User talk:Nick876436

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Reference errors on 4 October[edit]

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October 2016[edit]

Please stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced biographical content, especially if controversial, to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Peter Higgs. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mlpearc (open channel) 01:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Peter Higgs. Mlpearc (open channel) 16:27, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Higgs boson. Mlpearc (open channel) 17:27, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Peter Higgs shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Edit warring[edit]

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. - Mlpearc (open channel) 00:32, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016[edit]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. - Mlpearc (open channel) 01:04, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 17 October[edit]

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On the Science and technology in the United Kingdom page, your edit caused a broken reference name (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

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November 2016[edit]

Your addition to Incandescent light bulb has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. The text you added to the article was almost a word-for-word copy from the Guardian article. Also, I'd prefer a more authoritative source; the material you cited is at the "Sunday Supplement" level. Jeh (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trevithick[edit]

It is contrary to Wikipedia practice to add him to the English categories as he is already included in the child categories. DuncanHill (talk) 01:49, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]