User talk:Vikasvadgama

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Problem with your custom signature

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The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.

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Solution 1: Reset your signature to the default:

1. Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
2. Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
3. Remove anything in the Signature: text box. (It might already be empty.)
4. Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page. (The red "Restore all default settings" button will reset all of your preference settings, not just the signature.)

Solution 2: Fix your custom signature:

1. Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
2. Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
3. Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

March 2022

Hello, I'm Fowler&fowler. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. I am sorry but you cannot remove citatiosn to major scholars of the field. You especially cannot alter the quotes from their scholarly works included in a citation. You also cannot use the edit summary argument "minor" lightly, when you are tampering with the edits in such a major fashion. Please read WP:SOURCETYPES, WP:SCHOLARSHIP and WP:TERTIARY. Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf are major scholars of South Asia and their work is a major tertiary source. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 11:32, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

ARBIPA sanctions alert

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Kautilya3 (talk) 11:38, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Fowler&fowler is being very kind to you. But I don't think kindness warranted. To come barging into a highly contentious subject, and make a series of fudging edits without any source or explation and labelling them as "minor changes" is not permitted. If you do this again, I will ask for you to be sanctioned. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:43, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Vikasvadgama

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. A tag has been placed on User:Vikasvadgama requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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