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— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:45, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
And please see WP:NOTFORUM. Drmies (talk) 22:59, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Ilan Pappé
You are the one who is removing cited content, so it is your responsibility to start a talk page discussion about it. ... discospinster talk 23:21, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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- Hello, I just saw the announcement about the arbitration. While I was writing, I saw the message about the blocking.
- First, until December 20, 2023, no notification about "ARBPIA restrictions" was sent. I knew there were limitations but I thought the limitations only applied where the pages could not be edited. I found out about it when I saw the message on the talk page (and it also took some time before I saw this message, not on the same day if I'm not mistaken).
- Second, a significant part of my edits on the English Misplaced Pages (mainly the new ones) are unrelated to the conflict. This is not about wars, the peace process, mutual claims of the parties and the relations between them. Most of my edits dealt with rural areas, rural settlements or archeology in Israel. שמי (2023) (talk) 13:04, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
Per WP:ARBECR, you may only make edit requests for AI articles and I have reverted your edits at Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (2023–present). Since you have already been blocked once for violating ECR, please take care that you comply with the restrictions. Selfstudier (talk) 18:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Can't I even suggest ideas on the talk page? Also, why is there no restriction on the ability to edit like on the page about the Israel-Hamas war? שמי (2023) (talk) 18:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- The restriction is spelled out in WP:ARBECR, please read it. The only thing you may do until you have 500 edits is make straightforward edit requests. Whether a page is protected is a separate matter from the restrictions, although it often happens that an AI related article will be protected following disruption of some sort. Selfstudier (talk) 18:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
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