User talk:ScottishHistoryBloke

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December 2023

Your edit to Selous Scouts has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Loafiewa (talk) 21:30, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Heathhall has been accepted

Heathhall, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 01:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is nice work! BusterD (talk) 02:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Hello, I'm BusterD. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Horses in warfare, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BusterD (talk) 02:17, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit, but since it's been here a while, we require sources when you insert new material. Horses in warfare is regarded as a particularly well-written (A-class reviewed) article, so one should expect pushback from the regulars if you muck up their previous version with unsourced material. BusterD (talk) 02:21, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for my mistake, I should hope that it would not happen again and I will try again at a later date with more citations. ScottishHistoryBloke (talk) 02:23, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't let me spoil your worthy attempt. The work itself looked good. Glad to have you here! But I remember the first time I edited that page and was quickly reverted (for much worse than what you added). It's difficult to improve a page once it's gotten really good, but easy to mess it up, so to speak. Nice to see you working and if I can be of any help, please count on me. BusterD (talk) 02:46, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for keeping all information accurate on Wikipedia, next time I try to improve a page I'll add my sources. Thanks for the offer to assist in future Wikipedia edits, if I feel the need I will contact you. Have a good day. ScottishHistoryBloke (talk) 21:14, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]