Welcome!

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:

Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia:

The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! tgeorgescu (talk) 12:32, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Archived

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February 2026

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You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (FCSB and Talk:FCSB) for a period of 72 hours for bludgeoning. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  asilvering (talk) 13:35, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Some advice

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I see that your start to contributing to Wikipedia has, unfortunately, been troublesome, and I thought I might be able to offer you some advice, which may help you to avoid further trouble. Obviously, as with any advice, it's up to you whether to take it or not, but I suggest that you at least consider it carefully.

  • It seems to me that the situation is as follows. I have not read every word of the enormous amount of discussion on this, nor do I intend to; I don't need to, because what I wish to convey is information about how to deal with disagreements about editing Wikipedia, not about the rights and wrongs of the case under discussion. If, therefore, I get some details of the case wrong, please forgive me, but I don't believe it will substantially change the validity of my advice.
  • Wikipedia is a collaborative project. In a collaborative project there are bound to be times when people disagree. Sometimes it is a matter of someone being mistaken, sometimes there are just personal opinions, with no objective right and wrong. Either way, the disagreement can be discussed, with a view to trying to reach agreement. Sometimes the people involved do reach agreement, or at least a version which they are all prepared to settle for. Unfortunately, however, sometimes the outcome is one which one or more participants is unhappy with. I would not like to guess how many times I have had to accept things on Wikipedia which I have thought were wrong. It is disappointing to have to do that, but by being willing to do so sometimes, I have been able to continue editing, and in a large proportion of the time I have succeeded in achieving what I have set out to do. While I have done that I have seen probably hundreds of new editors who have been unwilling to compromise or to reluctantly accept a result that they don't like. Many of them have never achieved anything that they wished to, while, as I said, I have achieved a great deal. Many of them have survived as Wikipedia editors fir a matter of days, weeks or months, while I have survived for almost 20 years, in which time I have made over 200,000 edits. Persistently insisting that one's personal opinion is the truth, and endlessly plugging away at trying to get it accepted is actually not a good way to get one's opinion accepted; in fact on the contrary.
  • Another of the differences between, on the one hand, people who are likely to survive as editors and achieve at least some of what they wish to and, in the other hand, people who are unlikely to do so, is civility to other editors. Always treat other editors civilly, even if you think they don't deserve civility. For example, accusing people of lying is very rarely a good idea. You have done so where I can see no reason to doubt that the person in question was being sincere, even if mistaken; however, even if you believe a person really is lying, the main effect of saying so in so many words is likely to be to turn other people against you.

As I said above, I offer this advice in the hope that it may help you. I strongly urge you to consider it seriously; if you continue as you have been doing, it may well be a question of when, rather than whether, you are totally blocked from editing, not just blocked from two pages. JBW (talk) 19:11, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Introduction to contentious topics

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You have recently edited a page related to the Balkans or Eastern Europe, a topic designated as contentious. This is a brief introduction to contentious topics and does not imply that there are any issues with your editing.

A special set of rules applies to certain topic areas, which are referred to as contentious topics. These are specially designated topics that tend to attract more persistent disruptive editing than the rest of the project and have been designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee. When editing a contentious topic, Wikipedia's norms and policies are more strictly enforced, and Wikipedia administrators have an expanded level of powers and discretion in order to reduce disruption to the project.

Within contentious topics, editors should edit carefully and constructively, refrain from disrupting the encyclopedia, and:

Editors are advised to err on the side of caution if unsure whether making a particular edit is consistent with these expectations. If you have any questions about contentious topics procedures, you may ask them at the arbitration clerks' noticeboard or you may learn more about this contentious topic. You may also choose to note which contentious topics you know about by using the {{Ctopics/aware}} template. — Newslinger talk 13:30, 16 March 2026 (UTC)Reply