User talk:Lawrence 979

November 2020

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to 117th United States Congress—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't remove exact dates from the lead. It is common practice to give the date. DrKay (talk) 19:46, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

December 2020

Please stop changing the dates of accession for the English and British monarchs. These individuals acceded at the point of their predecessors death. Tiderolls 19:47, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is your only warning; if you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. You've been asked twice not to remove dates. Until consensus is clear, editors should not continue with a series edits once they've been asked to desist. DrKay (talk) 19:49, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content 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. Hardyplants (talk) 20:15, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Warning

You need to slow down and seek the guidance of experienced editors. Even though I'm an administrator I will not block you as I have reverted some of your edits. I can tell you, though, that if you continue as you have been a complaint will most certainly be made that you are disrupting the project. Please be more careful to communicate with your fellow editors. Tiderolls 20:20, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

January 2021

Hello, I'm Schistocyte. Your recent edit(s) to the page Inauguration of Donald Trump appear to have added incorrect information, so they have been removed for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Schistocyte ^(talk) 19:43, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

March 2021

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Tommy Tuberville. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Stop adding this. We don't know that it will happen. Tuberville could die. Tuberville could decide to retire. Shelby could change his mind. Meters (talk) 19:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Thom Tillis, you may be blocked from editing. Bump to level 3. Same thing on this article, but even worse since you are restoring a version which is not only WP:CRYSTALBALL, but incorrect. Meters (talk) 19:29, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary, as you did at Susan Collins. 331dot (talk) 22:09, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You were explicitly warned above not to remove page content without giving a valid reason for removal in the edit summary, but you've just done exactly that.[1] You will be blocked if you continue your disruptive editing. DrKay (talk) 12:16, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

May 2021

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. Thanks! Grogudicae👽 17:32, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

June 2021

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. 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.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. FDW777 (talk) 19:21, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. FDW777 (talk) 19:57, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Signing posts

Please review WP:SIGHOW, it has info on how to sign posts. {{u|SamStrongTalks}} ^(Talk) 20:34, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

For edit warring and violating the three revert rule, you have been partially blocked for a period of 24 hours from editing John F. Kennedy. As you have been participating in the discussion (which is good), but have continued to edit war while doing so (which is not), you will remain able to edit Talk:John F. Kennedy to continue your participation there. Further edit warring will lead to additional sanctions. Should you wish to appeal this decision, please review the guide to appealing blocks. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 13:01, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Summaries

You have already been warned above to use edit summaries. Please do. I do see that you are new and probably not used to how to write edit summaries. I came here because I thought the edit summary for this edit confusing and somewhat misleading. There you wrote:

Altered 'elections - 2022' to make more grammatical sense

First: That's confusing. It sounds like you were saying you corrected the text "election - 2022". But what you meant was that you edited a sentence within the section election - 2022. Here are some alternative edit summaries for that aspect of the edit that would be less confusing:

(1) changed sentence to make more grammatically correct

(2) improved confusing sentence

(3) improved sentence

(4) copy edit

(5) ce

Yes, "ce" is acceptable if all you are doing is copy editing like that where you are not making significant changes to meaning.

Second: You did more than make the one sentence grammatically correct. You also added more material from the reference--the date the resignation was effective. That should be in the edit summary as well. That's the more concerning of the two issues.

Regardless of these admonishments, thanks for coming to wikipedia to edit. I sense your work is good faith. --David Tornheim (talk) 06:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:2022 Lagan Valley by-election

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Is soccer mixed-sex?

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February 2023

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Hi Lawrence 979! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Annabel Goldie that may not have been. "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. This also applies at Equality Act (United States) where you changed "Referred to Judiciary committee" to "Died in committee". It may or may not be correct, but it does change the meaning so it's not minor. XAM2175 ^(T) 01:50, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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November 2024

Hi Lawrence 979! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at 2004 United States presidential election that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a 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. Thank you. Happily888 (talk) 14:21, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]