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Your edit to Sharon Cuneta

Please remember not to mark edits that add content to articles as minor. Please see here for more information. Cheers, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 14:24, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding Wikipedia's policy on copyright

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Regarding your recent edits to IA-32

Hello, Luigiacruz

I'm writing about your 23 May edit to IA-32 article. You have changed the article's style from one approved form to another. Not that I object much in this case, but I thought I'd let you know that Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Stability of articles prohibits such edits. So, please think twice before doing such edits again. Fleet Command (talk) 13:01, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: Oh, and by the way, please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Fleet Command (talk) 13:02, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

August 2011

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 Windows XP. 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. AussieLegend (talk) 09:32, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AussieLegend is right, but not just about that article. You really need to use Edit Summary a lot more often. Fleet Command (talk) 22:16, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, im advertising for myself

hi, i think main idea abt this algo could lead us to a linear time, evn for the worst case, by considerring 2 groups of 4 pivots, 2 from each group (2 groups of 2 pivots n produce the next 2 pivots 4 the group-double) . i think in this current configuration, BFPRT median of medians looks more like N^(log_5(3)) guard assured which is not linear (worst case not linear) Florin Matei,Romania 93.118.212.93 (talk) 04:51, 9 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.118.212.93 (talk)

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

Hi.

I saw your 15:46, 15 September 2013 edit on Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs and I am afraid this is not true at all. Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, all editions of Windows Server, Windows 2000 and all Windows 9x let user do that. Windows 3.1 is not an OS but it allows that too.

Best regards,
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Documentation is awaiting your perusal

Hi.

You've been here since 2006 and have over 1500 edits. I think it is high time you took a look at Help:Cheatsheet and Help:Referencing for beginners.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 18:07, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

August 2014

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Are old Autodesk logos really relevant to Autodesk?

For historical purposes. Luigi.a.cruz (talk) 17:35, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What was the RAMAC price and capacity?

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Office 2010

Hi.

I've reviewed your edits in Microsoft Office 2010 article. It seems your intentions were to improve accuracy but you ended up doing the opposite.

For example, you have added "x64 version of" to "A 64-bit version of Office 2010 is available, although not for x64 version of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003." But now, the sentence does not rule out that a 64-bit version might be available for IA-32 versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Longer is not always better.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 11:05, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK.
Luigi.a.cruz (talk) 15:34, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2015

Hello, I'm Smuckola. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Talk:Solid-state drive, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message here. Please stop adding trivia or original research to an encyclopedia. This is just useless junk and will be reverted. Please read these very very thoroughly, several times if needed, because they are a lot for anybody to take in: WP:TRIVIA WP:NOTFORUM WP:N WP:OR. Also, all of your edit descriptions are identical and meaningless, akin to "I just changed something" or "insert edit message here". Please don't ever make an edit that isn't essential, reliably sourced, and thoroughly described and justified in the description. Some of your contributions have been valuable. Thanks. — Smuckola (talk) 18:33, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Luigi.a.cruz: You have been advised for literally a decade to use proper edit messages. All you did was change from one meaningless, generic, static, edit message to another one. Do not make any more edits without describing the content or nature of your edit, and directly justifying why the edit was truly necessary to the encyclopedia, such as establishing WP:N notability. Your actions are confusing, and waste the energy of other editors. Please stop adding WP:TRIVIA WP:NOTMANUAL WP:NOTHOWTO WP:OR even if WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, as you did with this. Stop writing up your own ideas, and stop adding any information that isn't WP:N according to secondary WP:RS reliable sources, as you correctly did here. Your lack of a discussion here, and instead giving a stubbornly defiant statement on your user page (which is Wikipedia's property, not a user's own weblog or personal repository of stuff) shows that you think that we're just giving you suggestions. We are not. We are clearly giving you direct links to the policy and guidelines defining what an encyclopedia is and is WP:NOT. All editors absolutely must read and understand those. Editors can be blocked for doing what you've been warned against, and there's no reason for that to have to happen. You're clearly capable of good research and citations (although please use proper templates like Template:cite web). Thanks. — Smuckola (talk) 21:41, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit Summaries

You literally have dozens of edits with one of two summaries, both of which are about as helpful as saying "I edited something." Perhaps a bit more descriptive summaries would be for the better. Or, well, you might as well leave no summary at all, really. Reil (talk) 22:35, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As you have been warned countless times for a decade, you can be blocked for refusing to address grievances on your talk page, and for violating the requirement of edit messages. You clearly know better, as you complied at one point; you are clearly reading these warnings, as you sulked publicly on your User page. You will speak to people on your talk page, and you will write completely thorough and explicit edit messages that describe what you changed and the rationale for why it was encyclopedically necessary according to policies such as WP:N. This is a serious warning. — Smuckola (talk) 03:04, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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September 2019

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussion, as you did at Talk:Irrational number, you may be blocked from editing. It should not take over a decade of warnings for you to understand WP:NOTAFORUM. What you posted was not even correct. Jasper Deng (talk) 06:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable sources

Hello. I wanted to explain why I reverted an edit of yours. The problem is that you cited the IMDb. Please don't cite the IMDb or import its data into Wikipedia, especially in a biography of a living person. The IMDb is a useful external link, but it is user-generated, which means it can't be cited on Wikipedia. Reliable sources should be staffed by professional journalists or academics, have a history of fact-checking, and editorial oversight. Websites like the IMDb, while useful as a casual resource, fail this requirement. This is very important in biographical articles because we need high quality sources to make sure that our information is correct. Crowd-sourced information should never be added to these articles. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:12, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@NinjaRobotPirate: Can you please just block this guy as the definition of WP:NOTHERE? — Smuckola (talk) 11:21, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Smuckola, we're here to help each other, not to discriminate and not to be judgmental. Luigi.a.cruz (talk) 11:39, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Luigi.a.cruz, you should spend some time reading the various policies and guidelines that people have linked on your talk page. Everyone makes mistakes, and Wikipedia can be very confusing for people who are not well-versed in Wikipedia's technical and social antecedents. If you continue like this, you'll probably be blocked. I don't understand why you're treating the entirety of English Wikipedia as if it's a sandbox or why you're leaving little comments and notes in encyclopedia articles. If you meant to engage in clean up, please see Wikipedia:Cleanup for instructions and help. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:50, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@NinjaRobotPirate: You don't understand? I do. It's because WP:CIR WP:NOTHERE WP:TEND. We are ten years past the point of endless blockable offense. — Smuckola (talk) 21:34, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Efn vs Clarify

Hello, Luigi. This is almost the exact same message you received in April of last year (see § Ref vs Clarify above), as you seem to have not yet grasped the different purposes of these tags. When you add a <ref> tag it is to point to a source. Use the {{Efn}} tag to add an explanatory footnote; that it, you are telling the reader something beyond what is in a source citation. What you very want to use, it seems, is the {{Clarify}} tag, which lets you insert a question for other editors to (we hope) eventually notice and clarify.

I just replaced one such of your additions to Xiaomi from New Year's Day. Over at NTFS, one of your additions of an {{Efn}} from today was edited within an hour to clarify the text, but you should have used {{Clarify}} there. The edit you labelled "Added explanatory footnote..." actually was one, so well done there.

Also, when you do use {{Efn}} in the correct way, there should be a section like Notes which contains the {{notelist}} tag. This lets people see all the explanatory footnotes on the page in one section, usually above the References section.

Please pay more attention to the details of these things. Wikipedia has lots of complicated nooks and crannies, but since you use (and misuse) these things so often, it would worthwhile to learn the differences and their proper use. Happy editing— JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 00:32, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]