User talk:MariaVentro

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Welcome to Wikipedia, MariaVentro! Thank you for your contributions. I am Doug Weller and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Latino

Although Nishidani might have been a bit rude it was probably through frustration at Lauracerffer. It wasn't an attack on anyone. She's been making personal attacks on editors for some time, starting with attacking editors including me on another talk page. One of her worst attacks was removed from the Latino talk page. Personal attacks and ethnic attacks should not be made on Wikipedia and she was told that several times by me and others, and given 2 warnings by another WP:Administrator. She doesn't seem to like Americans (whom she says should be called "United Staters") or people from the UK if they are not Latino. And her viewpoint was affecting the article, which had a number of problems until some of us rewrote it. It can be confusing for someone whose native language isn't English to see a word from their own language being used in an English context. But that's the thing with words, the same word can mean different things or used in different ways in different languages, and when it comes to English sometimes a word can mean more than one thing, which is confusing to say the least.

She's a very inexperienced editor with only a bit over 250 edits, but sadly she wouldn't listen to experienced editors and has shown she has problems working with others. She's been blocked for 3 days, hopefully when she comes back she will calm down. Another thing that she#'s done at the Latino talk page which we ask editors not to do is discuss issues not directly relating to improving the article. That's another problem new users often have, thinking that they can have a general discussion of the subject of the article on the article talk page, the way you can do on other websites. But not here.

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And welcome to Wikipedia! Doug Weller talk 10:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For Your Information

You may not be aware that Wikipedia prohibits using more than one account to deceive or to circumvent sanctions. If you are the same person also registered with the account User:Lauracerffer, which seems likely given the relative timing of Laura Cerffer's block and the registration of this account, then you should stop using this account immediately, and read the policy about sockpuppets.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 13:39, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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