User talk:Sprayitchyo

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Ways to improve Arabs in Sweden[edit]

Hi, I'm Sulfurboy. Sprayitchyo, thanks for creating Arabs in Sweden!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. 2

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Arabs in Sweden (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

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Arabs in the Netherlands (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

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Name of picture[edit]

Can you give a link to the picture of Wissam al-Hassan that you are trying to add, and I will do it for you. Thanks, hydrox (talk) 18:16, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but this image can not be used in English Wikipedia. It's a "non-free" image, meaning no one has published it under a free license (such as Creative Commons), so that it could be used on Wikipedia. Some non-free images can be used in Wikipedia nevertheless (fair use subject to the non-free content criteria), but this photo is not suitable due to commercial reasons: its copyright is apparently owned by the French press agency AFP (for example this page credits it as "AFP FILE PHOTO"). The guideline on using non-free images specifically lists "photo from a press or photo agency (e.g., AP, Corbis or Getty Images)" as an example of an image that can not be used under fair use. I found another image, but sadly its copyright is apparently owned in turn by Reuters, another press agency. I guess we'll have to just live without an image :/ --hydrox (talk) 21:11, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway as you said "we'll have to just live without an image :/" Thanks for you intention to help me. Have a happy new year. Sprayitchyo (talk) 21:49, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

January 2014[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Please stop this, there are no sources that include Iraq and/or the Arabian peninsula in this region. I removed the Greater Marshiq map due to there being no source that include Arabia and Sudan. As for the map of Mashiq, it includes Iraq which is not in this region but not Egypt which is. This makes it inaccurate and misleading. Despite being already told this you continue too revert my edits. It also appears that you are using sockpuppetry (IPs 99.240.220.159 and 109.124.167.153) which is also not allowed. AcidSnow (talk) 18:21, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changing quotes[edit]

I recently saw this edit of yours where you noticed that the numbers in the quote couldn't be correct and tried to fix that. But you obviously didn't look at what the source really says: It's not what you turned the quote into, either. Next time when trying to fix a quote from a given source, please take a look at the source itself. Huon (talk) 11:06, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2014[edit]

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Bobcats 23 (talk) 21:29, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Iranians in Lebanon[edit]

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Lebanese people[edit]

I'm not reverting you, but blogs and the Big Issue fail our guidelines at WP:RS, so could you please revert them? The Daily Star is a bit iffy, it's a minor tabloid newspaper. Dougweller (talk) 07:17, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2015[edit]

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April 2015[edit]

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May 2015[edit]

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Maronites[edit]

Thanks for your edit and change of the flag. It was the right one. I do not know how I missed to correct it.MaronitePride (talk) 02:14, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Ashkenazi Jews in Israel[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Ashkenazi Jews in Israel requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from https://rudhro.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/helen-thomas-retires-in-wake-of-anti-israel-remarks/ and https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=&oldid=669547741&action=compare&url=http://rudhro.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/helen-thomas-retires-in-wake-of-anti-israel-remarks/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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From what I see Sprayitchyo copied the source from the article (link Ashkenazi_Jews#Israel). I hope this will clear the issue. MaronitePride (talk) 20:44, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks reasonable. In this case Sprayitchyo didn't violate any policy, but someone else who added this paragraph to Ashkenazi_Jews did. “WarKosign ” 21:32, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your understanding. Possibly someone else violated the policy. MaronitePride (talk) 21:58, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, MaronitePride is right, someone else violated the policy. MaronitePride thanks for your help. Sprayitchyo (talk) 22:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

French Jews in Israel/Russian Jews in Israel=[edit]

Categories on both of the pages were alphabetically in order and already well refined. I don't see why my edits had to be reverted. Backendgaming (talk) 01:46, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Israeli people of Ashkenazi-Jewish descent[edit]

Category:Israeli people of Ashkenazi-Jewish descent, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Huon (talk) 09:17, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bedouin[edit]

You have been editing the opening sentence of the Bedouin page from saying they are an ethnic group to an "ethnocultural" group. "Ethnocultural" has no meaning of it's own past a synonym of ethnoreligious group - something you oddly neither use nor link. Please provide sources for your edits, or engage in the discussion section I created in the talk page after reverting your first edit (here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bedouin#.22Ethnic.22_or_.22Ethnoreligious.22_Group.3F), otherwise your behaviour will be reported to an administrator. SaSH172 (talk) 17:27, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ban evasion[edit]

This user has engaged in extensive ban evasion including as recently as May, 2019. --Yamla (talk) 11:59, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Lebanon[edit]

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