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Signed off?

Alex, you keep on signing off and it's getting confusing which !votes are yours. Make sure to sign each. Bulldog123 21:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, actually, I don't know what is going on? I am Alexander_Lau and that underscore isn't taking for some, extremely odd, reason. I keep getting a RED hyperlink, when I've actually contributed a lot and should be BLUE!?!?! :(

It's coming up red because your userpage is blank. When you edit that, your name will come up blue, because your name links to your userpage, not your contributions. --BelovedFreak 20:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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German in the United States

Thanks for adding this source, but could you please also add bibliographical information about the book in question to the ref? There are lots of books written by someone called Smith. Thanks! —Angr 20:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

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Windhoek

Hi Andreas, thanks for supplying a reference for statements in the Windhoek article. Unfortunately, I could not see how the CIA fact book supports any of the statements of the paragraph you placed it at. I thus had to revert your good faith edit. Maybe you want to check again? --Pgallert (talk) 09:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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Major problem with German-American issues

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Chuck Britz. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

Greetings. I reverted your 27 October 2014 edit to the Britz article, designating him as German-American, because none of the references available provided reliable verification. Then I wrote a rant on that article's Talk page that you might want to read. Then I traced the edit to you. And then I looked at your contributions to discover that you've made numerous edits concerning Americans of German ancestry in various forms. I picked another at random, Tyler Ott, to discover that no reliable verification concerning German-Americanness was provided. That's been reverted. I'm making this a Level 3 warning because there seems to be a pattern of unreferenced edits for several years. Even if the names of both parents are 'obviously' German (as in Ott's case), verification is required. Not to do so, especially as frequently as I suspected you've done it, is Original Research, another 'nein-nein' @ Wikipedia.

Given all this, I'd like to suggest that you revisit the Welcoming message at the top of this page, as well as the links I've provided, and do a sort of reset. If I've inferred too much and you've actually documented a large percentage of your German-American edits, I apologize profusely--but again, I'm dubious. If I've inferred correctly, I think you should return to the scene of the edits and begin to revert the unsourced ones or, even better, look for reliable sources. If I don't hear from you, I'm going to bring this to the attention of an administrator. Sorry for the kerfuffle, but you've been busy! Regards Tapered (talk) 12:27, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

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Greetings. You restored Americans of German descent to Tyler Ott without an explanation or new reference. Please explain why. I found no reference to Ott's ancestry in any of the listed references. Tapered (talk) 02:55, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Ping Tapered I've reverted some of your edits. It is not enough to say that a name is of German origin, you need to show that the individual is of that heritage with an appropriate heritage. In the case of Hugo Bezdek, although the article claims he is of Czech ancestry, I see no refrence that supports that claim Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:08, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Greetings. It's really positive that you referenced your latest 'German-American' edit. It's the right way to do things here. Please do know that Imdb is not generally considered a [[WP:RS|reliable source for biographies. Keep up the good work. Tapered (talk) 02:33, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:XanderL. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=XanderL|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. MrOllie (talk) 01:12, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Medical billing. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. [4] MrOllie (talk) 13:45, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Your subjective viewpoint doesn't qualify to delete my posts pointing to credible information on the subject. Shall I go to each article deleting a commercial-based reference?(talk)

If you've noticed other linkspam, yes, you should delete it. But the presence of other commercial links is not a good reason to link your own company. - MrOllie (talk) 13:51, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

And you're making a blatant mistake here. I've posted a number of commercial links over the years and they have absolutely zero affiliation with me. Better yet, take a gander at the endless contributions that I have made to other pages, adding and fixing grammar and references. Sad for you to abuse your power, but go on pump your chest policing every link. (talk)

Your own words demonstrate that that isn't true. - MrOllie (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

There are many thousands of commercial links throughout Wikipedia. I've zero affiliation with any of the commercial links I've posted. What a crock of shit!

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