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Your contributed article, Sony T Series cameras

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Speedy deletion nomination of Haughton Elevator Company

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Loch Ness Monster

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Talk:New Russia Party

Please discuss at Talk:New Russia Party#Ideology Confusion. Deleting information from cited sources that you do not like is not the answer.--Toddy1 (talk) 06:01, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

RE: Donetsk People's Republic Flag

It's okay! The first article was located at Flag of the Donetsk People's Republic; however, since Wikipedia consensus has established that it should be deleted (deletion discussion here), it's no longer available. Hope that helps, § DDima 04:58, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Since the first article was deleted, would that mean the article I created was deleted by mistake? Elevatorrailfan (talk) 05:04, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Well , since the first article was already deleted, creating a second one would not necessarily be correct since Wikipedia editors have established consensus that the article should not exist in the first place. There is a reason why it was deleted, and it is listed in that discussion that I linked to above. I would recommend not to recreate it, or rather place the information somewhere else regarding the DNR... § DDima 07:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Symbols of the Donetsk People's Republic for deletion

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Nomination of Commonwealth of Ireland for deletion

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History of Czechoslovakia (1945–48)

Please dont edit articles you dont know anything about. Name of article is History of Czechoslovakia (1945–48) no (1945-1960). (1948-1989) is article Communist Czechoslovakia which was communist only the name has changed to "Socialist". Thanks --ThecentreCZ (talk) 12:32, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Minor edits

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12 September 2014

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Colony of New South Wales

Please note that the colony of New South Wales is not the same as the present New South Wales. The original colony included most of the Australian mainland, extending west into what is now Western Australia. It's placement in an irrelevant section of New South Wales can be confusing to non-Australian readers. The infobox is more appropriately placed in History of New South Wales]. --AussieLegend (✉) 10:27, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Donetsk edit-warring

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Your contributed article, Ireland (1937-1949)

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Infobox successors and predecessors

I agree with ‎Tóraí, on articles about states, keep the predecessors and successors as states only. Otherwise we could add Scotland as a successor to Kingdom of Scotland, and so on. It's unnecessary and confusing. That said, the obvious exception is when the article's about a subdivision itself, like Southern Ireland. Regards, Rob984 (talk) 10:18, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Ireland (1937-1949) for deletion

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Edit warring on History of Estonia

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Edit warring on Dutch government-in-exile

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Edit warring on Estonian government-in-exile

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Edit warring on Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

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Your edit at Greek military junta

Hi there. I have reverted your edit at Greek military junta because most of your revert was not compliant with WP:MOS. You introduced short dashes where years are supposed to be separated by long dashes. Further, year intervals are not supposed to repeat the whole year for the end year. Also you eliminated the definitive article in front of "Turkish invasion", an action which introduced a grammatical mistake to the article. Going forward, please be more careful with your reversals. Thank you in advance. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 18:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

My apologies, I forgot to check all of the differences between revisions. All I intended to do was to change the government section in the infobox. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 18:27, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for understanding. I'm not sure about that part of your edit but if you want to discuss it or implement it is up to you. Best regards. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 18:33, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Breach of the three-revert rule

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February 2015

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Please stop recreating deleted content

It was determined in a community discussion that NO ARTICLE should exist on the brief entity that existed for a day. If you continue to create such an article, in defiance of the administrative action that deleted it, I will be forced to request new administrative action to enforce the prior closure. RGloucester — ☎ 05:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

My apologizes, I was not aware that the community discussion determined that there should not be an article of the Republic of Crimea Breakaway State that existed in 2014. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 19:50, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Liberland

Can you please update your Liberland.svg file to include Liberty Island as part of its territory? Currently you only have the mainland highlighted.

Thanks! Terrorist96 (talk) 06:55, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Liberty Island is highlighted, it kind of looks like the mainland because the river and border line look similar. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 11:34, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

No, it's not. Please look again. Terrorist96 (talk) 16:03, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

The bottom of the Liberland about section on their website has multiple maps that show where Liberland is location, those maps are what I used as a source to create Location_of_Liberland_within_Europe..svg. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 16:14, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

This includes Liberty Island. This does not. Terrorist96 (talk) 16:57, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Those two are the same. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 17:29, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

What?? Are you actually looking? The first image includes Liberty Island within the border, the second image has Liberty Island colored grey instead of green. Please just fix this... Terrorist96 (talk) 17:53, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

I see, I thought you were talking about all of Liberland.

Nope. Liberty Island is part of Liberland. Liberland ≠ Liberty Island. =) Terrorist96 (talk) 18:21, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

I see that you updated the image, but Liberty Island still isn't highlighted. Terrorist96 (talk) 18:59, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Sometimes when I update vector images, it takes a while for it to change. I don't know why that happens. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 19:37, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Weird. I'm still seeing the old version. Terrorist96 (talk) 05:38, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

I am also still seeing the old version, typically it updates itself in a few days. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 05:40, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Hey, I'm noticing that the place that's marked as Liberland's location is slightly off. Currently, it looks like it borders Bosnia and Serbia, as opposed to Croatia and Serbia. The arrow needs to be moved more north. Could you fix this? Thanks! Terrorist96 (talk) 04:05, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Dialects and languages?

It is not clear to me that a set of dialects is not a language, as you said in 1 or 2 recent edit summaries. You might want to engage with editors on the article talk pages, before changing a large number of article infoboxes. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 07:56, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

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Ohio townships

Stop adding unsourced information to Ohio township articles, as adding information without verification, whether via inline citations or via the maps presented in the article, is disruptive and contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Nyttend (talk) 02:36, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

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Request reason:

Your reason here I was told if I CONTINUED to add certain information. I have not re added that information since then. All I did was add a source and remove unsourced information that was separate from the other information.

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After the last warning indeed no unsourced information was added, and if sourced information was removed I didn't see the sources. This seems more of a misunderstanding than deliberate disruption. Huon (talk) 16:29, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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Sorry, the block was for removing sourced information, despite being warned concerning the Ohio townships.– Gilliam (talk) 04:36, 8 February 2016 The only information that I removed in Ohio townships was unsourced information. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 05:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC) (UTC)

You have also been engaged in an edit war here among other similar places.– Gilliam (talk) 05:26, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Just dropping in to look at this block. There seems to be a bit of a feud between Elevatorrailfan and Nyttend. I think both editors need to stop their edit warring and go use the talk page, or, preferably WP:DRN. Did Nyttend get a block? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:09, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Elevatorrailfan has been persistently adding unsourced information to articles, plus hoaxing by adding a source that plainly didn't back up his additions; see the warning I gave just above here for the first, and this for the second]. Following that warning, he immediately began deleting information that was backed up by maps in articles (see the last three edits to Hardy Township, Holmes County, Ohio), embodying the fifth example in WP:POINT. Nyttend (talk) 12:25, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

If I had a penny every time I saw an IP add some unsourced information to an article that turned out to be possible to source and factually true (or at least believable) I could retire. Beulah Beach, Ohio says "It is located within Vermilion Township" so certainly that information added by Elevatorrailfan appears to be plausible from my outsider view. I see good faith attempts to improve the encyclopedia. As I said, I suggest going to the talk page or DRN; remember that new or inexperienced users won't necessarily know the ins and outs of citation templates, and threatening them with warnings and blocks is probably counter-productive. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:42, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I have accepted the unblock request but would ask Elevatorrailfan to make sure their future edits are backed up by reliable sources. I would ask Nyttend to be a little less bitey and to try whether others' edits can be improved and sourced instead of blindly reverting. Just to take your own example of Hardy Township, Holmes County, Ohio: All the information about Millersburg, Ohio that Elevatorrailfan added is contained in the Millersburg, Ohio article, with sources. Would adding the sources have been that much more difficult than clicking "Undo"? Huon (talk) 16:29, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Michigan and Minnesota

I've again restored the information you removed from the Demographics sections of these two articles. The first time, I was concerned that you'd removed valid information without explanation; and the second time because, after reviewing a variety of other state articles, I determined that the information you removed appears to be reported, in more or less the same fashion, in the majority of articles about individual states. (I confess I did not look at all 50 and it is of course possible that my sample was not representative, but that's what I discovered after looking at maybe 8 states.) The information is commonly reported, and is of long-standing in both these articles; that being the case I suggest you raise the issue of its removal on the articles' Talk pages rather than just remove it again. Perhaps too there is a project page that lays out a relevant guideline or practice - I looked at WP:Demographics and WP:STATES but neither obviously would have the right information. I'll keep looking but there too suggest you do the same, while the articles remain as they have been. Thanks! JohnInDC (talk) 10:58, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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The borders of Tibet here are not depicted correctly. If I provide you an accurate source, could you correct them?--Antemister (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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Turkey coup

Hey, I hope you reverted my edit by mistake.. check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt&diff=729982772&oldid=729982732 --M4r51n (talk) 22:44, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Strange, I thought I reverted the edit that added "Brexit caused this and World War 3 has begun. S*it's gettin real.". I don't understand why it appears that I added it. Elevatorrailfan (talk) 22:47, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

List of active separatist movements in North America map

Hey, not sure if you got my message on commons but could you possibly add California as well as any other jurisdictions that might be missing to the map on the List of active separatist movements in North America article. Thanks! Prcc27🌍 (talk) 21:38, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

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Howdy. Do we have to add the president-elect & vice president-elect to the infobox? Why not just wait until Trump/Pence succeed Obama/Biden on 20 January 2017. Avoid showing 4 of them simultaneously. GoodDay (talk) 04:44, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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