User talk:Thanto19

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Thanto19, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Timeline of the South China Sea dispute has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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May 2016

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Fiery Cross Reef— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:39, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2016

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Nine-dash line. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 22:17, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A reminder

Please stop attacking other editors. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. STSC (talk) 18:36, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Nine-Dash Line

1) Re: This edit
I'm sorry, but it can't be BOTH "undefined" and vaguely "defined" at the same time. (i.e. I do not understand what you are attempting to communicate.)
I agree that it can be BOTH "undefined" and "vaguely located". (But as I said, I do not understand what you are attempting to communicate.)
Help me please. Pdfpdf (talk) 10:11, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2) Re: This edit
What's the point? It seems to be trivial nit-picking, and not worthy of addition. If there is some significant issue, please tell us all what it is. Pdfpdf (talk) 10:11, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

it's vaguely because China does not tell where are these dashes exactly. It's undefined because we do not know what these dashes are.Thanto19 (talk) 14:05, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

South China Sea

Thanks for your useful edits. Pdfpdf (talk) 10:26, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(I continue to wait for your response to my previous post on this page. Pdfpdf (talk) 10:26, 12 October 2017 (UTC))[reply]

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