February 2014

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Stop removing parentheses

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Please stop removing parentheses from the authors given behind species. Those parentheses have a specific meaning in taxonomy. Thanks. -- Yzx (talk) 23:23, 21 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

April 2014

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May 2014

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Cut-and-paste

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Please stop using cut-and-paste methods to change the names of articles. Instead of turning an article into a redirect and pasting the text from the article into the former redirect to achieve the renaming, you must create an account, and then use the "Move" tab to rename the article. Abductive (reasoning) 03:09, 21 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

June 2014

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July 2014

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Use of Edit Summaries

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While I'm glad that you have begun using edit summaries to explain your motives (which you should almost, always do), please refrain from deleting information elsewhere without providing a clear explanation and/or a reliable source that supports what you are adding/removing. Thank you. 72.197.234.162 (talk) 05:01, 15 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Please explain why you are constantly blanking and redirecting these pages

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Please. Tutelary (talk) 21:42, 28 August 2014 (UTC) I redirect these pages because these sharks are no longer valid species.Reply

Under what standard/new information is this the case? Tutelary (talk) 21:52, 28 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

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October 2014

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Tanakia. Neil916 (Talk) 18:54, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

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  This is your final warning. You have been told repeatedly not to remove parentheses from the authorities of scientific names. Any further unconstructive edit of this kind will result in your being blocked from editing. --Stemonitis (talk) 15:33, 27 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

 
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Parentheses around the scientific authority

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Please refer to the talk page for Planonasus (talk · contribs), in the section titled "Parentheses around the scientific authority". here is a link. Your efforts to improve articles is appreciated, but you have been continuing to remove the parentheses, which is harming, rather than improving, the articles. Please engage in discussion there, here, or somewhere else if you dispute what people are telling you or if you have questions or concerns. Please do it now, because if you continue making these changes, I or others are going to request a block of your editing privileges to prevent further harm. Neil916 (Talk) 21:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Please read this ^^^^ before editing the Hypostomus article again. Neil916 (Talk) 20:00, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

February 2015

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  Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Ruby seadragon. Your edits have been reverted or removed.

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April 2015

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Edit

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I reverted your edit since most species do seem to be members of the superorder Selachimorpha. Natuur12 (talk) 16:44, 23 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Whoops, my bad. Seems like I made a mistake. Apologies and won't happen again. Natuur12 (talk) 18:01, 23 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

November 2015

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December 2015

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Image size in infoboxes

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I see you are dedicating significant effort to re-sizing images in infoboxes. Please do not do that. There are defaults in place, both in general and user-selected, which should determine these image sizes. What looks good on your computer screen may be a garbled mess on someone else's when you force an image size to a particular pixel width. Please read WP:IMAGESIZE for the overall principles. See also Template:Taxobox#Images for discussion about specific use inside taxoboxes. Regards, Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 03:21, 26 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

January 2016

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Leptoderma. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you.
You have been warned about your edits repeatedly before (here and in your Planonasus account). FishBase remains the main taxonomic resource for fishes (see WikiProject Fishes) and even when there are taxonomic updates, it remains the main citation for most of the list in almost all cases. For example, in Leptoderma, FishBase remains the citation for 5 species in the list. Only 1 species, Leptoderma ospesca, has another citation. Removing citations that form the basis for an article, even if only a part of it, is vandalism.
Separately, I have noticed that you consistently put in a space between sentences and citations. There should not be a space between these (see MOS:REFPUNC). In other words:

This is a sentence. <citations> – incorrect, space between sentence and citations
This is a sentence.<citation> – correct, no space between sentence and citation.

I have now corrected Leptoderma, leaving both citations that were used for the article, but removing the space. You have some good edits and I hope you continue with those, but your disregard for various rules, removal of citation (+information, in several cases) and occasional repeated reverts are highly problematic. Please do not continue with this or both your accounts may be blocked (as has happened before). 62.107.219.18 (talk) 22:47, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

July 2017

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November 2017

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February 2018

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December 2018

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