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North Shore Country Day School

Please note that Wikipedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view; one of your recent edits at North Shore Country Day School appeared to insert non-neutral language with a promotional tone. Also, per Wikipedia's school article guideline, listings of "notable" alumni and staff must meet Wikipedia's guideline for defining notability, which can be found at WP:BIO. The majority of the names added in your recent edits have not as yet been shown to meet that notability threshold. I'm not saying that they can't meet it, only that at this time they have not yet been shown to meet that threshold. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:12, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are still undoing other people's edits without explaining yourself in edit summaries. This change re-created a line that doesn't have any effect in the article; it appears to be an undo simply because you like to hit the undo link. Your next change, by returning to a much more different earlier edit, destroyed sources, re-introduced unsourced puffery such as "highly selective", and otherwise introduced defects that had been removed, in violation of several Wikipedia guidelines. When you hit the undo link, you are responsible for any changes it makes, just as if you edited it by hand. Because you have done this repeatedly, and have not provided any reasons in edit summaries, other users are likely to interpret further undos by you as vandalism rather than real edits. Please discuss your reasons for each change at Talk:North Shore Country Day School and get consensus before making large changes like this again. Thank you. --Closeapple (talk) 01:25, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Diller Street Journal

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April 2014

Hello, I'm AldezD. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Baker Demonstration School, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. AldezD (talk) 20:40, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at North Shore Country Day School.
You have repeatedly inserted unsourced content that fails WP:NPOV as well as restoring large number of individuals that fail WP:BIO and should not be listed per WP:SCH/AG. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:12, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation

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Blocked for sockpuppetry

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Student publication

It would require truly exceptional circumstances for a publication written by school pupils to satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Unless you have really good evidence of satisfying those guidelines, my advice is not to spend time and trouble on trying to get an article on the subject, as any such time and trouble is likely to be wasted, with the article being deleted. Also, you statement that "information is low right now" is a pretty clear acknowledgement that the subject does not satisfy the notability guidelines, and we do not accept articles on the basis of speculation about what may possibly happen in the future. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 08:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May 2014

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Independent School League (Illinois). This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Dougweller (talk) 05:30, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User Lafayette College

I see you have updated Lafayette College. If you are a student or graduate of Lafayette, add {{User Lafayette College}} to your User page. GO LEOPARDS!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 17:01, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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reliable sources

Hi there. On Wikipedia, we use reliable sources when providing citations for statements. User-generated websites, like Wikipedia itself, are not considered reliable sources, so you can't use them as citations. Thus, when you add alumni to the Vanderbilt University article, you need to find outside websites that confirm the information you're seeking to add, not other Wikipedia articles. Esrever ^(klaT) 13:49, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Esrever and Dallascowboysftw: There is also a major problem with self-published sources being added as sources (a fairly recent development). They have to be third-party, which is not the case here. This is a nightmare as it creates a lot of work for other editors. Would you have time to replace them with RS from books or Newspapers.com please?Zigzig20s (talk) 05:57, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

December 2017

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Vanderbilt University. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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February 2018

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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2018–19 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team moved to draftspace

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Your submission at Articles for creation: 2018–19 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team has been accepted

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Your submission at Articles for creation: List of Chancellors of Vanderbilt University (September 6)

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Ways to improve 2018–19 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team

Hi, I'm Rosguill. Dallascowboysftw, thanks for creating 2018–19 Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. The article looks good but you need to provide sources.

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April 2019

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Proposed deletion of Khari Blasingame

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