User talk:Wikidrifterr

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October 2023[edit]

Hi Wikidrifterr! I noticed that you recently marked your edit as minor when you deleted a chunk of cited text from the Economy of Bihar. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Your edit was clearly not a minor edit. Thank you. -- Toddy1 (talk) 17:44, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to the Economy of Bihar deleted a lot of cited text with the explanation in your edit summary removed data with incorrect citations. You need to explain this on the article talk page, and get agreement for this edit before it can be accepted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 17:44, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User degree[edit]

{{User degree/Computer Science}} produces an error. I think you are trying to achieve

Wikidrifterr has a Computer Science degree.

-- Toddy1 (talk) 18:20, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023[edit]

Hello, I'm Sumanuil. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Uttar Pradesh have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. - Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 03:03, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Favoured versus favored[edit]

The words "favoured" and "favored" mean the same thing.

"favoured" is English
"favored" is American English

If you are writing about the U.S.A. please use the American English spelling. If you are writing about the rest of the world, please use the English spelling. See MOS:ENGVAR.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC) It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 22:53, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have reversed a couple of spelling changes you made to the articles on Beowulf and River Cuckmere. Both subjects are connected to the United Kingdom, so British English should be used. TSventon (talk) 03:09, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024[edit]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Borjigin has an edit summary that appears to be inadequate, inaccurate, or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 03:16, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Association football, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 03:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at K. Annamalai, you may be blocked from editing. Curbon7 (talk) 04:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notice[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 03:46, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction to contentious topics[edit]

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refrain from gaming the system.

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Wikidrifterr. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page K. Annamalai, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. El_C 06:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey El C, just wanted to let you know this user has already had a CT alert [1], a couple of weeks ago. They've blanked their talk page since - so you couldn't necessarily be expected to see it - but I wanted to let you know in case it changed what you meant to say to them. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:42, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Doug Weller talk 17:11, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]