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Please don't troll pages on Wikipedia EvergreenFir (talk) 16:24, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
May 2018
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Thanks! Doug Weller talk 16:35, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Explicit edit summaries from now on please
[edit]As explained above, you should not be using edit summaries that misrepresent what you do. Continuing to do this on American Politics articles can lead to blocks or topic bans. Doug Weller talk 16:37, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Asher Raza (May 19)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Clement Plasencia (May 19)
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August 2018
[edit] Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 08:27, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to List of heads of state of Pakistan, you may be blocked from editing. ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 06:54, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you blank out or remove content from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to List of heads of state of Pakistan. ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 06:55, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
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[edit] Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan into List of heads of state of Pakistan. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,
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August 2018
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. Black Kite (talk) 23:50, 24 August 2018 (UTC)