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Hi there, I see you are making changes to the introduction of the Jesus article. The topic of your edit has already been discussed extensively at Talk:Jesus/Archive 134. May I advise you to please engage in discussion and reach a consensus before reverting other users edits or your contributions may be viewed as edit warring. Thanks, and have a good night.--Thebighomie123 (talk) 20:39, 6 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hello, I noticed that your edits to Islam in Mozambique (here) includes text that is not mentioned in the sources. For example, while this source here by Deutsche Welledoes mention the presence of slave traders in East Africa, it makes no claim that they were one of the two factors involved with spreading Islam in Mozambique (it also doesn't even name the country). Your second source seems not to work and I therefore can't verify it. The last source which is a book, is about Kenya, not Mozambique. You also removed this existing source which is an academic article written by a Islamicist that specializes in East African Islam. I also plan to be place more academic sources. This source is more appropriate and actually backs what the text says. Be aware that I will likely revert your edit for the reasons cited. If I'm missing something here, please don't hesitate to reply. Thank you. SlackingViceroy (talk) 23:48, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Jesus. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Both in my edit comment, and on the talk page discussion I pointed to the relevant guideline, MOS:OPEN, which explains the strict need for neutrality in the opening paragraph. Asserting that Jesus is a Christian figure and nothing else in that same opening paragraph is the opposite of neutral: it is a clearly biased point of view. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:52, 3 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Kindly justify the changes you are making on the relevant article's talk page, not here. I have already given a detailed response there. RegardsNeplota (talk) 10:08, 3 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi, I’m sorry I didn’t see a good reason why you deleted the edits previously. The content were already there previously, it has some sources and references too. It was just revised by another user to make it in the first opening. Please don’t do that again without providing a good reason. Thank you. Eustatius Strijder (talk) 23:43, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.
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Hi, once again, I see you are making changes to the introduction of the Jesus article. The topic of your edit has already been discussed extensively at Talk:Jesus/Archive 134. May I advise you to please engage in discussion and reach a consensus before reverting other users edits or your contributions may be viewed as edit warring. Thebighomie123 (talk) 13:20, 19 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Yes it has. But it's not the version that you are edit warring to change to. Try that nonsense again and I foresee that you won't be here long. DeCausa (talk) 17:16, 19 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Neplota, please take this as the friendliest possible warning that you are in danger of violating WP:3RR. One more revert of any kind on Jesus within 20ish hours will have consequences. I see that you added a post to Talk:Jesus. As I do not currently see consensus for the 16-day-old edits that are now being contested-only a termination of discussion-please continue that discussion without further attempts to restore your edits, should they be removed again. An RFC would probably be the smartest, least time consuming option. See also WP:CON, especially WP:NOCON as well as WP:STABLE, which outline the difference between consensus and a discussion just ending, and why the concept of a "stable version" should not be referred to in this present discussion. Jtrevor99 (talk) 04:09, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Your recent editing history at Jesus shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. DeCausa (talk) 05:58, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi. you have recently modified Kiribati by adding info that wasn’t exactly the same of the 2020 Census (files published June 2022), so I have reverted it and stated exactly what is written in the source. sorry for that and thanks again. Arorae (talk) 09:49, 6 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, this is my user page Regarding article on relegon in Australia, comment: Irish Catholics transported to Australia via the English criminal justice system, implies these were common criminals, where as most of these transportations were due to political activity such as the 1798 rebellions and later anti English political actions and not common criminal or treasonable acts as viewed by the English administration. This should be highlighted. 109.78.5.200 (talk) 05:25, 7 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Your recent editing history at Kiribati shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. --Arorae (talk) 11:40, 7 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
--Arorae (talk) 14:36, 8 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello, I'm Dr.Pinsky. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Islam in Nicaragua, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 07:50, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Jesus. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Both in my edit comment, and on the talk page discussion I pointed to the relevant guideline, MOS:OPEN, which explains the strict need for neutrality in the opening paragraph. Asserting that Jesus is a Christian figure and nothing else in that same opening paragraph is the opposite of neutral: it is a clearly biased point of view. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:52, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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