User talk:108.56.169.222

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Introduction to contentious topics
Hi 108.56.169.222, your recent contributions regarding an ACLU statement seem to be incompatible with the "logged-in, have 500 edits and an account age of 30 days" requirement described in the blue box above. Please have a look at WP:A/I/PIA and WP:ARBECR for details. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:15, 20 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I just saw your disagreement with whether this is part of the topic area (Special:Diff/1187331638, Special:Diff/1187254531) and would like to clarify that it is. Such topic area definitions are "broadly construed"; I usually explain this by saying that if you are unsure whether something is part of the area, it likely is. Wikipedia's general banning policy has a section about topic bans, and most of the information there applies to the "500 edits" restriction too. If there are questions, please ask them; if there is disagreement, please voice it; if you'd like to complain, perhaps WT:AC/C is the best place for doing so – but continuing to make edits related to the Arab-Israeli conflict will lead to a block from editing. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:46, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, William C. Smith Jr., but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 00:33, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I did reply the ACLU resource. It is here. ACLU of Maryland Statement in Support of CASA and the First Amendment | ACLU of Maryland | ACLU of Maryland exists to empower Marylanders to exercise their rights so that the law values and uplifts their humanity. (aclu-md.org) 108.56.169.222 (talk) 00:35, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 00:38, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Your off-topic post at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests has been removed. You posted the following:

This has nothing to do with Wikipedia Arbitration, and belongs on the talk page of an article, though I cannot tell which one (might be an ACLU-related article or one about a specific issue or place).

Also, please see WP:Contentious topics. A "contentious topic" designation means the is a nexus of controversy. (And one of the consequence of this is that brand-new editors cannot direclty edit the article, an anti-trolling measure.) It doesn't have anything to do with whether some particular claim you want to put in the article is itself controversial (though ACLU-MD labeling a bunch of state senators First Amendment violators is pretty much guaranteed to be a controversial action anyway). What's not controversial is that the ACLU-MD did atually do what they did, but that's not relevant to the contentious topic designation. Anyway, you need to go find the article in question again, and post your request to its talk page. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  11:10, 3 December 2023 (UTC)