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Happy editing! Cheers, Grayfell (talk) 19:05, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in the Syrian Civil War and ISIL. Due to past disruption in this topic area, the community has authorised uninvolved administrators to impose contentious topics restrictions—such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks—on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, expected standards of behaviour, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. For additional information, please see the guidance on these sanctions. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Aaron Liu (talk) 21:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Original research

Please see Wikipedia:No original research; it is not appropriate to add your own interpretations or extrapolations to articles. All content must be directly supported by sources. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 10:23, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Please kindly cite, where I've added non-sourced facts or interpolations of articles. AlmostDeveloper (talk) 10:54, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

In your edits at Human rights in the AANES and your edit requests at Talk:Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, you invoke "misandry" and "men's rights", but do not, from what I can tell, provide sources that connect the facts you cite with these ideas. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 10:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Misandry, by Wikipedia, is "hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys". Men's rights advocacy, by Wikipedia, is "a focus on general social issues and specific government services which (...) adversely impact - or (...) structurally discriminate (...) men and boys". Sources I cite ("Only men are forced to die on wars", "There is prejudice against gay males", "Sexual violence against boys is underreported") show hatred, contempt for or prejudice against men or boys, so that falls under misandry definition, and talk about this falls under men's rights topic.

Still, you were very correct that I misunderstood the "hail" definition, so I've reverted/canceled edit requests at Talk:Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. AlmostDeveloper (talk) 11:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Original research includes combining information from different sources to form a result that the sources do not individually support. You would need a source specifically saying that what happens in AANES is misandry/men's rights violations. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 11:24, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

gotcha, thank you AlmostDeveloper (talk) 11:25, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

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Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:11, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Emphasis on the "does not imply that there are any issues with your editing". That said, it would help if you would keep proposals at talk until you're sure there's consensus. Usually people will pretty clearly state their support for your changes. The temptation to make a few adjustments and then reinsert disputed content is common, but it can lead to unnecessarily contentious revert wars. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:11, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

You're totally right. Thank you for so kind wording. I thought, we agreed consensus in talk with you - didn't we not? Or do you mean that I should wait for more comments from other people? This message was written with sincerely good intentions. AlmostDeveloper 18:58, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

We didn't agree. Let me know (there, preferably) if there's a part of my comments you'd like me to clarify. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:04, 12 September 2024 (UTC)