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Note about Armenia–Azerbaijan articles

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Hi, ManU9827. Thank you for your edits. However, please be aware of the community consensus regarding Armenia and Azerbaijan:

Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide—are placed under an extended confirmed restriction.

An extended confirmed restriction applies to all edits and pages related to the topic area, broadly construed. Most constructive talkpage participation is excepted, however participation in requested moves is not. For this reason, I have struck your comment at Talk:2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes § Requested move 19 September 2023 2. You may still participate on that page outside of the requested move.

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September 2023

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Warning icon Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Emu War, you may be blocked from editing. Nick-D (talk) 23:16, 30 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

How were my edits vandalism? They seem constructive to me, the result of the emu war was a status quo ante bellum ManU9827 (talk) 06:52, 1 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

March 2024

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Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It commenced yesterday on Monday June 16 and will run until Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help make the content produced as diverse and broad as possible! Feel free to invite others who you think might want to contribute.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:19, 17 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Splitting discussion for Ba'athist Syria

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An article that been involved with (Ba'athist Syria) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (Assad regime). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 01:18, 19 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Chinese Civil War order of battle has been accepted

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Chinese Civil War order of battle, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been accepted!

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April 2026

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Information icon Hello, I'm Fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, No Lives Matter, but you didn't provide a reliable source. On Wikipedia, it's important that article content be verifiable. If you'd like to resubmit your change with a citation, your edit is archived in the page history. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Diff: Special:Diff/1350360460. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 13:50, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Looksmax.org

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A tag has been placed on Looksmax.org requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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