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October 2022[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

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Note: if you need assistance, (eg: with the series of edits you made to this page today), then instead of attempting to edit an article and figure it out on the go, instead, ask for assistance on the talk page. Thank you - wolf 00:02, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at USS Nashville (LPD-13), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Equine-man (talk) 16:12, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

why 86.3.173.70 (talk) 23:56, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at USS Ponce (LPD-15), you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 16:12, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Personal attack removed) 86.3.173.70 (talk) 23:56, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Talk:Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. - wolf 03:46, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Added note[edit]

Once you were reverted by BilCat, and notified by same about the National Varieties of English on Wikipedia (just below), continuing to revert a second, then third time, with snippy little comments such as: "British English is correct English" will accomplish nothing. It is just further disruption that you will very likely be called to account for by way of sanctions if this behaviour continues. - wolf 03:58, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at USS Nashville (LPD-13), you may be blocked from editing. - wolf 21:24, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Personal attack removed) 86.3.173.70 (talk) 23:55, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You need to give WP:NPA a read. - wolf 05:14, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

National varieties of English[edit]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, 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 original 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. BilCat (talk) 00:51, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 72 hours[edit]

Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked temporarily from editing for persistently making disruptive edits.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:28, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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why was i banned 86.3.173.70 (talk) 23:54, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You should read WP:GAB, and perhaps take a look at all the warnings and notices you've received up above, and take a look at all the edits of yours that were reverted. It should help somewhat. - wolf 02:45, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 6 months[edit]

Effective 27 October 2022 - wolf 04:30, 12 October 2023 (UTC) (Non-administrator comment)[reply]

July 2023[edit]

Hello, I'm Prairie Astronomer. I noticed that you recently removed content from USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. 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. Prairie Astronomer ^{Contributions} 01:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

National varieties of English (2)[edit]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Los Angeles-class submarine, 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. BilCat (talk) 23:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Los Angeles-class submarine, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. - wolf 05:11, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did with this edit to Los Angeles-class submarine. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 21:57, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, you may be blocked from editing. - wolf 04:14, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility. - wolf 04:16, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

⚠️ Despite numerous warnings, you still continue to make unsourced changes to the same article. Unless you properly cite your changes, they will continue to be undone. You should also take the block warnings seriously. (pinging Materialscientist, who posted a warning above.) - wolf 19:05, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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