AndyUSWCAX

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Hello, I'm Gadfium. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Optical tweezers, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -gadfium 17:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at National Geographic, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. sixtynine ^{• whaddya want? •} 06:37, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! - wolf 12:27, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Additional note

Of your first 20 edits, most of them are significant in size, ranging from 1.5kB to 3.7kB. That is not "minor" (m). Please don't abuse the edit summary function by marking edits improperly. Please add a brief summary explaining whatever changes have made for every edit you make going forward. This makes life a little easier for your fellow editors. Thank you - wolf 12:34, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Con't abuse

Since my previous comment, you have made several more edits, all of them are marked as "minor" (m) when all but one clearly are not. Additionally, you have only added a summary to two edits, which don't even summarize your changes, (and one is a request for help). These are significant changes you are making, and so I will again request that you not mark them as "minor" when they are not and that you add a summary that provides a brief but clear description of the changes you have made with your edit. Thank you - wolf 07:06, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Warning

Please stop your disruptive editing.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at National Geographic, you may be blocked from editing.

In addition, you added unsourced text to Optical tweezers despite having been asked not to do so, and you added a poorly written paragraph to Saga.

It seems as if English may not be your first language; that does not have to be a problem but writing in coherent and understandable English is required at English Wikipedia, and some of your recent contributions have not been very easy to understand. Maybe you could instead look into contributing to a Wikipedia version in your native language. There is a list here. bonadea contributions talk 11:06, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Smithsonian Institution‎

Please add references to the addition you made to Smithsonian Institution‎. Coldcreation (talk) 09:51, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Actually, the text you added to Smithsonian Institution‎ was not only unsourced, but some of it contradicted the information that was already there, and some of it was a repetition. Please stop adding whole paragraphs of text without seemingly checking how the text agrees with what is already there. --bonadea contributions talk 10:38, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018

One of your recent additions has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Moxy (talk) 02:57, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Best place to start. ...

Pls read over Wikipedia:Tutorial/Keep in mind.--Moxy (talk) 03:07, 29 December 2018 (UTC)