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Sincerely, Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:59, 10 June 2019 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
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editI'm sorry I had to revert your hard work. Please keep the list of charts to ten (10), and do not change any without talk page consensus or citing a prior one which gives another priority. dannymusiceditor oops 03:33, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
June 2019
editHello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to For King & Country (band), did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Please stop stylizing titles. There's a consensus on the albums project that we use common English titles. We don't pipe stylization in. Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:21, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
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Linking
editI've noticed that you've linked nations of bands in two discography articles recently. Unless there's a close association with the nation (and there are virtually no bands or artists where this would apply) we should not link their nation of origin. This is a guideline for editing across the English Wikipedia project and can be at WP:OVERLINK. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:54, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
June 2019
editHello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Please use edit summaries
editWikipedia is a collaborative project and if you aren’t going to discuss anything, it’s not going to be a good experience for anyone. We have talk pages for every page to discuss things and there is also an edit summary section to explain your changes. Please begin using them. Toa Nidhiki05 16:51, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
June 2019
editPlease refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Francesca Battistelli discography. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.
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Some advice
editWe typically don't include component album charts like digital albums in discographies. The Top Pop Catalogs album chart is also typically excluded, since it's just a way to rank albums a year or two beyond their release. It's not needed. Toa Nidhiki05 01:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Stylizing
editPlease do not stylize album titles, song names, and artist names. We do not do that here. Toa Nidhiki05 16:44, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
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