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{{Adwnote}} Another editor has listed an article that you have been involved in editing, [[{{{1}}}]], at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/{{{1}}}]]. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --~~~~
{{badcat}} Before adding controversial categories, such as [[:Category:{{{cat}}}|{{{cat}}}]], to articles, such as [[{{{article}}}]], please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category. The addition of a category to an article is considered a claim that the subject of the article is what the name of the category would suggest, and the article needs to contain information that backs your claim up, otherwise it will most likely be removed by another user.
{{badfairuse}} ==Fair use image problems==

{{subst:#ifeq:{{{header}}}|1|==[[:Fair use problem with {{{1}}}]]==}} I notice you have uploaded the image [[:{{{1}}}]] with the {{[[Template:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]]}} fair use image tag. However, this tag seems unrelated to the content of the image, and as a result it may qualify for speedy deletion. [[:{{{1}}}]] has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you can find a valid tag that expresses why [[:{{{1}}}]] can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the {{[[Template:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]]}} tag that you have placed on it with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the {{non-free fair use in|article name that the image is used in}} tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the image. If the image has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it. However, you must not remove the speedy deletion notice. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.

{{Badfairuse}} ==Fair use image problems==

{{subst:#ifeq:{{{header}}}|1|==[[:Fair use problem with {{{1}}}]]==}} I notice you have uploaded the image [[:{{{1}}}]] with the {{[[Template:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]]}} fair use image tag. However, this tag seems unrelated to the content of the image, and as a result it may qualify for speedy deletion. [[:{{{1}}}]] has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you can find a valid tag that expresses why [[:{{{1}}}]] can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the {{[[Template:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]]}} tag that you have placed on it with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the {{non-free fair use in|article name that the image is used in}} tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the image. If the image has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it. However, you must not remove the speedy deletion notice. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.

{{Badnom}} == Your nomination of an image at FPC ==

Hello, WikiProject user warnings, and thank you for nominating an image on featured picture candidates. However, I notice that your nomination does not follow all the instructions of the nomination procedure. Depending on how much discussion has already been left on the page by voters, you may want to remove your nomination, revise it so that it follows the procedure, and then re-submit it. If you do not know how to remove your nomination, or you need help with the instructions, ask me (on my talk page), and I can help you. I will be looking forward to seeing your future contributions to this project! Thanks.

{{Blatantvandal}}
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism and are immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you.
{{C&pmove}} Hello, WikiProject user warnings. It appears that you copied and pasted [[{{{1}}}]] to [[{{{2}}}]]. Please do not move articles by copying and pasting them because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself using the move link at the top of the page, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you, ~~~~


{{canvass}}
Your contributions history shows that you have been aggressively cross-posting in order to influence {{{1}}}. Although the Arbitration Committee has ruled that "[t]he occasional light use of cross-posting to talk pages is part of Wikipedia's common practice"1, such cross-posting should adhere to specific guidelines. In the past, aggressively worded cross-posting has contributed towards an Arbitration Committee ruling of disruptive behavior that resulted in blocking2. It is best not to game the system, and instead respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building, by ceasing to further crosspost, and instead allowing the process to reflect the opinions of editors that were already actively involved in the matter at hand. Thank you.
{{Commentdel}} Please do not remove other people's comments unless the issue has been resolved or their comment is no longer relevant to the current state of the article. With the exception of these scenarios, the removal of other people's comments is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
{{ConflictOfInterest}} If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you.

{{cutpastemove}} Please use the move function, instead of copy-and-paste, when renaming a page. This avoids splitting the page history in several places.
{{Dabhelp}} In one or more of your recent edits, you have created a link to [[{{{1}}}]] when the link appears to have been intended to refer to [[{{{2}}}]].

This is a form of ambiguous link: that is, a link to an article which is in itself a disambiguation page. In other words, the link which you have created does not take the reader directly to the article that you want them to see, but instead to a list of two of more articles with similar names (known as a disambiguation page).

This is an easy mistake to make, and this message is intended to show you how easy it is to avoid it.

The first thing to check is that the phrase to which you are linking (in this case {{{1}}}) is actually the name of the article which you want your reader to see. (You can check this by opening a new tab or window in your browser, and typing the phrase in the "Find" box).

Once you have found the article you want, follow the link to open it in your browser, and simply copy the article title (in Windows, by selecting the text and typing Control-C).

Then you need to create a what is known as a piped link, which is one where the text which the reader sees is not the same as as the name of the artyicle.

In this case, your link would look like this, which is italicised here for clarity: [[{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}]]. That way, the link will appear as [[{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}]] ... but it will bring the reader to the article you want them to see.

I hope this helps. Please could you try to use this form of link in future? Thanks!


{{Disrupt}} Template:Disrupt
{{Double redirect}} When moving pages, please remember to fix any double redirects. These can create slow, unpleasant experiences for the reader, waste server resources, and make the navigational structure of the site confusing. Thank you.
{{Editsummary}}
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.
{{Edit summary personal}} Please avoid using abusive edit summaries as per Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks and happy editing.
{{Google bug}}
Your edit has been hit with a bug!
Hello, thanks for your recent contributions to [[{{{1}}}]]. Unfortunately, some text has been lost from the article through your edit. This is not your fault, but a known bug of your browser setup. With certain versions of Microsoft Windows with Firefox together with the Google Toolbar, the end of a very long article may be cut off before you save. Please be careful when you edit long articles and, in the short term, edit just a section at a time. It also seems that the bug is fixed if you use the newest versions, so please upgrade to the latest versions of Firefox and Google Toolbar. (If you would like more details, see this bugzilla page.) For now, please wait a moment with further edits to this article until I have restored the lost content. Thank you, and happy editing!  ~~~~
{{IPbotblock}}
You have been temporarily blocked from editing for anonymously running a bot. When the block expires, please log in (or create an account), read the policy on bots, and request approval before running the bot again.
{{minor}} Please remember to mark your edits as minor if (and only if) they genuinely are minor edits (see Help:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you.
{{Movepages}} This is your only warning.
The next time you move a page maliciously, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
{{MultipleIPs}}
You have repeatedly been warned to stop your vandalism of articles on Wikipedia when you came here using other IPs. Please stop. You are welcome to contribute real edits to Wikipedia but all vandalism done by you will be reverted and you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia if you continue. You're welcome to continue editing Wikipedia, so long as these edits are constructive. Please see Wikipedia's Blocking policy and what constitutes vandalism; such actions are not tolerated on Wikipedia, and are not taken lightly.

We hope that you will become a legitimate editor and create an account. Again, you are welcome here at Wikipedia, but remember not to vandalize or you will soon be blocked from editing.

If you feel you have received this message in error, it may be because you are using a shared IP address. Nevertheless, repeated vandalism from this address may cause you to be included in any future sanctions such as temporary blocks or bans. To avoid confusion in the future, we invite you to create a user account of your own.

{{Needsource}} Your recent contribution(s) to Wikipedia are very much appreciated. However, you did not provide references or sources for your information. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a drive to improve the quality of Wikipedia by encouraging editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. If sources are left unreferenced, it may count as original research, which is not allowed. Can you provide in the article specific references to any books, articles, websites or other reliable sources that will allow people to verify the content in the article? You can use a citation method listed at How to cite sources. Thanks!
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{{newvoterip}} Hi, I noticed that you placed a vote on [[:{{{1}}}]]. Thank you for your input; however, your status as an unregistered user means that your vote will probably not be counted. Please understand that this is a common practice on Wikipedia, and that it is necessary to prevent misuse of our voting systems – feel free to make further contributions to our articles. If you already have a user account, please log in before voting; if not, consider creating one, this has many benefits including the ability to vote in straw polls and discussions.
{{NoIPbots}} Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. However, it seems that you are running a bot under your IP address. Please stop immediately, create an account for the bot, and request approval before letting it run again. Anonymously-running and unapproved bots are blocked.
{{Noprotection}} == Page protection ==

Just to let you know, adding {{sprotected}} or {{protected}} to a page is only a means for an admin to notify users that a page is protected. This does not actually confer protection to the article. If you need help protecting a page, please contact an admin or request it. Thanks!

{{Nor}} Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing!
{{Not censored}} Thank you for your attempts to improve Wikipedia. However, I would like to remind you that Wikipedia is not censored for minors, not even for profanity or pornography. Everyone is encouraged to remove offensive material and obscenities that are blatantly vandalism, but please do not remove/censor profanities or remove/disclaim sexually explicit material or links that are relevant to the article. In the meantime, please be bold and continue contributing to Wikipedia. Thank you!
{{Notchat-n}} Your efforts in improving Wikipedia are appreciated. However, talk pages are only for discussion about the main article, not for general chat. Please do not use talk pages for general discussion, as you did on the [[:{{{1}}}]] page. Thank you.


{{Notenglish0}} Hello. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia in multiple languages, this being the English version. Please do not add content in other languages here unless it directly relates to the article; that is, the information cannot be explained in English alone. You can use interlanguage links to find the same article in a language you are more familiar with, or find the Wikipedia in that language on the master list. Thank you.
{{Nothere}}
This user may have left Wikipedia. WikiProject user warnings/Single has not edited Wikipedia using this account for a considerable amount of time. As a result, any requests made here may not receive a response. If you are seeking the assistance of this user on this page, you may need to approach someone else.
{{notyours}} I noticed that you edited someone else's comment for clarity, spelling or grammar. As a rule, please refrain from editing others' comments without their permission. Though it may appear helpful to correct typing errors, grammar, etc., please do not go out of your way to bring talk pages to publishing standards, since it is not terribly productive and will tend to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you.
{{Off-sandbox}} Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. While you are free to make test edits in the sandbox, please do not post copyrighted, offensive, slanderous, or libelous content in it. This kind of content is not necessary for testing.
{{pinfo4}} Wikipedia operates on the principle that every contributor has a right if they wish to remain completely anonymous. Wikipedia policy on that issue is strictly enforced. Posting private information about a user with the intent to annoy, threaten or harass, specifically their (alleged) name and/or personal details, is strictly prohibited as harassment, and users who do that are often immediately blocked from editing Wikipedia. Such posting can cause offense or embarrassment to the victim of the posting, not least because it means that their name, and any personal criticism or allegations made against them can then appear on web searches.

If you have posted such information, please remove it immediately. Please then follow the link to this page and follow the instructions there, including emailing this address. It will then be removed from the archives of Wikipedia.

If you do not ensure that the personal information you posted is removed from this site you will be blocked from editing this site. Remember: Wikipedia's privacy policy is there to protect the privacy of every user, including you.

{{Please login}} You have recently made changes to the user page of [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]. If this is your own user page, please log in before you make any edits to it. Edits by anonymous IP accounts to pages of registered users are often treated as vandalism. Please help us avoid this mistake by logging in. Thank you.
{{preview}} Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you.
{{Recreated}}
You have recently recreated or reposted material which previously was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not recreate this page without prior approval from an administrator or you may be blocked from editing. We ask that you respect what Wikipedia is not. If you disagree with the page's deletion, you may seek an independent deletion review.
{{Redlink}} Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In one of your recent edits, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you.
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{{Revert}}
Your edits have been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
{{Rollback}}
{{RPA}} (Personal attack removed)
{{Sandbox-head}} == Sandbox header ==

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. You may make test edits in the sandbox, but for the convenience of others, please leave the sandbox heading alone.

{{Sandbox-head}} == Sandbox header ==

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. You may make test edits in the sandbox, but for the convenience of others, please leave the sandbox heading alone.

{{seelink}} Hello. You recently created a page of the form 'See [[link]]'; whilst this is useful, a redirect page is even more useful. You can create a redirect page by typing
#REDIRECT [[link target]]

as the only thing in the edit box. Redirects are more useful than See [[link]] pages because they automatically load up the target page when the original page is loaded, saving time; they are also easier to automatically monitor. Thank you!

{{Seriously}} This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing.
{{Sign}} As a courtesy to other editors, it is a Wikipedia guideline to sign your posts on talk pages, user talk pages, and WikiProject pages. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and the date will then be automatically added along with a timestamp when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). For further info, read Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you.
{{sockblockdodge}}
ind|indefinitely|temporarily}} blocked from editing Wikipedia for using sockpuppets to get around a final warning. {{subst:#ifeq: |ind Your block will expire in {{{x}}}. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Any further abuse of Wikipedia or alternate accounts will lead to further, potentially longer, blocks.}} ~~~~
{{Sofixit}} Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).
{{SpellCheck}} Welcome to Wikipedia. Your recent contributions to Wikipedia are very much appreciated. However, please take a moment to review your contributions for spelling, grammatical, capitalization, and punctuation errors before you save. This will help lessen the amount of copyediting others must do on the article, and will help maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance of Wikipedia. You might want to consider using the Firefox web browser, which has spell-check built-in, installing the ieSpell extension for Internet Explorer, or setting up spell-check for Opera.

This message is not meant to discourage you from editing Wikipedia but rather to encourage the best possible writing from our authors. Please take a look at the Manual of Style and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

{{subst}}

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When using certain templates on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:uw-test1}} instead of {{uw-test1}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. Thank you.

{{Summary}}
Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.

{{Talkinarticle}} == Commentary in article ==
Use the discussion tab to find an article's talk page.
Use the discussion tab to find an article's talk page.
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article.

Also, be sure to sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~) – this will automatically produce a signature so other contributors can identify multiple posts from you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page! And again, thanks for your help!

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{{tilde}}

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button Image:Signature_icon.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you!

{{Tilde}}

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button Image:Signature_icon.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you!

{{User reply}}
{{Userfied}} The article you created at [[{{{1}}}]] is not suitable for a Wikipedia article, which must have a notable subject and be verifiable, but it may be a good start for your own userpage. I have moved it to User:WikiProject user warnings/Single, which is where you are encouraged to write about yourself. You are free to move it back into the (Main) namespace but bear in mind that if you do so, it is likely to be nominated for deletion.

The purpose of a user page is to enable active editors of Wikipedia to introduce themselves to other editors. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so you should not consider your user page to be a personal homepage. Content unrelated to Wikipedia or its editing may be removed.

Please see the user page guidelines, especially this section for more information.

{{Username-Warn}} ==Your Username (WikiProject user warnings)==

Hello WikiProject user warnings, unfortunately the username you have picked is inappropriate. Please consider changing it. You can do this by following the instructions at the Changing username page or by just creating a new account. Note that changing your username will allow you to keep your current edits credited to you. If you do not change your username, a Wikipedia administrator may block this account. If you feel this message is a mistake and your username does not violate the rule, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.

{{Userpage warning}}
Please refrain from vandalising the user pages of other users, or making changes which the user indicates are unhelpful. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.