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Hello, TurkYusuf1! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Jonathon A H (talk) 15:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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The reference you used for the Turkish Armed Forces budget was actually an older, outdated copy of a Wikipedia page, and one which was uncited itself. Usually it's not a good idea to use another Wiki page (Wikipedia or otherwise) as a reference as the information is easily edited/changed. Please see: Wikipedia:Verifiability and specifically Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia and sources that mirror or use it for further explanation. I've reverted the changes you made to the page as a result. You may also find Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners to be of some help. - Jonathon A H (talk) 15:11, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since you apparently didn't read the links I offered, I'm going to go ahead and quote the relevant section: "Articles on Wikipedia, or on websites that mirror its content, should not be used as sources, because this would amount to self-reference. Similarly, editors should not use sources that present material originating from Wikipedia to support that same material in Wikipedia, as this would create circular sourcing—Wikipedia citing a source that derives its material from Wikipedia. Wikipedia may be cited with caution as a primary source of information on itself, such as in articles about itself.". If you check the bottom of the page you've been quoting, you'll see that it's from Wikipedia. It's just mirrored on that site. Not only that, but it's an old, out of date, and unreferenced version. The CIA World Factbook is freely available online. Why don't you go there and see if you can find the military budget for Turkey? If you can, then that's a verifiable source, not an old Wikipedia article which claims to use it as a source, but is completely unreferenced. Or is it just that the information isn't there, or doesn't suit your idea of what the Turkish budget is? - Jonathon A H (talk) 16:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Hello, TurkYusuf1. You have new messages at Jonathon A H's talk page.
Message added 19:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Your recent edits

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IRAN

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Hi, your edit in this article was reverted. Please have a look at this page,too. Thanks for your cooperation. *** in fact *** ( contact ) 05:22, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Turkey

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I have moved your sentence to another place(military section). Kavas (talk) 22:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thank you, I though someone had just removed the sentence completely from the page, but thank you for the heads up, it should be on the military section thanks for the change. TurkYusuf1 (talk) 10:28, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages/Discussion

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I see you haven't used any of the article talk pages once ("Discussion"); maybe you don't even know they exist. Meanwhile, you've been engaging in a slow edit-war over the population-figues @ Turkey. The corresponding talk page is Talk:Turkey. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 07:07, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I'm quite new to the editing stuff on Wikipedia, sorry I don't qualify for your expectations and spend all my time on editing wikipedia, I have a life outside of here you know, I can't spend my whole time trying to figure out every single detail on how to properly use the stuff here. Actually I do know how to use the article talk page, but I don't know what you mean exactly, you don't have to put your name at everything you edit, it shows anyway. I just put some information from a reliable website like CIA and reference it, until a better encyclopedic source comes up I use the source I know which falls under the category of reliable sources as indicated in the referencing page, which talks about using only encyclopedic sources. I'm done with the population figure on Turkey as a government source (which is fairly reliable) has been given as before no proper source was given or an old outdated figure was used to show inaccurate figures. TurkYusuf1 (talk) 21:06, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

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Informational note: this is to let you know that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Regards, Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 08:10, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]