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March 2011

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Leonard Chess worked, and it has been reverted or removed. However, if you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. FalconL (talk) 16:40, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

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External links

Hello Blaine, in my opinion the links you added to articles such as Steve Martin and Joey Bishop do not meet the requirements of WP:EL. WP articles should not be repositories of links, and there is no reason to believe that the links to those interviews (on blogs) add to the article. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 19:52, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

• Please stop adding them. You may take this up at the relevant noticeboard, Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard, but for now I am removing them: it appears these are all spamlinks for a radio station's blog. Drmies (talk) 19:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

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January 2013

This is your last warning. The next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Jim Nabors, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. You have been told by User:Drmies about adding external links many times. Mlpearc (powwow) 18:16, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

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June 2014

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June 2023

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Onni Group. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. SounderBruce 21:49, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

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Politically biased and unsourced editing

One example: Special:Diff/1159634326/1170386961 .. no source says this group is funded by the Koch Brothers. Even if true, taken out of context is presents a misleading picture by cherry picking a single funding source to scare people with. Your other edits are generally unreliable, unsourced, opinionated, often factually wrong, politically biased, and overall don't last very long before people simply remove them. You need to learn how to cite sources and write in an objective manner that benefits all people, no only your own personal politics. -- GreenC 18:54, 30 December 2023 (UTC)