Gvick2002

Welcome!

Hello, Gvick2002, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Smudge Stick [1] and which I discussed with you here, have removed content without an explanation. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles.

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September 2016

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Smudge Stick, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Do not edit war. Take it to the talk page. The article is lacking in sourcing. That doesn't mean you should delete what sourcing is there and add your own theories. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 18:39, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

October 2016

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Smudge Stick, you may be blocked from editing. The content is sourced and relevant to the cultures these practices originate in. Documenting the reactions of people from those cultures to the use by people outside the culture is not "racist." Please engage with editors on article talk pages rather than simply deleting sourced, stable content you dislike, and please avoid inflammatory edit summaries. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 22:07, 20 October 2016 (UTC)