User talk:46.31.112.214

November 2022
Hello, I'm The Banner. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions&#32;to Istanbul Airport have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. The Banner talk 12:19, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

December 2022
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to M1 Abrams. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Loafiewa (talk) 11:58, 23 December 2022 (UTC)


 * My contribution was constructive. However, your reversal was definitely full of POV. Stop being biased please.

February 2023
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Syrian Democratic Forces, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 06:03, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course they're constructive. Otherwise I would not have made them. 46.31.112.214 (talk) 06:13, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to M1 Abrams. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 06:17, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * No, it's not vandalism. Stop being offensive and full of POV. It is the so-called Islamic State. 46.31.112.214 (talk) 06:19, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * See Talk: Talk:M1_Abrams. 46.31.112.214 (talk) 06:24, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on M1 Abrams. 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.

Points to note: 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. Favonian (talk) 13:38, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 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.

June 2023
 Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing from certain pages (M1 Abrams) for a period of 3 months for edit warring. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text at the bottom of your talk page:. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Zipporah. Quick Quokka [⁠talk • contribs] 06:59, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

"Turkey" vs. "Türkiye"
Hi! I saw you used the name "Türkiye" as the name of the country generally known in English as "Turkey" in your recent edit.

Q: Why don't you use the name Türkiye, the correct name for this country?

A: Because the English-language Wikipedia has a WP:COMMONNAME policy. We use names for countries and places that are the names commonly used for them in English, regardless of what official organizations use. Technically, this kind of name is known as an exonym. For example, we use the name Germany, instead of the native endonym Deutschland, and we use the name Japan instead of the native name 日本.

(Notice that this does not apply when we are quoting a literal name in Turkish; for example, the newspaper is called Türkiye, not Turkey. To do that would be hypercorrection, and we don't do that. Nor do we mangle the name into English in direct quotations in the Turkish language, nor in URLs. But it does apply for all uses in the English language; so the capital is Ankara, Turkey, not "Ankara, Türkiye")

If or when that general English-language usage changes (as has happened in the past with place names such as Mumbai and Beijing), the same WP:COMMONNAME policy implies that the English-language Wikipedia will necessarily also follow suit. So far, that hasn't happened.

This has been discussed many times, with the same result every time because of the common name policy. If you'd like to discuss this further, please take it up at Talk:Turkey. However, for the reasons given above, there is currently a moratorium on further requests for name changes to the Turkey article until 1 December 2023. &mdash; The Anome (talk) 12:34, 1 August 2023 (UTC)