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December 2016

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to List of English Canadians, did not appear constructive and has been undone. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:36, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please have a read of WP:OVERLINKING for what should not be linked (emphasis in the original): "The names of major geographic features". Your edits are not helpful and will be reverted. Schwede 66 01:36, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Per the above, please do not repeat links in articles or link major geographic features. Your edits also bear a very strong resemblance to those performed by an indefinitely blocked sock puppeteer, who has, like you, ignored multiple previous requests like the one above. If you do not desist in this series of overlinking edits, you will be blocked from editing. Also, please note that infoboxes should not contain long detailed addresses. The details should be just sufficient to disambiguate the place from other places of the same name. It is not necessary or desirable to have a long string of additional trivia. DrKay (talk) 17:17, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is your only warning. If you continue to add long strings of detailed trivia to infoboxes and to link major geographic features despite being asked not to do so, you will be blocked from editing without further notice. DrKay (talk) 17:54, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DrKay: I thought I'd bring to your attention that your "last warning" has been ignored. Schwede 66 20:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for continuing to perform disputed edits despite requests to desist. I don't understand why you're ignoring messages, but there is still a possibility that you will be unblocked if you explain. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. DrKay (talk) 22:17, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Intro

Hi Jack, hope you're well, just a quick one—I've seen you adding the format "X-born Y" in the first sentence of some articles recently. Thanks for trying to help with precision, but MOS actually says at WP:OPENPARA that birthplace or prior nationalities shouldn't go in the first sentence unless relevant to the subject's notability. Clifford Dupont and John Wrathall, for example only became notable for inclusion in an encyclopedia as Rhodesian people. Hope this makes sense. A very Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year. All the best, — Cliftonian (talk) 03:27, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]