March 2024

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Pavel Tsitsianov. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Your edit summary here states, "Unreliable source",[1] but this is from Rutgers University Press, clearly a reliable source.  // Timothy :: talk  13:46, 30 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Pavel Tsitsianov‎‎, you may be blocked from editing. Your claim that a work published by Rutgers University Press is unreliable is incorrect. And a page number is not needed because the subject is mentioned extensively throughout the work.[2] Your change has been disputed, it is up to you to achieve WP:CONSENSUS before removing it.  // Timothy :: talk  16:24, 30 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add or change content, as you did at Shabaran, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. See [3]  // Timothy :: talk  16:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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April 2024

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