User talk:Naep1
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[edit] March 2008
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to List of colors. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Dicklyon (talk) 06:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to 1933 Atlantic hurricane season, you will be blocked from editing. Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: 1933 Atlantic hurricane season was changed by Naep1 (u) (t) blanking the page on 2008-03-27T03:26:49+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 03:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to 1933 Atlantic hurricane season. —αἰτίας •discussion• 03:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
There have not been any constructive edits from this account, so you will not be unblocked now. If you would like to earn the community's trust, please read this "second chance" message, take a look at the policies linked therein, and follow the instructions:
Your request for unblocking has been declined due to your history of vandalism and/or disruption to this encyclopedia. However, we are willing to give you another chance provided that you can earn back the trust of the Wikipedia community. To be unblocked you need to demonstrate that you are willing and able to contribute positively to Wikipedia. You can do this by:
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If you need help while working with your proposed edits, you may add "{{helpme|your question here}}" to your talk page. Thank you. --B (talk) 04:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
I couldn't find the source of the article, but it is on the Abraham Lincoln Page, unless that is the source of the article. What is in bold is what I added.
[edit] Assassination
- Further information: Abraham Lincoln's burial and exhumation
Originally, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, had formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After attending an April 11 speech in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks, an incensed Booth changed his plans and determined to assassinate the president.[1] Learning that the President and First Lady, together with the Grants, would be attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre, he laid his plans, assigning his co-conspirators to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.
[edit] Please Unblock Me
- The problem with that edit is you are making your own interpretation (or interpolation?). We have no idea whether Booth knew the name of the play that they would be attending - Booth knew Lincoln was at the theater and Lincoln was attending that play, but it doesn't automatically follow that Booth knew the name of the play. This is a difficult concept, but an important one - content on Wikipedia needs to be well-sourced and verifiable. Unless you have confirmed a particular fact with the source material, it shouldn't be added. Please choose another edit and make sure that it is well-sourced and accurate. Also, when you make an unblock request, please reference this "second chance" article and don't copy/paste your old unblock request - if you do, then someone without even reading it is going to decline the request just from looking at your edits. --B (talk) 12:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- Key point: Sources must be verifiable. "The History Channel" is not sufficient information to verify a source. The title of the show and, if it's a series, episode, would allow other editors to verify the information (for example, "Good Eats, 'If It Ain't Broccoli Don't Fix It'"). —C.Fred (talk) 23:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)