User talk:202.170.60.251

July 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Bacillus, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Brianga (talk) 17:40, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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October 2011

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Najib Razak, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:05, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

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July 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from 2012–13 Arsenal F.C. season. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Michael Anon (talk) 06:49, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

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Footballers' height

Hello. Where a footballer's height is already referenced by a live link to a reliable source, and especially where there is a hidden note referring to that source, as at Johan Djourou, or referring to a talk-page discussion about the player's height, as at Rio Ferdinand, please don't waste your time changing the source to one you personally prefer, or changing the height to match the source of your choice. Sky Sports is certainly not more reliable or likely to be more accurate than UEFA or the Premier League. If you believe an existing cited source to be wrong, please consider starting a discussion on the matter at the article's talk page. Thank you for your understanding. Struway2 (talk) 08:13, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

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Unused parameters in footballer infoboxes

Hello. Please would you not remove common parameters from infoboxes, such as |caption= or |fullname=, just because they haven't yet been filled in. Removing them doesn't make the page any more efficient, and it's much easier for future editors to add the information if the parameter's already there waiting to be completed. Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 08:51, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

February 2013

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Gilberto Silva, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Please stop removing references from articles, as you did here. References are there to verify information, and removing them is vandalism. Struway2 (talk) 08:01, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at Tony Adams, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason.

Please stop changing units of height from imperial to metric without explanation. This goes against WP:MOSNUM, is disruptive, and is inappropriate for subjects from countries that use the imperial system for measuring people's height. Struway2 (talk) 08:09, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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This is your last warning. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Phil Jones (footballer), you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Thєíríshwαrdєn - írísh αnd prσud 21:10, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.

This really is a final warning.

If you keep on

• removing references, as with this edit to Kakha Kaladze;
• removing content, as with this edit to Robert Pirès;

or making any other disruptive changes such as changing from imperial to metric units contrary to MoS, or altering the |title= parameter in {{cite web}}s for no apparent reason, you will be blocked from editing.

Thank you for your understanding.

Struway2 (talk) 09:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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Reply

Hello, and thanks for replying. If you want to clean up footballer infoboxes, then please carry on, but please follow the conventions, and don't remove stuff that belongs there, or change stuff that shouldn't be changed. Where it's a choice between prettiness and accuracy, we have to go for accuracy.

The link at Kakha Kaladze isn't dead; some systems perceive a problem with AC Milan's website, but the page is still there. If you do find a dead link, please either replace it with an archive version or alternative source, or else leave it in place and tag it as dead: see WP:DEADLINK.

The |title= parameter at citeweb is intended to contain the actual title of the page (both for accuracy, and to stand a greater chance of finding it again if the url changes: again, see WP:DEADLINK) rather than a description of its content.

And there's a long-standing ruling that went all the way up to the Arbitration Committee that things like spelling, date formats and metric/imperial measuring units shouldn't be changed "without a substantial reason unrelated to mere choice of style" (quoted from MOS:NUM). British and particularly US subjects do still use imperial as the primary unit for people's height.

For what it's worth, the {{height}} template was designed as a simple height conversion tool for use in infoboxes, so there's no need to change that to the less intuitive {{convert}}, but that's your choice. hope this helps, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I've assumed just about enough good faith. Please STOP removing live references from articles, as you did at Giovanni Trapattoni and Luigi Di Biagio, just because (presumably?) they're "messy": I borrow the word from your post at my talk page headed Harmless Edits. The whole basis of Wikipedia content is that it should be verifiable with reference to reliable sources, as this policy document makes clear. Removing references, particularly from biographies of living people, so that article content is no longer verifiable, apparently because their presence makes the layout "messy", is hardly "harmless" editing. Struway2 (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

Hello, I'm SQGibbon. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Denílson Pereira Neves because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can 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! SQGibbon (talk) 01:05, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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