User talk:Taharka155

You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages now require direct reliable sources for additions. For details see the content guideline, the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide or the edit notice on any DOY page. Almost all new additions without a reliable source as a reference are now being reverted on-sight.

Please do not add new additions to these pages without direct sources as the burden to provide them is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages.

Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 19:09, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits a summary may be quite brief.

Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Rsk6400 (talk) 06:54, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Talk:African Americans. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Referring to your sentence "Ethnocide is the only term that can be used for the purposeful erasure of an ethnic group, which is precisely what you are doing by saying anyone Black in race is an African American." Rsk6400 (talk) 10:17, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rsk6400 You were not attacked. You attacked me by claiming that my statements were "beyond over the top" and discarding my edits without any consideration or discussion.

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from African Americans (ethnicity). When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Rsk6400 (talk) 14:54, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to African Americans (ethnicity), without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Rsk6400 (talk) 17:52, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove maintenance templates without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at African Americans (ethnicity), you may be blocked from editing. If you remove again, I'll take the case to the edit warring notice board. You don't have to break the 3RR to be considered edit warring, see WP:EW. Rsk6400 (talk) 16:05, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Rsk6400: The issues you have raised have been addressed, and you have avoided directly responded to what I have written in the Talks section and have instead resorted to reversing my edits. I am informing you now that I will be reporting actions.--Taharka155 (talk) 16:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at African Americans shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
I really suggest you self-revert. Otherwise I'll take the case to WP:AN/3RR. Rsk6400 (talk) 19:23, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article African Americans (ethnicity) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African Americans (ethnicity) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

– bradv^🍁 16:40, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Taharka155! Your additions to African Americans (ethnicity) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 01:19, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to African Americans (ethnicity) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. DanCherek (talk) 02:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@DanCherek:: My mistake. I re-added copyrighted content accidentally. I was editing the page when you first took the material down.