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edit{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. Ian.thomson (talk) 13:09, 9 August 2016 (UTC)- I would have just given you another warning, but you have once again reference spammed the same website in an area that any literate person can tell is inappropriate. The page you cited does not say anything about George Osborne anywhere in the domain. If you want to be unblocked, in addition to promising never to spam again, you will have to explain that you understand that references have to actually have anything to do with the material they're being cited for. Ian.thomson (talk) 13:09, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
IrtazaNGD (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
iam sorry its just a mistake want to check the editing and i took wrong page plz unblock me — Preceding unsigned comment added by IrtazaNGD (talk • contribs)
Decline reason:
Spamming inappropriate links is bad enough; transparently lying about it does not help in the least. I see no reason to expect that unblocking you would improve the encyclopedia. Huon (talk) 20:43, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
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- So you accidentally replaced the link here with one that has absolutely nothing to do with George Osborne, and then you accidentally revised the date? And I suppose you previously accidentally replaced the link here with one that has absolutely nothing to do with Seventh Day Adventists before clearing out everything else so the only information people could see is your spam link? Yeah, right. If you really were that incompetent, it'd still be a problem -- competence is required.
- Now, if you promise to never link to Charaag.com again, and you promise to stop adding citations that have nothing to do with the article, then maybe you can get one more chance. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:30, 9 August 2016 (UTC)