Finfinne

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Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Ethiopia, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Farside6 19:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Warning

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly, as you are doing in Ethiopia. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you.West Brom 4ever 19:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Contributions

Thank you for your contributions to Ethiopia related articles! ^_^ --ElectricEye (talk) 11:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, are considered vandalism and immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Silver Sonic Shadow 01:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please stop removing sources/references from articles or you will be blocked. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Your vandalism

Could you please explain why you think it's a good idea to remove references and categories from articles. You are not helping and your vandalism will just be reverted and you will be blocked. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

could you please stop vandalising Somali clan related articles and stop removing sources! RoboRanks 18:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Your edits to Oromo

Your changes to the article are contradicted by the cited source.

This is your last warning.
The next time you deliberately introduce incorrect information into a page, as you did to Oromo, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 07:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a short time in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for repeated abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by replying here on your talk page by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} .

—Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Your block has been extended for using a sockpuppet (Eastafrica_institute (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)) to evade your block. Please use talk pages to discuss your edits in the future, or you will find yourself indefinitely blocked. —bbatsell ¿? ✍ 04:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

What are you trying to accomplish?

You appear to be very focused on removing valid citations from the Hawiye article, along with other deletions and unexplained edits. If you are trying to make legitimate changes to these articles, you must explain your intentions on the article talk pages. If you continue to remove valid citations without explaining yourself, your edits will continue to be treated as vandalism and reverted. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 04:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Nonsense of Asharaf

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Asharaf, by Nekohakase, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Asharaf provides no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Asharaf, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Please note, this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate Asharaf itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. --Android Mouse Bot 2 16:31, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

June 2007

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Amhara Region. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Thank you. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:24, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Image:Ethiopia.gif. See Wikipedia:Copyrights. Copyright violations are unacceptable and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Your original contributions are welcome. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:33, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for copyright infringement. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

-- Gyrofrog (talk) 01:50, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

• You uploaded an image you had already been warned about (Image:Ethiopia.gif) under a different name (Image:Etiopien.gif). -- Gyrofrog (talk)

September 2007

I have rolled back the content deletions that you made on Oromo Liberation Front. You appear to have deleted on topic and sourced material. Please do not do this again. If you object to the content please leave a message on the talk page for the article and discuss it, don't just delete large sections.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert 00:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Oromo Liberation Front, you will be blocked from editing.

Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as Image:Oromoflag.jpg has been listed for speedy deletion because you selected a copyright license type implying some type of restricted use, such as for non-commercial use only, or for educational use only or for use on Wikipedia by permission. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, this is in fact not the case[1][2]. Please do not upload any more files with these restrictions on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. See our non-free content guidelines for more more information.

If you created this media file and want to use it on Wikipedia, you may re-upload it (or amend the image description if it has not yet been deleted) and use the license {{GFDL-self}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain.

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If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. Gyrofrog (talk) 03:14, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate images to Wikipedia, as you did to Oromo language. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 02:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 month in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for repeatedly uploading non-free content. Please stop. You're welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

-- Gyrofrog (talk) 02:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism and are immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop. Consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

72 hours. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 23:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

November 2008

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Ethiopia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. skew-t (talk) 03:57, 13 November 2008 (UTC)