User talk:Wirgensein

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Mass tag spamming

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see you just started editing in the beginning of September. We're always glad to see new people!

However: the edits you made on 12 September to Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia, Vladislav I of Wallachia, Radu I of Wallachia, Dan I of Wallachia, Mircea I of Wallachia, Dan I of Wallachia, Michael I of Wallachia, Vlad II Dracul, Vlad the Impaler and Radu cel Frumos consisted entirely of dozens of identical ^{[citation needed]} tags attached to literally every single line in these articles which did not already have an in-line citation. I have reverted all of these edits for the following reasons:

1) Tagging every single line is not required by policy, as only controversial/disputed statements or direct quotes from sources need to have the source attached as an inline citation. To put an inline cite on every single line is gross overkill and is not required, and to go through and put a ^{[citation needed]} tag on every line (especially without leaving any kind of a talk page message explaining yourself) is actually very disruptive to the users' ability to read the articles. It is known as "tag spam", and is considered disruptive editing and/or non-malicious vandalism. Additionally, most of your tags were malformed, inserted in the wrong places (such as in the middle of words) or otherwise detrimental.

Please do not make those same kinds of edits again. I say that in good faith, knowing you're just trying to help, because we were all new users once. :-)

2) Now that we've gotten that part out of the way, let me explain how you can help with improving these articles. Rule of thumb: only controversial, dubious or otherwise doubtful statements which do not have an attached inline citation should get a ^{[citation needed]} tag. If an entire section lacks inline citations, please put a section specific tag (such as Template:Refimprove_section) at the top of the relevant section. This is FAR less messy and disruptive to the readers and still gets the point across. Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 13:18, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

September 2013

This is your only warning; if you purposefully and blatantly harass a fellow Wikipedian again, as you did at User_talk:Court_Appointed_Shrub, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 20:16, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your use of multiple Wikipedia accounts

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wirgensein, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 20:34, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]