MauriceHoward

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Sm8900 (talk) 05:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

"Adding and removing spaces"

Please stop making edits just to tweak the whitespace in articles. It doesn't really provide any benefit to the reader in and of itself, and it floods people's watchlists. It's fine if you're doing other stuff to the article, but on its own it's not necessary. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:09, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

They're still doing this, even though it doesn't change the display of the page at all.

They also keep making changes to Wikipedia:Backlog - Wikipedia which I don't understand, but they might be constructive edits. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 16:18, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Still doing it. Mccapra (talk) 08:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

September 2022

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain namespaces ((Article)) for editing solely to add or remove whitespace from articles, with zero communication or alteration following several talk page messages/warnings. As I said in my first message, this is generally considered annoying and floods watchlists and edit histories with pointless edits. I will be happy to unblock you if you acknowledge the issue.

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 ~~~~}}.  ♠PMC♠ (talk) 16:54, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

I believe they are still doing this, just under an IP now. User talk:146.113.128.115

You can see here that MauriceHoward was doing all the edits to this page, and now it is just this IP.

They've started to move category tags around while doing their white space changes so it looks less obvious. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

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