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Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Bhutan , please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Misplaced Pages:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:32, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Vietnam . When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:32, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Please cite supporting sources

You have made a number of edits today to sections of various articles involving statistics about religion -- changing figures in those articles without citing sources supporting your changes, See here. Please re-edit those articles and cite your supporting sources. Please read the Misplaced Pages policy on Verifiability Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:15, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Please cite correct sources when changing content here in Misplaced Pages. And please do not remove content or change content which is backed up by proper sources. Please read Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view carefully if you want to contribute to Misplaced Pages in a constructive way. - Takeaway (talk) 11:07, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please stop adding irrelevant content to articles as you did to Hinduism in Turkey. Nothing in the content bears any relevance to the subject. - 11:29, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

June 2012

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Religion in the Philippines, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Misplaced Pages:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 10:27, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Philippines. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 10:35, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Christianity, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 10:39, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Taiwan. Please review the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 10:46, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Religion in Taiwan. Please review the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 10:51, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Christianity in Japan, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 10:53, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Buddhism in Italy. Please review the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. When citing sources, please take care that the sources are indeed correctly cited. Also only add relevant content to articles. Please do not add content which does not mention the subject of the article. - Takeaway (talk) 11:22, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Hinduism in Cyprus. Please review the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. When citing sources, please take care that the sources are indeed correctly cited. Also only add relevant content to articles. Please do not add content which does not mention the subject of the article. - Takeaway (talk) 11:35, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Buddhism in the Middle East. Please review the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 11:48, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Buddhism in Italy, you may be blocked from editing. - Takeaway (talk) 21:21, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Hinduism in the West Indies, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. - Takeaway (talk) 09:35, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Misplaced Pages, as you did at Christianity in Thailand, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 09:40, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

July 2012

This is your last warning. The next time you add unsourced material to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Christianity in Thailand, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - Takeaway (talk) 13:18, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you add unsourced material to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Christianity, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - Takeaway (talk) 13:41, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you add unsourced material to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Buddhism in Africa, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - Takeaway (talk) 13:56, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Please stop. Articles on Misplaced Pages do not give fringe material equal weight to majority viewpoints; content in articles are given representation in proportion to their prominence. If you continue in this manner, you may be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. - Takeaway (talk) 14:06, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you add unsourced material to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Hinduism in Africa, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - Takeaway (talk) 14:16, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Please cite sources correctly and do not add in your personal analyses as you again did in Hinduism in Africa. - Takeaway (talk) 02:06, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you add unsourced material to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Christianity in Thailand, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - Takeaway (talk) 22:49, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

ONLY ADD INFORMATION WHICH HAS BEEN PROPERLY REFERENCED AND NOT PURELY DERIVED FROM WHAT YOU SPECULATE TO BE TRUE IN ORDER TO PUSH YOUR POINT OF VIEW! If you continue this way, you will be reported. - Takeaway (talk) 17:32, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

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Your Response is Required

In lieu of blocking you at the moment, I have taken the unique step of protecting 3 of your recently-edited articles from further edits.

This is out of the possibility that you have either not been reading this very talkpage, or that you would like to explain yourself on the WP:ANI report about your editing.

Misplaced Pages runs on WP:CONSENSUS, and does not permit original research. Knowing how you understand the 5 pillars of Misplaced Pages, an explanation of why you're breaking so many Misplaced Pages policies, and an understanding of how you intend to proceed in the future will be key to whether or not the project is forced to block you from editing (✉→BWilkins←✎) 21:19, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I apologize for breaking Misplaced Pages rules. From now on, I will try to find verifiable sources to my articles.

Your recent edits

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Hello, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is invited to contribute, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Talk:Religion in Africa, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. I dream of horses

Ignore that. I made a mistake. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 19:50, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Appropriate sources

Try using established newspapers (any newspaper we have an article on will probably do in most cases), scholarly journals, and books published by university presses. Try to avoid sources affiliated with the subject you are writing about. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

I agree. I will try to find verifiable sources on the religions I wrote about.

Regarding your edits to Religion in Africa

I had to drastically cut out a lot of material that failed site policies and guidelines, as already explained to you on Talk:Religion in Africa.

• Here I removed your introduction to the Dharmic Religions section because the sources cited do not mention Africa or the Middle east at all. Additionally, Indianhistory.info and historyfiles.co.uk do not meet the reliable sources standards. I've explained that to you before.
• Here I removed material completely unsupported by any source.
• Here I removed New World Encyclopedia, which is a wiki. As Qwyrzian explained on Talk:Religion in Africa, wikis, blogs, self-published sites, and forums are not reliable sources.
• Here I removed Strategyleader.org, which is just some guy's personal website and not a reliable source.
• Here I removed unsourced information, as well as information not supported by reliable sources. Dhammawiki.com, being a wiki, is not reliable. Pataka.dhamma.org brcixopo.co.za are affiliated with the subject and cannot be used to prove notability. Anyone can create those kinds of sites, so they're not really verifiable.
• Here I removed material completely irrelevant to the article. The worldwide number of Sikhs does not inform the reader how many are in Africa.
• Here I removed the rest of the Sikhism section, because the Foreign Policy magazine did not say that Sikhism was an increasing presence in Africa.
• Here, *here, and here I removed sources that did not mention Africa at all. One only discussed worldwide expansion, but a source has to mention expansion into Africa to be useful in the article.

Ian.thomson (talk) 17:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Please discuss on talk

Please address my concerns on talk about you again adding inappropriate material to Religion in Africa. If you cannot provide suitable justification, I'm going to remove everything you added. Qwyrxian (talk) 21:35, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Please do not insert fringe or undue weight content into articles, as you did to Religion in Africa. An article should not give undue weight to any aspects of the subject but should strive to treat each aspect with a weight appropriate to its significance to the subject. Please use the article's talk page to discuss the material and its appropriate weight within the article. Krizpo, address the concerns Qwyrxian and I raised in the edit summaries before trying to restore the contested material. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Religion in Africa shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:16, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Dude, you are messing up the page. It actually looked good after my edit.(Krizpo (talk) 00:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)).

Multiple editors with a laundry list of policies and guidelines to cite disagree completely. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:35, 26 July 2012 (UTC)