User talk:Jonathanlobl

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Please read this carefully[edit]

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Doug Weller talk 11:12, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please also read this[edit]

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 3#General Prohibition which says:

"All IP editors, accounts with fewer than 500 edits, and accounts with less than 30 days tenure are prohibited from editing any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This prohibition is preferably enforced by the use of extended confirmed protection, but where that is not feasible, it may also be enforced by reverts, page protections, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters. The sole exceptions to this prohibition are:

Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Talk pages where disruption occurs may be managed by any of the above methods. This exception does not apply to other internal project discussions such as AfDs, WikiProjects, noticeboard discussions, etc."

In other words, you should not be changing Israel to Palestine or vice versa on any page, even if it is not extended-confirmed protected. You may use the talk page of an article to make such a suggestion. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:25, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Doug, thank you for the information. I'm a beginner here on wikipedia and I had no previous knowledge on rules and guidelines. You are completely right on everything you said about editing. I really want to thank you for clarifying that info, it's very useful. I didn't edit as I should, specially on such a sensitive topic. Just so you know, the reason for the edit wasn't at all political or controversial, but instead because I thought there was an obvious mistake. Nonetheless, you are 100% right. I shouldn't have edited a Wikipedia article like that. I just didn't have the information you gave me, regarding editing on Wikipedia. Once again, thank you. I assure you it won't happen again. :) @Doug Weller: Jonathanlobl (talk) 04:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it, I had problems as a new user - different ones, but there's a lot to learn. It's worthwhile though. Doug Weller talk 18:14, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]