Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin

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Better for America is not a political party. It is the same as Citizens United (organization). JC · Talk · Contributions 16:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 16:55, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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@Guiletheme: Thanks for the help! Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 20:37, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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I will add a tag to delete it. Don't change it! It will be deleted shortly Eteethan(talk) 21:28, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

@Eteethan:, thank-you so much!

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You have repeatedly engaged in disruptive editing on Talk:United States presidential election, 2016. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia you may be blocked. This is your first formal warning. 75.172.182.59 (talk) 00:56, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

WP:OWN US Presidential page

Hi Yuri, I wanted to remind you that "You must not make more than one revert per 24 hours to this article [US presidential election, 2016], must not reinstate any challenged (via reversion) edits without obtaining consensus on the talk page of this article and are subject to discretionary sanctions while editing this page." I noticed that you made two reversions in the last hour alone. Please revert yourself.--TM 11:21, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

It was vandalism, though. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 11:32, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Although I disagree with the removal of Castle et al., the edit you reverted was not vandalism. If you are confused about what vandalism is according to Wikipedia's standards, please see WP:VANDAL. Prcc27🌍 (talk) 22:12, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at United States presidential election, 2016.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Jay Coop · Talk · Contributions 19:06, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

@JayCoop: I make three tiny edits and you act like my "disruptive editing" is destroying Wikipedia. Those logos have been on Wikipedia for AGES now and you act like they've been put up SO recently that they need to be checked for copyright infringement. You say I may be blocked from Wikipedia for doing these tiny little things, yet there are people out there blanking entire pages that need to be told to stop a million times before they're temporarily banned for 5 seconds. Go yell at those people instead of me.

What's copyright infringement-y about the stuff below?

TRIGGER WARNING FOR CONTENT BELOW FOR ANYBODY READING THIS WHO IS ANTI-THIRD PARTY!!!

P.-s., why don't you care about the Green Party's logo?

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 20:01, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

If you went to those file pages and looked under "Licensing" or any similar section title, you would see that they're copyrighted. As for the Green Party logo, it is in public domain. It doesn't matter how long a file is on Wikimedia. Jay Coop · Talk · Contributions 20:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I believe copyrighted content can go under fair-use. Right? @JayCoop: Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 20:14, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

New discussion in talk pages

Hi Yuri. Thank you for notifying me of the Nader issue in the 2000 election. Just a quick note on how to use talk pages in general. It's expected that new discussions go at the bottom of the page, not the top. You're pretty new in here so it's normal that you do not know all the conventions. If you ever have a question, leave me a message. Cheers :) Abjiklɐm (tɐlk) 23:19, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

@Abjiklam: Yeah, I'm still not sure how this work here. But, thanks! Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 23:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you blank out or remove content from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to United States presidential election, 2016. Jim1138 (talk) 00:04, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

@Jim1138:, woah! Hold on! What blanking-out did I cause? I changed a low-quality picture to a high-quality picture! That's it! Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 00:07, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Jim can you explain the warning? Seems a bit harsh to use such a high level warning on a new editor who I'm pretty sure is acting on good faith. @Yuri: Don't make edits to attract the attention of other editors. That's not how it works. Abjiklɐm (tɐlk) 00:16, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, per Abjiklam's request: You changed an image on United States presidential election, 2016 that explicitly asked you to discuss any image changes before doing so.. I see you have done this twice since. See wp:BRD. BTW: The warning was the incremental scaling of warnings by wp:Huggle. You seem to have a good grasp of undoing other edits. Perhaps you should look into wp:civility, wp:consensus, and wp:edit warring. It would appear that the article has a wp:1RR revert limit. Jim1138 (talk) 00:27, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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I advise you to read the further information at the top of the article talk page and I suggest you undo your reinsertion. SPECIFICO talk 13:38, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, I came here to give you the same warning that SPECIFICO has posted above. If you want to alter the ballot access language, please first inquire on the talk page to gauge support for your changes. Do not continue to blindly revert. SPECIFICO might have been the fastest to disagree with you, but I suspect that others will as well - and I know that I dislike your blanket changes. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 13:55, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

The important thing here is that, if your edits are reverted, do not reinstate them. Instead, go to the talk page. Abjiklɐm (tɐlk) 14:47, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Third Party candidates with electoral votes

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Sincere thanks for your help! Porteclefs (talk) 15:17, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

@Porteclefs: Survey complete. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk) 17:17, 26 July 2017 (UTC)