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Speedy deletion nomination of Snowdrops and Edelweiss

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A tag has been placed on Snowdrops and Edelweiss 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. 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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Problem with your custom signature

You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.

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

The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.

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. Thank you. 18:03, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Ways to improve The Island of Christianity: Armenia & Artsakh

Hello, Timewind,

Thank you for creating The Island of Christianity: Armenia & Artsakh.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

The article is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Amkgp}}. Remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

— Amkgp 💬 18:04, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing re Garik Israelian

Hello, Timewind. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Garik Israelian, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. or any articles related to Garik Israelian's work such as Starmus Festival Grorp (talk) 01:09, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Timewind, thank you for posting the Financial Times article in the Garik Israelian article; that article was a useful source. The elpais.com article didn't say anything new (that I could find). Grorp (talk) 01:09, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Do you propose to remove it? for long you live and high you fly 15:43, 10 March 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timewind (talk • contribs)

Regarding your edit summary, "All edits done here by me are aligned with him in advance. For any change propose, please contact me in advance!", that's an impermissible stance to take on Wikipedia. There is no ownership of articles, which are absolutely not to be treated as a web presence maintained or controlled by or on behalf of their subjects. Largoplazo (talk) 09:57, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Agreed, I will take this into consideration. for long you live and high you fly 15:40, 10 March 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timewind (talk • contribs)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Garik Israelian. The discussion is about the topic Garik Israelian. Thank you. —Grorp (talk) 00:34, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

As an "official representative" in your own words, you should understand that you don't own or have control over his Wikipedia biography or any other related articles, and should defer to the judgement of uncompromised editors and limited to making suggestions on the talkpage. It is grossly inappropriate and rude to call people spammers for edits that are clearly not spam.

Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:59, 11 March 2023 (UTC)