User talk:The First Legionnaire

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January 2024

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your recent edit to Triangular trade, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you. Graham87 (talk) 14:14, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Also, have you previously had an account here? Your editing pattern seems ... rather odd. Graham87 (talk) 14:14, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Luxembourgish Americans and Canadians

Hello, thanks for your interest in these topics. The choice of terminology for people from Luxembourg has been the subject of quite a bit of discussion on Wikipedia before - if you believe that a long-standing page title should be changed, it is usually best to make your case on the talk page and gain a consensus among other users first though! A full canvassing of opinion through the WP:RM process is usually the best option. Thanks. —Brigade Piron (talk) 22:02, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Preview, consolidate, summarize

Hello and thanks for your contributions. Below are a few editing suggestions to make it easier for you and others to collaborate on the encyclopedia. Please preview, consolidate, and summarize your edits:

• Try to consolidate your edits, at least at the section level, to avoid cluttering the page's edit history; this makes it easier for your fellow editors to understand your intentions, and makes it easier for those monitoring activity on the article.
  • The show preview button (beside the "publish changes" button) is helpful for this; use it to view your changes incrementally before finally saving the page once you're satisfied with your edits.
• Please remember to explain each edit with an edit summary (box above the "publish changes" button).

Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric ^talk 17:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

Your recent editing history at South Asian Canadians shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
Take your content dispute to the article's talk page and stop edit warring. Meters (talk) 06:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for July 8

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Query

Hello, @The First Legionnaire. I see you have made a lot of edits, but very few of them appear to be constructive. You've never once used an edit summary, and I suggest you do. The vast majority of your edits "correct" things that do not need correcting; just because an article title begins with a capital letter, which is the case 99% of the time by default, doesn't mean the subject does in an actual sentence; this is why, for example, changing the "s" in "siege" to a capital "S" is not correct as it is not a proper noun. Additionally, wikilinks work whether or not the first letter in the link is capitalized, and it is sometimes correct not do so, even if the article title is capitalized. Lastly, please do not add an oxford comma just because you think it is "correct"; only add it in places where it is either obvious it is needed to avoid confusion or to adhere to cases where it is already used throughout an article, which was not the case in the 1920s article. If you could explain the purpose of your edits, as again many do not appear to be very constructive and go against the Manual of Style, that would be great. Thanks. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 06:01, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Reformation, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 04:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 04:59, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

@The First Legionnaire: Thanks for your edits but communication is required. Please respond to the issues raised on this talk page. You could do that by commenting at the noticeboard discussion. Alternatively, you would need to avoid repeating edits similar to those that have been challenged. Editors who are unable to communicate may need to be blocked to prevent further edits to articles until disagreements are sorted out. Johnuniq (talk) 05:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)