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July 2017

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Disruptive moves

Don't make disruptive moves like you did with Opinion polling in the Canadian federal election, 2015. All the other articles use a similar title. If you want the page moved then make a request at WP:Requested moves. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 01:58, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Flag of Canada

Hello. Please avoid edit wars such as here. If your edit is reverted please bring it up at the Talk page so you can explain your reasoning on how your changes improve the article, and so other editors have the chance to understand and comment on your view point. In this case, continuing to revert User:Moxy is unproductive and can lead to your being blocked. I hope this helps, and have a good day. trackratte (talk) 17:01, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jay Fayza

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Ways to improve J. J. McCullough

Hi, I'm NorthBySouthBaranof. VivaSlava, thanks for creating J. J. McCullough!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. We need independent reliable sources about McCullough, not just things he's written.

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Nomination of J. J. McCullough for deletion

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November 2017

Charles lindberg pls try and used edit summaries. ... Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Template:Conservatism in Canada

The template suffers from recentism and concentrates too much on personalities rather than ideas and events. You might not like the changes I did, but the issues are still there. Please think about how the template can help put the main topics into historical context for readers, rather than just be a list of names. I look forward to your help. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 18:57, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Lindsay Shepherd listed at Redirects for discussion

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Maxime Bernier

Please start using edit summaries and please do not refer to good faith edits as vandalism. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 03:29, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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February 2018

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. English is the native language for British Parliamentary Systems. That there is a word for this in French, and that happens to be a legal language in Canada is no reason to supply it as a "native name" in the template. Please discuss on the talk page or explain when making any edits. As you're at two edits there now, recognize that you could be edit warring if you make a change. See WP:3RR. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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