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Ahirs

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Ahirs, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 08:12, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To add: that article does need cleanup, but please do explain your changes in the WP:edit summary and properly cite reliable sources. Materialscientist (talk) 08:12, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Abhira tribe

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Abhira tribe, you may be blocked from editing. - SudoGhost (talk) 18:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Response

I respectfully disagree. I invite you to open a discussion on the talk page, so that people can reach a consensus as to the edits you have proposed. I am not the only one who has reverted your edits, and I have done so because it seems that you are removing valid, sourced information (usually having to do with any positive mention of the British people) and are replacing it with content you feel is more appropriate. In this instance (when multiple users have reverted your edits), it is best to use the aforementioned talk page to explain why you feel these edits should be made, and allow the users to make a consensus either towards or against the changes. - SudoGhost (talk) 04:53, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I ask that you please use the talk page to discuss this before reinserting the changes. Also, when using a person's talk page, new comments go at the bottom of the page, that way they know where to find them. Thank you. - SudoGhost (talk) 05:08, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As a note, it helps to sign your posts by placing four tildes at the end like this: ~~~~ so that it tells people who you are. This makes it easier to communicate back in forth, as you can see here ---> SudoGhost (talk) 05:38, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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April 2011

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, you may be blocked from editing. —SpacemanSpiff 15:15, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop removing cited content

Please will you stop removing cited content, as you have done on four articles inside the last 30 minutes. If you have an issue with the content then you need to discuss it on the relevant talk pages. You should also not refactor talk pages, as you have done in one instance by removing an entire conversation thread.

Furthermore, please could you use edit summaries. - Sitush (talk) 08:31, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011

This is your last warning; the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Yadav, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Saddhiyama (talk) 08:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Scythian into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to make a note in an edit summary at the source page as well. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you.

Copied to Jat people & other articles without attribution - breaches CC-BY-SA/GFDL licence preservation and in any event you should not rely on another Wikipedia article for information.

You also yet again removed valid, cited information in order to add this, which was clearly disruptive as you did not discuss beforehand. Sitush (talk) 09:46, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yadu

I apologise for having to revert your recent edit to Yadu. That edit had the consequence of removing what appeared to be material which was cited in a valid manner and replacing it with content sourced to answers.com, which is not a reliable source. - Sitush (talk) 09:48, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your deletions at Ahirs

Greetings, you continue to delete content with zero explation at Ahirs. Before deleting again, please go to Talk:Ahirs and explain your concerns. If you continue to not communicate with other editors, we will not be able to incorporate your changes, and this back-and-forth is becoming disrputive. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

you can reply here, I will see any replies, and it's easier to keep it on one page

you are deleting right information from article and supporting wrong.this is against the spirit of wikipedia - Negative, you are deleting properly-cited information while providing no explanation. It is you who are not communicating or collaborating. Note that I explicitly left in (and explained such in my Edit Summary) that info which you added which is properly cited. I do recommend though that rather than manually enter GoogleBooks footnotes, you auto-format them using http://reftag.appspot.com which will save you a lot of time. If you object to info currently included in Ahir, by all means post an explanation (including supporting cites) on Talk:Ahirs. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:11, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2011

This is your last warning; the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Yadu, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Sitush (talk) 01:14, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Yadu. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Please start using edit summaries. You rarely do so and it is causing all sorts of problems for those who are trying to maintain articles on a long term basis. Thanks. Sitush (talk) 01:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for repeatedly removing sourced information from articles without discussion. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 01:34, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have been warned numerous times about removing sourced information from articles and have been asked to provide edit summaries to explain your changes, but you do not appear to be taking any notice. Please use the time of this short block to have a look back over this page full of warnings, and listen to what they are saying - if you do not, I fear you may end up with a longer block -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 01:39, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Footnote formatting

Greetings, you appear to be making a popular footnoting mistake, in that you're adding one footnote with just a bare GoogleBooks link, and then inexplicably adding a second footnote which gives title/author/etc. Instead, please use RefTag ( http://reftag.appspot.com ) to format gBook links. You just paste the URL into the window, hit the button, and it will produce a perfect footnote that you can paste into Wikipedia. Note that it you're on "snippet view" on a given GoogleBook, you have to enter the page# manually, but otherwise it's all automated and can save you a lot of effort while producing very clean footnotes. Good luck, MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:25, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please note you can't remove multiple citations to published books, and then just add a sentence cited to "sishri.org" or whatever fansite as you did here[1]. If you want to contest material, you need to bring in better cites than the ones you want to replace, not forums/blogs/Facebook/fansites. MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:35, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deletions at Yadu

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Yadu. 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. You have been warned (and blocked) before for this. Please discuss substantial changes. Sitush (talk) 12:38, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pasting from other articles

I note you've pasted a huge chunk of Yadu into Yadav. Note that this is unnecessary and not constructive. If anyone is reading Yadav and wants more info on Yadu, all they have to do is click the blue-link Yadu and they'll have all the info they need. All that is needed in Yadav is just enough info to clarify who Yadu is and, more importantly, why the topic is germane to the Yadav. By copy-pasting chunks of other articles, you are adding substantial bulk, duplicating information, unduly slanting Yadav towards the Yadu issue (which is actually a pretty minor issue of legendary descent, already easily covered in a small paragraph), and also creating more text which is vulnerable to tampering over time. If most of the Yadu info is at Yadu, it's easier to keep an eye on it, while if it's copied into four different articles, those are four different places where the material has to be identically maintained. I'm therefore reverting these cut-pastes of Yadu information. MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is also a breach of Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing terms, unless you specifically acknowledge where the information has been copied from. - Sitush (talk) 14:16, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Kshatriya, 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. Sitush (talk) 14:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Yadu, you may be blocked from editing. Sitush (talk) 14:42, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yadav & 3RR

You have again altered content that appears to have valid sources at Yadav. You are now at 3RR on multiple articles, and this is going to bring you a block if you are not careful. In fixing your edits, I too am at 3RR on some articles, but I believe that it is permissible when edits are as disruptive as yours have been (and I have the support of another respected contributor with regard to that opinion of disruption). - Sitush (talk) 14:48, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for edit warring to remove sourced information from and add unsourced information to articles. If you believe that some sourced information in the article should be removed, then please discuss it on the Talk page and get a consensus for it rather than edit-warring to try to get it out. You have been asked enough times, and have already been blocked - if you continue after this block expires, you will be blocked for longer. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:16, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cite for Yadav as a "political caste"?

Greetings, could you provide any chunk of quote on Talk:Yadav supporting the sentence "In modern India, Yadavs form a powerful political caste across party lines.<ref>Dipankar Gupta. ''Caste in question: identity or hierarchy?'' Sage, 2004</ref>{{where}}"?

Also, please be more careful in your spelling and copyediting; you may want to paste your text into MS Word or similar so it will underline your spelling and punctuation mistakes, as you had a lot of missing spaces after commas, mispellings like "medern", etc. that others than have to clean up. It's easy to make mistakes while typing fast, so best to check before posting. Note also I fixed the formatting of your footnote; do you have the full text of this article online somewhere? MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:32, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for continuing to push a POV, removing sourced information and replacing with WP:SYNTH, your two prior blocks for the same issue haven't helped you understand site policies. Please use the time of your block to read through the policies linked in the welcome message on top.. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. —SpacemanSpiff 13:29, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have extended your block as you are continuing to exhibit the same behavior as an IP. If you continue to do so, your blocks will be of escalating nature. —SpacemanSpiff 05:22, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]