User talk:Alexandra Medford

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May 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Charmed. 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. —Ute in DC (talk) 21:18, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Witchcraft, you may be blocked from editing. 69.181.248.16 (talk) 01:39, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

More specifically why your edits were reverted: The article Witchcraft is about Witchcraft from an anthropological perspective. We already have a Wicca article. Both articles have sources, which your edits did not have.

First, you eliminated some coding (such as ) that helps people navigate through the encyclopedia. A general rule of thumb with code is that if you do not know what you're doing, don't touch it.

Also, your edits were generally unnecessary:
 * "Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural and magical powers. Historically, it was widely believed that witchcraft involved the use of these powers to inflict harm upon members of a community or their property."


 * This is just unnecessary rephrasing that goes against the manual of style, and eliminates some good information (such as the etymology).
 * "Since the mid 20th century, the term witchcraft has sometimes been used to distinguish between bad witchcraft and good witchcraft, with the latter often involving healing."


 * This is poorly phrased and unsourced. The word and term witchcraft is in itself not a standard that can be used to distinguish, it is just a word.  It has been distinguished between bad witchcraft and good witchcraft, not "it has been used to."

After that you removed a bunch of sourced information, and replaced it with a bunch of unsourced information.

Here are the reliable sourcing guidelines, here are the guidelines on citing sources, and here are the neutral point of view guidelines. Read them.

You also deleted the links to this article in other languages, which are useful for international users. Again, if you don't know what something does, don't touch it. If you wish to change articles, I recommend that you really think about if your changes are necessary, and bring up your suggested changes on the article's talk page (found in the top left hand section). Just leave a message at the bottom of the article's talk page in a new section (Created by putting two equals signs on each side the thread title, == Like This == ), and sign your post with four tildes ( ~ ). Ian.thomson (talk) 01:54, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Your addition to The Secret Circle (TV series) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  X  eworlebi (talk) 21:29, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

July 2011
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Favonian (talk) 20:07, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Sockpuppet investigations/Alexandra Medford for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. Millahnna (talk) 00:28, 4 August 2011 (UTC)