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 Welcome Seanmoral135!
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Sincerely, Ad Orientem (talk(Leave me a message) 00:20, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ad Orientem (talk) 00:20, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

August 2024

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at TAPE Inc.. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. 2001:448A:1020:3E53:4DAD:11FF:436B:2F42 (talk) 14:15, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Sabrina Carpenter. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Amaury17:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

 

Your recent editing history at Sabrina Carpenter 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; read about 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. Geraldo Perez (talk) 18:40, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at TAPE Inc.. Breaktheicees (talk) 23:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

LeAnn Rimes lead photo

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Per MOS:IMAGES, "a biography should lead with a portrait photograph of the subject alone". The image you are changing it to is not a portrait. I originally uploaded both portrait and non-portrait images. I'd much prefer not to start an edit war - do you have some sort of rationale for going against the Manual of Style? Breaktheicees (talk) 07:07, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

The photo you are trying to force into the article against opposition to the change by other editors is a very poor image to use in an infobox. If you think you have an argument for why it should be included, contribute to the existing discussion on the talk page, Talk:LeAnn Rimes § Lead image, and explain your reasons and gain a consensus to change it from the current reasonable good image. Geraldo Perez (talk) 00:42, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi Seanmoral135. Welcome to the encyclopedia. Please be aware that when we have disagreements here, the normal procedure is to discuss them on the article talk page and seek WP:CONSENSUS. This is one of the foundation stones of the project .Edit warrring is counterproductive and disruptive. Please discuss your proposed changes. Thank you for your contributions to the project. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:46, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply