

In particular, the three-revert rule states that:

1. Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. VQuakr (talk) 00:43, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

If you call the edits of good faith users vandalism again, I will request that you be blocked for making [[WP:NPA|personal attacks]. See, the problem is that when you make such attacks, you alienate people like me, who do sincerely want to help. I fully understand the silencing that goes on when only certain forms of knowledge are allowed. But I also understand that WP needs some sort of basis for deciding what goes in articles and what doesn't. You are, of course, welcome to ask Jimbo what he thinks, or to raise this issue on a noticeboard like WP:ANI if you think that we're breaking rules. I wouldn't recommend it, because doing so will bring you under scrutiny, and there's no question that your edits don't match policy, as unfortunate as that is. Please, I actually do want to help. At a minimum, I can get in some of the links about the dance and song, but I need a nice, polite response that deals with the issues I raised on talk. Qwyrxian (talk) 15:05, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 24 November 2015 (UTC)