Lanterner12

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Hello, Lanterner12, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one of your contributions does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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Edit warring

Hi, Some of your recent edits on Tigrayans article haven’t been constructive. Tigrayans of Ethiopia are not same ethnic group as the Tigrinya ethnic group of Eritrea, they have two separate articles. This has been discussed and consensus has been reached to keep the two articles separate. Stop the edit warring since this could get you blocked. Leechjoel9 (talk) 17:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

The same is true about your (Lanterner's) recent edits on Ethiopia. I have tried to point you to the rules of Wikipedia in my talk-page entry above. These rules are necessary to avoid pointless edit wars between parties with diverging opinions on what constitutes truth and what is a lie. Therefore it is of utmost importance to support any potentially contentious edit with first-rate sources. It is not enough to make unspecific references to "media and witnesses" - you need to show exactly what evidence you have used to make a claim. Further it does not help to use inflammatory language, as you did in some edit summaries and in the edits themselves. Finally, if your edits do get reverted, the next step in Wikipedia is to not just re-revert, but to engage in a discussion where sources and facts are compared. What you have done so far constitutes disruptive editing. If you do not leave this behaviour behind quickly, your editing career on Wikipedia is going to be very short, as your editing privileges will be revoked, first temporarily, and then permanently. Until then, your edits will continue to be reverted within hours, if not minutes. If you really want to have a lasting impact on the content of Wikipedia, it is therefore crucial that you start now to follow the rules, and to stay away from POV-driven edit warring. This is my second and final warning to you. Landroving Linguist (talk) 18:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

It's a pity that you, Lanterner12, seem not to have taken the sage advice given to you by both Leechjoel9 and Landroving Linguist above.

I would also concur that you, Lanterner12, need to read up about reliable sourcing and cease edit warring if you are not to be blocked from editing again VERY shortly. You have already been warned below by User:DMacks what will happen if you do not try and educate yourself about our rules and act in a more collegial fashion ! --BushelCandle 00:05, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

February 2021

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  DMacks (talk) 04:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  DMacks (talk) 04:42, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

You can be sure the next block will be indefinite. Please spend the next week committing to behaving differently on our website if you would like to continue editing at all. DMacks (talk) 04:43, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Hello, I'm Boud. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. This was your unconstructive edit that modified an infobox to make it inconsistent with the sources, on an article in which NPOV matching the sources is an especially sensitive issue. Boud (talk) 22:21, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. This was the edit in which you deleted a major amount of background, sourced material and you reversed the conventionally accepted start of the war. The start of the war would be worth discussing in terms of sources, but not by a sudden change in the infobox. A proper talk page discussion would have to be started. Boud (talk) 00:40, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Tigray Defence Forces moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Tigray Defence Forces, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. ... discospinster _talk 22:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Tigray Defence Forces moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Tigray Defence Forces, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. TAXIDICAE💰 12:32, 20 April 2021 (UTC)