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Wikicontributorhd, good luck, and have fun. Packerfan386 (talk) 03:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

September 2021 edit

  Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Indo-Aryan languages, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 05:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

DS-alert edit

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Indo-Aryan languages. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Serols (talk) 18:29, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

 

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Indo-Aryan languages, you may be blocked from editing.
Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Indo-Aryan languages was changed by Wikicontributorhd (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.896952 on 2021-09-22T18:46:30+00:00

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 18:46, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia and copyright edit

  Hello Wikicontributorhd! Your additions to Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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