User talk:70.51.73.12

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Happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 10:29, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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In addition, please do not make changes to articles that involve exclusively alterations to white-space in the wikicode that have no effect on the rendered page. Each change you make to an article, should improve the article in some way, however slightly, and your edit summary should explain your intended improvement. Again, welcome to Wikipedia! Mathglot (talk) 10:36, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

January 2020

Hello, I'm Walter Görlitz. An edit that you recently made to British Columbia seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want to practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:55, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:14, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to A. Lawrence Lowell. It is considered vandalism, which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to being blocked from editing. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Hi, I noticed that you've been making numerous edits where you are only changing the whitespace in the articles' infoboxes and other templates, or removing double spaces in text, for example: [1], [2], [3], etc. Please stop doing this. There is no good reason for it, and it makes "diffs" with other versions of the article much more difficult to read. It also wastes other editors' time trying to figure out what changes you have made. While I can understand wanting to help "clean up" if that's what you're doing, in most cases the extra spacing in infoboxes is automatically added when people use the visual editor to edit, so it will be restored again next time someone does that. Again, this makes comparing different versions of the article more difficult. Also, double spaces in text are not rendered to the displayed article, so there is no reason to make edits solely to remove them, for the same reasons. Continuing to do so, though it's not vandalism, may be seen as disruptive. Thanks for your understanding. --IamNotU (talk) 00:19, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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