Jamgorham

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Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:26, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

June 2022

Hi Jamgorham! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Sabrina Salerno that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Sumanuil. 07:39, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Dr. Seuss. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Thank you. Schazjmd (talk) 15:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Dr. Seuss, you may be blocked from editing. You cannot change direct quotes to your preferred wording. Schazjmd (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Who's the blockhead who invented those sayings anyway? Jamgorham (talk) 16:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Dr. Seuss probably said "whale of a time" and the interviewer misheard the "whale" part as "hell", and in the other interview he probably said something that sounded like "subversive as hell" and that interviewer heard it wrong. Jamgorham (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

July 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Shake It Up (The Cars song), you may be blocked from editing. Please stop citing a user page hosted by lionking.org. See WP:USERG. Binksternet (talk) 02:29, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Well if I can't cite user pages, can't I at least keep the AT40 year-end charts and just add "citation needed" at the end? Jamgorham (talk) 03:12, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia is supposed to be a summary of everything published about a topic. If the AT40 stuff isn't easily available, it doesn't need to be summarized. Binksternet (talk) 04:24, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Jamgorham! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Miguel (singer) several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

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