User talk:CloseToYouTheCure
October 2024
[edit]Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Gallery of flags of dependent territories, 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. SlightlyToastedCheesecake (talk) 15:33, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia by deliberately introducing incorrect information. CMD (talk) 03:22, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Probably the messages above were not as helpful as they might have been; telling you that edits "did not appear to be constructive", with no attempt whatever to explain why they did not appear to be constructive, as SlightlyToastedCheesecake did, is unlikely to help you to understand what the problems are, and I don't see any reason to think that you are not making sincere, even if mistaken, attempts to make constructive edits, so that regarding your editing as vandalism, as Chipmunkdavis did, is probably a mistake. However, I'm afraid your edits really aren't helpful. You have repeatedly added to Gallery of flags of dependent territories entries which are not dependent territories; in some cases they are merely regional territories within sovereign states, without any element of independence, in other cases they are proposed entities wirhout any current status, and so on. I very strongly recommend that you stop trying to do this kind of thing, as you are just getting it wrong, and making work for other editors, who have to spend time checking and reverting your editing. There are many other kinds of useful contributions you can make instead. It's important to realise that if you continue in the same way then you will be blocked from editing by a administrator. JBW (talk) 18:32, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
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Sincerely, Ad Orientem (talk) (Leave me a message) 18:42, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Ad Orientem (talk) 18:42, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
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