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Category:West Asian Canadians

Hello, why did you use the " " sortkey everywhere? 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:08, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Not sure what exactly you mean but if I made a mistake, please feel free to correct it. (Van00220 (talk) 22:14, 3 June 2020 (UTC))

Sorry; I mean that you categorised the articles into the mentioned categories with [[Category:West Asian Canadians| ]], which sorts article as if they were named " ". I was asking if this was deliberate or not, as Category:East Asian Canadian and similar categories didn't do that. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:19, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I see. It wasn't deliberate; that was a mistake on my part. (Van00220 (talk) 02:29, 4 June 2020 (UTC))

Thanks! I fixed it. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:13, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

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Requesting some help

Hi,

It seems recently you have been editing about Persian and South Asian language relations. I had Initiated two articles Draft:Aurats (word) and Aurats. Kindly do have a look at those articles, and if topic interests you, a request to expand these articles with refs.

Thanks and regards

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Thanks! I've copied sources from other wiki pages a few other times, but I will definitely remember to provide attribution should the need arise in future edits/contributions. Van00220 (talk) 22:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

The Pakistan Star

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		Great work on Pakistan related articles! You do fantastic work on Karachi. Zakaria ښه راغلاست (talk) 04:54, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

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Pashtuns

Dear User:Van00220, I hope you are doing well. Please keep an eye on the Pashtuns article. Despite the consensus on the talk page, User:Hercules298 (who I suspect is a sockpuppet of User:W28394) has been tampering with the infobox. There have been other problematic edits as well. You are welcome file an SPI if you feel called to do so. With regards, Anupam^Talk 00:24, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

I apologize that in the major revert I made, helpful information you added was removed. Feel free to kindly restore your edits. With regards, Anupam^Talk 00:34, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. I will have a look and restore my previous edit. Van00220 (talk) 00:26, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

User:Khestwol and User:PashtoPromoter, as both of you have made several constructive contributions to the article, please have a look too. Thanks, Anupam^Talk 04:53, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks for the heads up! Most of this occurring recently has been between pages with my own contributions with text and/or sources I originally wrote and/or attached, and not other users. I've always tried to be careful and always give source attributions to any text and/or sources I have copied from one page to another that wasn't my original contribution though. Apologies if I forgot to attribute anything (text/sources) that I hadn't originally contributed. Van00220 (talk) 23:09, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

It's not easy for me to confirm who wrote what parts of what articles. Sorry for any extraneous notices. — Diannaa (talk) 23:32, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

No worries, it's a good reminder!Van00220 (talk) 23:53, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

As you have continued vandalising my changes to Sikhism by Country, I guess you want some validification, I published a national estimate, leave it as the Official Census will be published on the 29th November, also my estimate source was used by the Times Of India in an article so please stop vandalising. I know you love Canada. I get it. 81.103.145.160 (talk) 12:36, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

You have not provided a single census source for the edited population figures. Will continue to revert the edits until you do so.Van00220 (talk) 22:56, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Apart from the Canadian one and maybe one or 2 others, the vast majority including the USA has used estimates, do you really think that they have exactly 700,000 sikhs, are you even Sikh? SirSpyro45 (talk) 18:04, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Estimates still require sources. This would not be an issue if you provide a source for the population estimate on the edited page(s).Van00220 (talk) 20:26, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Ok, thats done now SirSpyro45 (talk) 19:14, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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Mass charts being added all over

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April 2023

Please stop making the same errors again and again in your demographic table additions to BC-related articles. Don't use a colspan of 15 when most of tables you are adding stuff to have 11, not 15, columns, add "sortbottom" everywhere it's needed, use {{abbr}} for "n.i.e." and similar abbreviations, don't add hard linebreaks between "panethnic" and "group" (or anywhere, really), and don't capitalize "multiracial" when it's not the start of a heading. Here's my latest cleanup of one of your edits. —Joeyconnick (talk) 05:55, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

No problem. I have a blank template already written out as I've been gradually adding them onto most division and subdivision pages in Canada, so I'll make those changes. Cheers. Van00220 (talk) 00:34, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! —Joeyconnick (talk) Joeyconnick (talk) 02:00, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you. I have added a new discussion to the talk page instead. Van00220 (talk) 13:45, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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