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Happy editing! Graham87 (talk) 05:18, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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November 2024

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, in your recent edit to Bartolomeo Cristofori, 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. Graham87 (talk) 05:18, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits

Hello, I have gone through all your edits. Your edit pattern of going through articles about people from various countries (often ex-Soviet) and various names (e.g. Bartolomeo) is highly interesting. Have you previously had an account here?

Firstly, a positive aspect of your editing: thank you for removing overuse of flags in such articles as Cape Malays.

However, a general theme of Wikipedia's Manual of Style is that if two or more ways of doing things are equally correct, all other things being equal, the initial editor of the article gets to decide which way is used. Mass-imposing your view of, say, how birthplaces should be laid out, is not at all helpful, especially either on a large number of articles or with a new account.

Sticking to the Manual of Style, please do not remove language templates (i.e. the code surrounded by {{braces like this}}, from articles, as you did at Vedeno. Such language templates are used for accessibility for screen reader users like myself.

I am not the only established editor to have reverted your edits. Ymblanter did so at Great Liakhvi because we really don't remove autonomous entities like that; ditto for Ksani. Also Mattythewhite reverted your edits at Kakha Kaladze as "not needed", honestly similar to my sentiment. Graham87 (talk) 08:27, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for slowing down. However, in your edit to Roman Catholic Diocese of Oca, you added overlinking to the common word "Latin". I know that language templates like {{langx}} link those by default, but it's not linked in the "Oca" article so you shouldn't arbitrarily override the decisions of the editors there. Also, more importantly, alt text (like that you added to the article) is not for a translation of the caption in to another language; it's for people who can't see the images like myself per the relevant guideline. Graham87 (talk) 02:07, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Pamplonita River, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Basin.

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Disambiguation link notification for December 1

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Alptakin

added a link pointing to Capital

Second battle of Dongola

added a link pointing to Kingdom

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Issues with your editing

Hi - I see above that Graham87 asked you to slow down and be more careful when you are adding links to articles. I'm here to ask the same thing - you are making mistakes, which is fine (everybody does), but when you make lots of them, and don't listen to advice, it can be disruptive. For example, in this edit, you are linking the word 'writer'. That is a very common word, and does not need to be linked, as discussed at MOS:OL. It is also problematic because it is right next to another word you have linked (Syrian), which leads to the problem described at SOB - don't link adjacent words if it is at all possible to avoid doing it. You've done the same sort of thing here, here and here - all overlinking, SOB, or both, and that was just from a few of your edits from today I clicked on at random. Please could you slow down, read the guidance about linking, and be more considerate about what words you link? Girth Summit _(blether) 17:12, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're still going at it. In your edits since the previous message was sent, you added consecutive links at Baghdad Street (Damascus), overlinking to the common word "Captain" at Sabaa Bahrat Square (Damascus), and a link to the square shape rather than the meaning of town/city square to Farhat Square. If you continue this sort of editing pattern without responding to messages, you may be blocked. Thanks for your removal of country links at the latter article (among other places) though, but I wonder why you're editing so fast. Graham87 (talk) 05:47, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also note this edit, where you linked the word church to church, a disambiguation page, and you attempted to linked to three-nave, a redlink that goes nowhere - if it had worked, this would have had SOB issues. I am afraid that I think that your linking has, on balance, been to the detriment of the articles you have worked on, and since you seem unwilling to address the concerns that have been brought to you (either by responding on this talk page, or modifying the way you are editing), I am going to block your account from editing article space. If you wish to continue editing, you can appeal this block, but you are going to have to respond to the concerns of other editors. Best Girth Summit _(blether) 11:19, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain namespaces ((Article)) for disruptive editing.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Girth Summit _(blether) 11:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll note that you remain able to edit articles' talk pages - you can propose that links be added on those if you wish. Alternatively, you could undertake to address the concerns that have been raised and request unblock. Girth Summit _(blether) 11:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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