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Happy editing! DB1729 (talk) 02:00, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to User talk:Drmies while logged out. Misplaced Pages's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Hey, it's not very smart to admit to logged-out editing. Also, those edits, they are very disruptive and unencyclopedic: please try editing at Wikia. Drmies (talk) 01:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Misplaced Pages contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at Neron (DC Comics). Stop using the strange bolding of selected words. Your IP range Special:Contributions/2600:1700:7E31:5710:0:0:0:0/64 was blocked for stuff like that. The relevant style guideline is MOS:NOBOLD. Binksternet (talk) 05:32, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thanks for the clean-up and improvement edits to Bobby Rydell! Schazjmd (talk) 19:33, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

MOS:NOPIPE

Hello Mcfoureyes, please read MOS:NOPIPE, it is not necessary to pipe away links to redirects, using a redirect is fine. Regards, Cavalryman (talk) 22:51, 25 March 2021 (UTC).

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April 2021

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits while logged out. Misplaced Pages's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. It appears you have been editing as 172.3.150.197 (talk). Cavalryman (talk) 09:14, 5 April 2021 (UTC).

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Underworld Unleashed. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 23:51, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Your edits

Hi! I see that you've made large numbers of minor edits to several articles, some of which are on my watchlist. Some of those edits are valuable (thank you!), but many are not. Actions such as removing hyphens from hyphenated words, changing correctly-written numbers from words to figures, adding an unnecessary thousands comma and so on are unlikely to be helpful – these are matters governed by editor preference and/or language usage, and it's usually best to leave them as they were. Changing the capitalisation of a link that is anyway piped is completely pointless, as no-one sees it other than in edit mode and the software handles it equally well either way. Before changing something, please ask yourself whether the change is actually an improvement (as opposed to being just a change to an alternative way of writing the same thing). Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:28, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello Mcfoureyes, in line with the above advice, please stop changing the piping for Pointer (dog breed) to English Pointer wherever you see it, in the English speaking world “Pointer” is the correct breed name and this is English language Misplaced Pages. Cavalryman (talk) 21:10, 17 April 2021 (UTC).

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May 2021

I don't really get what's going on here. Please let me know if you need help of some sort, but right now, your editing on that page is pure disruption. --Izno (talk) 00:14, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Mcfoureyes (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I'm only fixing a discarded article for a friend to copy. Three reference numbers within three references were wrong and I changed material in another one. This copy is only for his own personal use (as he has the comics that make up the Underworld Unleashed storyline that are on the discarded list) and will not be distributed anywhere else. I'm not even keeping it on there; in fact, I always switch it back to the currently accepted version when I'm done. So, if I'm putting it back and discarding it again only once in a while when I need to, there's no need to keep blocking me all the time; it's just a waste of my time and yours. After all, what's there to complain about? You've still got the current article. Mcfoureyes (talk) 00:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)!

Decline reason:

If you need instruction in how to view, highlight, and copy/paste an old revision, you could have asked for assistance instead of experimenting. We don't have specific rules for everything conceivable that someone might do wrong, but what you have done is disruptive and hurt the project. The fact that you seem to think that what you've done is okay tells me that removing the partial block would not benefit the project, and as such I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 08:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

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You can view old revisions without making edits to the page... Izno (talk) 00:46, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Or instead of clicking the submit button on the edit page, copy-paste the content you want and then cancel out. Izno (talk) 00:48, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

I can't copy-paste anything because first, I don't know how to do it and never even heard of it until now and second, if it involves actually, physically printing something, I'm not connected to my dad's printer on his computer. Can someone please help me out with this so I don't have to go through this same old routine again? Thanks in advance1Mcfoureyes (talk) 02:16, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Mcfoureyes, your behavior on that article is disruptive and you are simply not allowed to do that to any article, even for a minute or less. I do not understand what you are trying to do, but I do know that you will not be permitted to continue the disruption. Cullen Let's discuss it 02:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

I've already explained what I did it for; it's all right there in black and white. Please point out to me where it says I can't do this and maybe then we can talk.Mcfoureyes (talk) 02:33, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

We have an article about copy and pasting and it has some keyboard shortcuts. It's at Cut, copy, and paste#Common keyboard shortcuts. (You can also copy and paste using right-click in most Internet browsers.) You select some text, then use the shortcut for copy, then go to the place you want to paste the content, then use the shortcut for paste. You can paste to most textboxes, like a private copy in Microsoft Word or a draft in your email account. It doesn't require physically printing anything. Your friend can do it too.

In fact, you can do this while blocked from the article. Go to the article and click the History tab. Click the timestamp of the version you are interested in. If you just want the content, you copy and paste from here. If you want the wikitext, then you can click "View Source". Then copy and paste wherever you want.

Does that all make sense? Izno (talk) 13:35, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

You can also use your Internet browser's Print functionality to print to a digital copy, like PDF. Which also does not require a printer. So you might try that instead if you want a prettier copy than copy-pasting will get you. You can access print just by Ctrl + P in Windows operating system, then you'll probably need to select the target printer. If a PDF printer is not installed, you should ask your dad about installing one. (And again, in all of this, your friend can do it too.) Izno (talk) 13:39, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

I admit I'm wrong. Please unblock me and I won't do what I'm accused of again. In fact, I don't even need to need to do it anymore in the first incident.Mcfoureyes (talk) 06:59, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Then could you explain these edits, which you made in rapid succession a few minutes ago? , , , --bonadea contributions talk 14:21, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Certainly. Some were filling in missing words in sentences, some were removing unnecessary capitalization were none was needed and some was correcting spelling or punctuation errors.

Btw, my apology applies to both this and the above blocking - especially the first one, which is what I referring to when I said that I didn't need to do it anymore.

As for what you just mentioned above, I was correcting two mentions of a book title to what the title is on the actual dust jacket.Mcfoureyes (talk) 14:50, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

You just evaded your partial block at Underworld Unleashed in this edit by the same IP range that you have been using previously. You made the exact same disruptive edit as before. What is going on? Binksternet (talk) 02:18, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

I didn't do it this time, my friend did it at his workplace printer. He messed up on something and I helped him. Mcfoureyes (talk) 02:22, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Mcfoureyes. Thank you. Guy Macon (talk) 06:45, 4 May 2021 (UTC)