User talk:198.208.251.23

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"Destroyed Fedex DC-10 is no longer at SWF"

I wouldn't be surprised, but how is it you know that? Do you know (and can you find a way to source it?) when it was finally removed? Where did it go? I'd love to be able to put that in the article. Daniel Case 19:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article General Motors, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. Skinwalker 19:22, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

January 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism and are immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Yamaguchi先生せんせい 04:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Internal combustion engine, without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you. —LOL (talk) 04:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Pat Forde. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Tiddly-Tom 18:11, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to User:Frank has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Knippschild (talk) 14:59, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 2011

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to old dogs. Your edits constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox.

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Jart. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Mikaey, Devil's advocate 18:39, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not include unsupported or inaccurate statements. Whenever you add possibly controversial statements about a living person to an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did to MS Paint Adventures, you must include proper sources. If you don't know how to cite a source, you may want to read Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners for guidelines. Thank you. Jasper Deng (talk) 22:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 21:18, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Mark Van Woert concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Mark Van Woert, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:37, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Mark Van Woert

Hello, 198.208.251.23. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Mark Van Woert".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 00:46, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello 198.208.251.23, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to 1973 Cleveland Browns season has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:39, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2016

Hello, I'm Bentogoa. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Skunk Works— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Bentogoa (talk) 12:12, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Talk:Table of handgun and rifle cartridges

Talk:Table of handgun and rifle cartridges, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Table of handgun and rifle cartridges and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Talk:Table of handgun and rifle cartridges during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Digitallymade (talk) 12:30, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

October 2017

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Herman Moore. Tornado chaser (talk) 18:41, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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