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O3000 (talk) 00:28, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Your edit constituted original research and/or synthesis. Please review the relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines; I'll be happy to explain in more detail if you wish. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:16, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Caroline Randall Williams, you may be blocked from editing. JavaHurricane 03:16, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Herman Cain. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I'm Felida97. An edit you recently made to Chattahoochee River seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 18:32, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You made a mistake.

The original version of the first sentence I edited was, "The Chattahoochee River ends in the city of Chattahoochee, FL. From there, the same river is then named Apalachicola River, which ends (160 miles away) in the city of Apalachicola, FL (meaning both rivers end in the city named after them)." The latter, parenthesized part is purely repetitive of the earlier part; it is redundant, and condescending to the reader. I edited out the parenthesized part. I fail to understand your apparent view that the deleted part is somehow important or essential, or that it contains a scintilla of relevant content or helpful context.

Regarding my other edit, it removed redundancy, increasing clarity and brevity. The essential part of the original sentence was, "Although the same river, this portion was given a different name by separated settlers in different regions. . . ." Obviously, "settlers in different regions" and "separated settlers" are one and the same, so one of these references should be edited out. The phrase "separated settlers" is somewhat odd and ambiguous, while describing them as "settlers in different regions" is plain and clear, but both are used to refer to populations of settlers who inhabited different regions. Hence the latter edit resulted in ""Although the same river, this portion was given a different name by settlers in different regions. . . ."

As your action of reverting the edits is based on your conclusion that they were "a test," I repeat, you made a mistake. BKWhopper (talk) 20:37, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You made a mistake.

The original version of the first sentence I edited was, "The Chattahoochee River ends in the city of Chattahoochee, FL. From there, the same river is then named Apalachicola River, which ends (160 miles away) in the city of Apalachicola, FL (meaning both rivers end in the city named after them)." The latter, parenthesized part is purely repetitive of the earlier part; it is redundant, and condescending to the reader. I edited out the parenthesized part. I fail to understand your apparent view that the deleted part is somehow important or essential, or that it contains a scintilla of relevant content or helpful context.

Regarding my other edit, it removed redundancy, increasing clarity and brevity. The essential part of the original sentence was, "Although the same river, this portion was given a different name by separated settlers in different regions. . . ." Obviously, "settlers in different regions" and "separated settlers" are one and the same, so one of these references should be edited out. The phrase "separated settlers" is somewhat odd and ambiguous, while describing them as "settlers in different regions" is plain and clear, but both are used to refer to populations of settlers who inhabited different regions. Hence the latter edit resulted in ""Although the same river, this portion was given a different name by settlers in different regions. . . ."

As the action of reverting these edits sprang from your baseless conclusion that they were "a test," I repeat, you made a mistake. BKWhopper (talk) 18:20, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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