User talk:Basketdove

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Welcome!

Hello, Basketdove, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 19:29, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Edit Summary

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Dep. Garcia (Talk to Me) 20:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop

Please stop violating the manual of style. A consensus was developed how to deal with these and you are not conforming to it. JoshuaZ 20:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Please stop, if you think further discussion is warranted discuss it on the MOS page but for now this is the consensus and you are ignoring it in a disruptive fashion. If you continue you may be blocked. JoshuaZ 20:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
You appear to be a new user so it may not be as obvious to you when Wikipedia has reached a consensus. If you think no consensus has been reached it is then best to discuss on the talk page more rather than make unilateral changes. JoshuaZ 20:43, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Basketdove, when users come to your talk page to give advice, it is often meant to be helpfull and contstructive. I think this is one of those times. The manual of style is here so that a unified style can exist across an encyclopedia written by tens of thousands of people. Thanks. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 20:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Please stop to add honorific prefixes in the opening of articles, please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Honorific prefixes. Doing that further, will be considered as vandalism, and may result in a block, thanks. ~~ Phoe talk 21:15, 13 November 2006 (UTC) ~~


[edit] Your disruption

In less than two hours you managed to cause quite a bit of disruption to Wikipedia, creating work for other editors. If you continue with disruption you may be blocked from editing. The choice is yours. Moriori 20:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Privy councillors

Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(biographies)#Honorific_prefixes_No.2. - Kittybrewster 23:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)