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FDW777 (talk) 16:06, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

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July 2022

Hello, I'm Adakiko. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, List of serial rapists, 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. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 04:02, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries?

If you add or remove a name on LoSR, please mention their name?

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

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Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Adakiko (talk) 23:45, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

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You have shown interest in gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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-- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 07:21, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

To answer your question on my talk page—and you can reply here; I'll see—the gender sanctions cover all of human sexuality, thus including List of serial rapists. I'm not sure why the exact wording, which comes from a case titled Gender and sexuality, doesn't include the word "sexuality", and had actually noticed that when I left this notice, and already reached out to a few arbitrators for clarification on that. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 07:49, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Again, you can just reply here. I'm not saying you infringed anything. Rape is part of the topic of gender and sexuality. You are editing about rape, so I am notifying you of the discretionary sanctions in place in that topic area. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 07:56, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

September 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at List of child abuse cases featuring long-term detention, you may be blocked from editing. Sundayclose (talk) 16:01, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Edit

Can you revert this for me please? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_youngest_killers&type=revision&diff=1105819626&oldid=1105805957 2601:206:301:4A90:3EF:572F:A7B0:1619 (talk) 18:36, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

This IP is a sock of prolific sockmaster Cadeken. See WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Cadeken/Archive, who has created dozens of accounts and used even more IPs. The editing pattern is identical. IPs in southern California always pop up when a registered sock is blocked. The IPs seek meatpuppets with this message to evade a block or policies, a gross violation of policies. I suggest ignoring this IP unless you want to open a can of worms. Sundayclose (talk) 18:55, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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Replaceable fair use File:Hugh Fraser Actor.jpg

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Replaceable fair use File:Belinda Lang.jpg

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Central Park jogger case

Hi @ContributingHelperOnTheSide, I am @Archer1234. I wanted to let you know that I reverted your recent edit to Central Park jogger case. Editors should not add unsourced claims to an article. Adding a {{citation needed}} tag to newly introduced claims does not absolve the editor from responsibility to cite source(s) (i.e., it is not a loophole for adding unsourced claims). {{Citation needed}} is for claims pre-existing in the article that do not merit immediate removal. If you have any questions about this, reply to this message. Thanks. — Archer1234 (talk) 23:01, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

February 2023

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Nomination of Murder of Krystal Dawn Steadman for deletion

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Nomination of Polly Bartlett for deletion

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April 2023

Please do not add or change content, as you did at And Then There Were None, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please see the comment in the #Central Park jogger case section above. Adding a Citation Needed tag does not absolve you from the requirement to provide sources when you add new material. MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:00, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Film plots

Thank you for adding a plot to Nine Guests for a Crime, however as per WP:FILMPLOT, plot summaries should be between 400 and 700 words, whereas your plot was 1258 words. I have, therefore tagged the plot as being too long, and would like to give you the chance to reduce it to under 700 words. Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 17:26, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I can't say when, but I can reduce the word count. ContributingHelperOnTheSide (talk) 19:40, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Please make sure the content is supported by the sources

Hi!

I know that there were good intentions behind this edit. Unfortunately, the edit did not take into account what the source said. The text in Wikipedia articles needs to be supported by the sources.

The source states: "Stuart Tay was a 17-year-old Chinese-American honor student[...]" and so the text needs to say "Chinese American" there. By "Chinese American" it means Tay was of Chinese ancestry, and not that his family originated from the People's Republic of China. Indeed, his family came from Singapore, and so he was also "Singaporean American" at the same time. To describe him as Singaporean American, cite a source which explicitly states his family came from Singapore. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:20, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Abuse in gymnastics

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Deleted categories

The category was deleted through a standard WP:CFD discussion, not arbitrarily emptied out of process, so tracking "which users or bots were responsible for removing the category name from every article" would be a waste of your time because nobody acted improperly at all and nothing you do or say will get anybody punished.

Regardless, if you want to at least find out what was in the category, you would have to get an old "dump" (copy) of the database as it existed on a date before the category was deleted, and scan for the contents of that category. There is a way to do that, but I haven't had to do it in so long that I don't remember where it is — so your best bet would be to ask at WP:VPT for more information about where to post a request of that nature. But again, nobody's going to get punished for "removing" the category from articles given that it was deleted through the proper channels, so if that's your goal then don't waste your time. Bearcat (talk) 22:36, 23 February 2024 (UTC)