User talk:Wm.Tarr

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Sincerely, scope_creep^Talk 09:33, 17 April 2019 (UTC) (Leave me a message)[reply]

April 2019

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Kaffir lime has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

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The following is the log entry regarding this message: Kaffir lime was changed by Wm.Tarr (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.900602 on 2019-04-23T14:23:18+00:00

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 14:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed a comment that you added to the article. If you wish to discuss amendments to the article please use its talk page (Talk:Kaffir lime). Lineslarge (talk) 14:26, 23 April 2019 (UTC) (actually, I tried to remove the comment but was beaten to it by ClueBot Lineslarge (talk) 14:35, 23 April 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Edit Waring

If you have a dispute about the content, instead of reverting over and over again, leave it at the version before the dispute and talk about it on the talk page, also, please stop your WP:Personal attacks. LakesideMiners^{My Talk Page} 15:18, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

April 2019

Hello, I'm Aboideau. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Kaffir lime have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the help desk. Thanks. aboideau^talk 15:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as User talk:Aboideau are for discussion related to improving the encyclopedia in specific ways based on reliable sources and the project policies and guidelines, not for general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics, or statements based on your thoughts or feelings. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:50, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Personal attacks

In this public edit you have accused me of being an innate racist. You asked for help with the mess you were making ("I have probably gone about this wrong, help me, please.") and removing the three unreferenced edits you had made was the best way to restore the page to its currently agreed content ("reverted recent changes as requested"). You also referred to an automated editor (robot) as a "fuckwith" on your edit summary after it removed an unreferenced change you made on that page. While I don't care what the page is called, I realise you have an issue with it, as have several people in the past. Read the article's talk page to see what's been decided by other people before attempting to edit further. It seems that you don't understand how to edit on Wikipedia, so you might want to visit Help:Contents before doing anything more. Bazza (talk) 15:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Final warning

Hi, I'm sorry to interrupt you with your work, but you'll need to stop attacking other editors. Other users' next steps would else likely be requesting administrative intervention at WP:ANI, or a direct block by a watching administrator, whichever happens first. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Hi Wm.Tarr, I noticed that you left a message on my talk page.

Frankly, I have no opinion on the content that you were suggesting, and I'm not really interested in it -- the only reason I reverted your edit is because proposals belong on the talk page, not in the article body.

However, you are coming across as extremely confrontational, both in your edit summaries and on my talk page. One of Wikipedia's five pillars is civility, and it's really a bad idea to call other editors things like piece of shit and fuckwith[sic]. If I were you, I'd try to dial it down a little and try to discuss things on the talk page instead of edit warring with other editors about it.

I do realise that it's frustrating when other editors disagree with you. It's necessary to stay cool, however; you're heading straight for getting blocked right now. aboideau^talk 16:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Personal Attacks and Editwarning by User:Wm.Tarr. LakesideMiners^{My Talk Page} 16:26, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

September 2020

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The following is the log entry regarding this message: Penny sterling was changed by Wm.Tarr (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.979423 on 2020-09-29T18:44:21+00:00

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 18:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]