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A cheeseburger for you!

Thanks for your formatting edits to the Club for Growth! The coloration of the win/loss columns makes them much easier to read. Cheers! Safehaven86 (talk) 16:40, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

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Syrian Civil War article requests in main page

Hi, thanks for the new information you were intending to add to the infobox. I've added it now. Thanks also for all the other edits about the conflict. Take a look at how to use talk pages for requests and how to use templates. I will summarise it here, if you don't want to read so much:

• Please use the talk page (at Talk:Syrian Civil War) for similar requests next time, the same goes for any article and their respective talk pages. If there is no talk page available, you can create one for an article and put your request there. Discussions and comments should almost never go in the main article text (reasonable footnotes are fine).

Putting requests in the edit summary as you did here is also acceptable.

• Secondly, if you would like to edit a template (which is what {{Syrian Civil War infobox}} was in that article), the place to do that is at Template:Syrian Civil War infobox. The same goes for any template, for example if you saw a template that was in the page as {{cite web|url=http://example.com}} (the stuff after the pipe character "|" is parameters), you can go to Template:cite web (notice how everything after the pipe character doesn't count there) and complete your edits there. Templates which are used a lot (like {{cite web}} and {{citation needed}}) are protected, as a change to it would affect a lot of pages where it is used, so maybe that's not a good example.

Some infoboxes do not have their own templates (look at the article for United Kingdom, for example). I think the infobox for the civil war article was in its own template because it got too unwieldy to edit inside the article.

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Abu Ruwayl

Today reliable source said that SAA captured the village of Abu Ruwayl.here but you map for 8 December(outdated) and acording to the rules of rditing we can't use all maps for edit. You must follow the rules of editing! Rules for editing the map:

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3-WP:POV pushing and intentional misinterpretation of sources will not be tolerated. If you are not sure about what the source is saying (or its reliability), post it on the talk page first so that it would be discussed. FoXrEpOrTeR (talk) 18:02, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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A community decision has authorised the use of general sanctions for pages related to the Syrian Civil War and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The details of these sanctions are described here. All pages that are broadly related to these topics are subject to a one revert per twenty-four hours restriction, as described here.

General sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. It is only effective if it is logged here. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:58, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Rules for editing the map

You break the rules of editing when use for edit only data from amateur map:

2- Copying from maps is strictly prohibited. Maps from mainstream media are approximate and therefore unreliable for any edit. Maps from amateur sources are below the standards of Wikipedia for any edit. They violate WP:RS and WP:CIRCULAR.
WP:RS: “Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book, and also claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs, Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources.” Source: Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources
WP:CIRCULAR: “Do not use websites that mirror Wikipedia content or publications that rely on material from Wikipedia as sources.”Talk:Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War Sûriyeya (talk) 08:48, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

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January 2016

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Ukrainian Armed Forces

We really appreciate the great work that you've been doing at Ukr AF, but please be more careful citing and checking your sources. Even if all Guards units were to be disbanded in 2015, removing any mention of them would remove some history of the Ukr AF from 1992-2015, and, for example, 17th Guards Tank Brigade is still listed in our latest updates, referencing what seem to be reasonable Ukr sources. Many thanks again for all your hard work at this article. Buckshot06 (talk) 23:31, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for all your continuing hard work on this article. Have you searched out, source-wise, articles by James Sherr from the Conflict Studies Research Centre on Ukraine? Buckshot06 (talk) 03:18, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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