User talk:JLawFan

Academy Awards[edit]

Please stop changing the years associated with Academy Award events. The 8th Academy Awards, for example, were held in March 1936 but recognized films released during 1935. General Ization ^Talk 16:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

February 2018[edit]

Hello, I'm General Ization. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Academy Award for Best Picture have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. General Ization ^Talk 18:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Academy Award for Best Picture. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 18:33, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Academy Award for Best Picture. General Ization ^Talk 18:35, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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 ~~~~}}. Widr (talk) 19:18, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In answer to your email, when other editors contact you to express concerns and/or warn you concerning your edits, you need to stop what you are doing and respond to them. See my first message to you above, which fully addresses the confusion you expressed in your email to me. It is identical to the message I left on the talk page of the IP you were using to make these same changes prior to your doing so on this account. General Ization ^Talk 19:22, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... I think that it would make more sense to list the movies by the year they won the award that's all or make a note above that those are the movies' release date.

I understand your suggestion (sent to me by email), but this is only one of several dozen pages (each for a different family of awards) where this particular table format is used. The format was determined by discussion and consensus arrived at by many editors who regularly contribute to pages here concerning film and the Academy Awards. If I was to change the column headings here, it would only make this page's column headings different than every other page related to the Awards. (The other pages also follow the convention I described above, and from which your edits were causing this page to deviate.) General Ization ^Talk 19:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please note that the preferred method of talking with other editors here is for both editors to use one or the other of their user Talk pages (like this one), and/or the Talk page of the article being discussed (e.g., Talk:Academy Award for Best Picture). Some editors prefer not to receive email and may not reply to messages you send them by email (or have disabled the option that allows you to do so). Even while you are (currently, and temporarily) blocked from editing articles, you can edit your Talk page (this one). General Ization ^Talk 20:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]