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Your submission at Articles for creation: John Flemm (August 28)

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Hello, ZebulonMorn! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Misplaced Pages where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Safari Scribe 06:41, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Flemm (August 28)

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:John Flemm and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Misplaced Pages's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Flemm (August 28)

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Doug Weller talk 09:36, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! -- Pemilligan (talk) 06:39, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Military icon decorations

Hi ZebulonMorn. You have been adding a lot of military icon decorations to politician infoboxes. The Misplaced Pages Manuel of Style indicates that icons added to articles should serve an encyclopedic purpose and not merely be decorative.(MOS:ICONDECORATION) Also, these decorative military icons place undue emphasis on one aspect of the individual.(WP:NPOV, WP:STRUCTURE, MOS:FLAGCRUFT) Please do not add these icons back after they have been removed by another editor until you gain consensus for the addition on the talk page. Thanks. --Guest2625 (talk) 08:59, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Tom_Barrett_(Michigan_politician). There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. MOS:FLAGCRUFT BBQboffin 19:04, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

I also reverted per MOS:FLAGCRUFT on two other pages, where you had previously been reverted by another editor. Please review the policy and kindly self-revert on other pages so it doesn't make more clean-up work for other editors. BBQboffin 19:13, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

To add to the points raised by Guest2625 and BBQboffin, you've recently re-added a bunch of these with the rationale of "Military history and significance germane to government position" - that's not an appropriate reason. No one is proposing removing the information itself, but its significance doesn't mean that decoration is needed. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:23, 29 November 2024 (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. Also, these are not "minor edits" since they are points of dispute with multiple editors. Please review WP policy on when to capitalize common nouns like "colonel" and self-revert the WP:FLAGCRUFT on the pages you've added it to. If you won't discuss these matters here the next step is for us to ask an administrator to block your editing privileges. Please don't let it get to that point. BBQboffin 16:30, 29 November 2024 (UTC) BBQboffin 16:30, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Jamieson Greer

Hello, I'm Engineerchange. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Jamieson Greer, 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. --Engineerchange (talk) 04:33, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

December 2024

Hi ZebulonMorn! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Misplaced Pages—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. You've already been warned about this, please stop. Doug Weller talk 08:49, 1 December 2024 (UTC)