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Eras

Please don't replace era notation like you did in [1] and [2]. See WP:MOSDATE#Eras. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 01:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Same rule, different article [3]. — Kralizec! (talk) 02:31, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that BP (before present) and BC (before Christ) are NOT equivalent, as you did here on Wales article: [4] --76.201.142.180 (talk) 08:18, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is your fourth warning. Do not replace era notation as you did on Agora (film). Viriditas (talk) 02:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to History of National Football League Championship. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If it is a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If the page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. Aka042 (talk) 13:50, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The recent edit you made to History of National Football League Championship constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to remove content from articles without explanation. Thank you. Aka042 (talk) 13:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Aka042 I deleted that section of the page concerning the History of the National Football League Championship because that particular section was a duplicate of a previous section earlier in the page. At least that is how it looked when I logged on. I didn't mean to cause any problems. Just look at the page and see if that section that I deleted was duplicated on the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.115.232.65 (talk) 14:16, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dynasty (sports)

Thank you for your recent edits to this article. However, for purposes of this article, it's not enough to give a citation showing records and championships. In order not to run afoul of Wikipedia's rules against synthesis and original research, we need to have a reliable source stating that it is a dynasty. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 15:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that source, I've added in all the other dynasties mentioned there. cmadler (talk) 17:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minnesota Vikings

I don't really care which way it's listed...but the page is on my watchlist and it's getting kind of old watching the slow-motion edit war over championships in the infobox. Is there a discussion somewhere that discusses the way that this is supposed to be presented? It doesn't appear that discuss your edits much, having only a pair of talk page comments and no edit summaries that I can see. You might find your edit reverted less frequently if you explained why you continue to make it. --Onorem ♠Dil 14:50, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SEC football standing templates

Sullivan, I have noticed your work on these templates. If you can knock them out for each year in complete decades (e.g. 1980–1989), I will gladly add them to the Florida Gators football season-decade pages (e.g., "Florida Gators football, 1980–1989"). Thanks, and keep up the good work. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:33, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:1976 Southeastern football standings

Template:1976 Southeastern football standings has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jweiss11 (talk) 18:20, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ERA violations, again

Per WP:ERA, where it says "Do not change from one style to another unless there is substantial reason for the change, and consensus for the change with other editors", do not change date styles as you did here on the Louisiana article. Since the last time you were warned for this, in 2009 and 2010 multiple times over multiple articles, this policy ab out arbitrarily changing from one date style to another has not changed.

You also did this in May 2012 here [5], you removed the CE style from an article in March 2012 here, and changed style here in November of 2011. You are a serial violator of this policy. Please do not repeat this WP:DISRUPTIVE policy violating behavior again or I will take this matter to WP:ANI to have admins deal with this issue. Thank you and have a nice day. He iro 18:19, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Heiro has a problem with neutrality. Heiro is not confortable with any notions with leanings to other religions than Heiro's own. If one article should have just one date system, why Heiro have deleted all edits wich unified all dates to majority in that article in the case of BC/AD, but let all the edits with BCE and BC to stay? Sorry, but Heiro has a double standard... and a big problem to climb over in the field of scientific thinking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.157.92.31 (talk) 12:07, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2017

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. UW Dawgs (talk) 01:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. UW Dawgs (talk) 10:02, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

UW Dawgs Here is a letter I received from the Director of Athletic Communications at the University of Washington. Hi Sully,

The answer, unfortunately, is that there is no "definitive answer."

The list in the media guide is of polls or organizations that declared Washington as "National Champion" for those years. We neither claim nor "don't claim" those. They just are facts. We "claim" the two that are up in the stadium, but it's up to any individual to decide what counts, since there is no NCAA Division I-A (or Division I-FBS) champion. Even in the era of the College Football Playoff, the winner of the tournament isn't an NCAA champion. Best wishes, Jeff

-- Jeff Bechthold Director of Athletic Communications University of Washington c: 206-473-8657 t: @jeffbechthold bechtold@uw.edu

GO PURPLE. BE GOLD.

December 16 2017

Thank you for your edits during this year for the Washington Huskies football page. However, you have been making substantial changes to the "Championships" season without providing convincing reasons.

I have noticed you made almost identical but significant changes such as removing several subsections created by early editors during August, October, and December. Again, none of these changes came with clear, convincing reasons or notes. Your edits also led to several mistakes on the page, such as confusing "Division Champions" with "Conference Champions." If you wish to remove "Division Champions" subsection (actually most other pages about college football teams have this subsection), please provide reasons and do not enter "Conference Champions" information under the "Division Champions" tab. Unfortunately, to maintain quality and consistency of the page, several other editors had to revert your changes more than once. Due to reasons above, one of the users who undid your changes marked your edits as "page/content blanking." Per Wikipedia:Disruptive editing protocols, someone may request an administrator via Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (ANI) if regular page editors reach consensus on reverting your edits. Please provide your convincing reasons for such edits so we will consider accepting your changes. Thanks so much and happy editing. J1n9 (talk) 02:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

January 2018

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia. UW Dawgs (talk) 00:36, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

UW Dawgs (talk

Here is a letter I received from the Director of Athletic Communications at the University of Washington. Hi Sully,

The answer, unfortunately, is that there is no "definitive answer."

The list in the media guide is of polls or organizations that declared Washington as "National Champion" for those years. We neither claim nor "don't claim" those. They just are facts. We "claim" the two that are up in the stadium, but it's up to any individual to decide what counts, since there is no NCAA Division I-A (or Division I-FBS) champion. Even in the era of the College Football Playoff, the winner of the tournament isn't an NCAA champion. Best wishes, Jeff

-- Jeff Bechthold Director of Athletic Communications University of Washington c: 206-473-8657 t: @jeffbechthold bechtold@uw.edu

GO PURPLE. BE GOLD.

Please read WP:DE, the activity in which you appear to be engaged. Then please read WP:NOR, which addresses the above. Finally, College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS is a good article to familiarize yourself with the complexity. UW Dawgs (talk) 01:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm a writer at Sports Illustrated hoping to get in touch with you for a story on the UCF football team. Could you find me on Twitter at @stephapstein? (I'm new to this so not sure I want to post my email address on what appears to be an open page, but happy to DM it to you so we can proceed.) Thank you! Stephaniesi (talk) 16:21, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2018

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So I guess when I source my material from the University of Notre Dame's own website, it is wrong. Only YOU can decide if the material is accurate. (talk)

There was no sourcing offered in either[6] [7] of your WP:DE edits. UW Dawgs (talk) 00:11, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I added a source this time.

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September 2018

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did on Missouri Tigers football. This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Drmies (talk) 23:57, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Purdue Boilermakers football. Specifically, you recently removed[8] Purdue's 1931 Parke Davis national championship without using an WP:edit summary. Please do not inaccurately remove national championship content. That content has been restored with supporting citations.[9] UW Dawgs (talk) 21:58, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Template:Maryland Terrapins football navbox. Specifically, you again removed accurate college football national championship content, this time from Maryland.[10] The Maryland Terrapins football article now shows citations for multiple selectors awarding Maryland a 1951 national championship. This edit was also done without an WP:edit summary. Please stop your ongoing vandalism of college football national championship content, instead use Talk pages to discuss if you are confused. UW Dawgs (talk) 21:58, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

National championship content in multiple articles/template

Please be aware that college football national content exists in at least four locations for a given team-year selection.

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The team YYYY articles (Ex, 1931 Purdue Boilermakers football team)
The team's template (Ex, Template:Purdue Boilermakers football navbox)
The topic's list article (College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS)

By inconsistently editing one location and not the others, you are creating cleanup work for other editors to reconcile. If you are confused, please ask -this explicitly does not imply that you need permission to edit, it is only a callout that others are willing to assist you and you historically do not engage on article Talk pages. Additionally, it is significantly easier to state and cite "XYZ university claims the 19xx national championship," rather than "XYZ does not claim the national championship." You'll be much more successful citing something that can be observed and affirmed, rather than the reverse. UW Dawgs (talk) 22:12, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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