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April 2025

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Information icon Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Your edits are under discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography#MOS:SIR. Please do not continue these edits while they are under discussion. See Wikipedia:Disruptive editing#Examples of disruptive editing #5. DrKay (talk) 13:52, 7 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Information icon Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. You have continued to add Dom and Dona to Portuguese monarchs despite being warned against doing so above. It is disruptive to continue a series of edits after being asked to stop. DrKay (talk) 18:45, 7 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please stop your disruptive editing.

If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Portugal, you may be blocked from editing. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 18:23, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Information icon Hello, Oos88, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Consuela9890 (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. DrKay (talk) 19:02, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

I must say I myself thought about this, but I actually just started to edit after @Consuela9890 opened a new topic of discussion about File:Flag of Portugal.svg regarding the color of the flag, which I never quite understood why they are like that, but I added a few files back on commons before, since then I try to be only a reader but when I see something I know, I try to change it, but I keep it at the bare minimum. Btw, I'm portuguese who likes to talk about our history, like so many of us so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a couple of people who eddit portuguese pages on a certain pattern purely by coincidence, so it's understandable your concern, but I don't know anyone who is on wikipedia/or have multiple accounts Oos88 (talk) 19:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply
I am going around now warning editors who continue to editwar on Portugal may be blocked. If it is found you are coordinating with another contributor, that's another blockable offense. BusterD (talk) 19:22, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Blocked for sockpuppetry

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Izno (talk) 00:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)Reply