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Proposed deletion of Karim Hakimi


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Cyrus the Great
I'm not sure you've actually read the entire article. The bit about a human rights charter is already discussed in the article - and since it's disputed, we can't state anything about it as definite fact the way you did. Dougweller (talk) 19:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2015
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Pahlavi dynasty
Your edits at Pahlavi dynasty have been reverted. I was not the reverting editor, but I was in the process of reviewing the changes and was about to revert them myself. For one thing, your change to the Infobox (from Infobox royal house to Infobox former country) directly contravenes the consensus that was reached in July 2014 on Talk:Pahlavi dynasty. Also, your changes represent an almost entire rewrite of the article, changing its focus from the royal house itself to the history of Iran while under the rule of the Pahlavis. Such extensive changes should be discussed before impelementation. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!
Anytime :) I see you've giving me 3 barnstars thank you.

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Rebel leaders during Achaemenid period
I noticed that you had removed Pedubastis III from the 27th dynasty on the List of pharaohs's page. This does leave out rulers from the list however. I put Pedubastis III back in and Psammetichus IV as well but put in a footnote saying that they are only there due to chronological reasons. I thought I would reach out since you had been doing some editing. My reason for it was that this page is meant to list all the Pharaohs, so more inclusive seemed like the right thing to do. They are also listed as 27th dynasty on their respective pages with the same footnote. This way the articles are at least consistent with each other. Regards AB (talk) 23:19, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Your right, i didnt realize at the time that it would conflict with other pages, thank you for your edit.

Afsharid map issue.
Dear Artin, I will repeat myself for the last time: 1. You can't write what you think as a source. 2. Wikipedia can't be used as a source, you'll have to use a book as a source. 3. Reverting someones edit won't make your claim better, in fact it will only get you in trouble. --HistoryofIran (talk) 00:17, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

-HistoryofIran

1. its not an opinion 2. your right but the articles themselves have sources so i will use those sources 3. I think thats exactly what you did. unless you handwrote everything the way exactly it was before. Look you and me have the same goals and i would really like to discuss this further (perhaps with less atitude next time). | Nader conquers khanate of bukhara further evidence: In 1740, it was conquered by Nadir Shah, the Shah of Iran. source: Soucek, Svat. A History of Inner Asia (2000), p. 180. | Nader conquers khanate of khiva further evidence: The khanate was a dependency of Nadir Shah's Persia between 1740-1747. source: Soucek, Svat. A History of Inner Asia (2000), p. 180. | Naders conquest of the sultanate of muscat further evidence: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afsharids-dynasty (not the same as my map so i will fix that)

-Artin Mehraban

It is, it's your own words, not the words of a reliable scholar. And I have just checked the Soucek source, and it seems like that you are fabricating, since it does not even mention the word Afsharid, you know that you can get reported for that, right? About the last source: I have already read it before (heck, it was me who added it on the article), and I'm pretty sure it doesn't support your claim. --HistoryofIran (talk) 00:39, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

-HistoryofIran

Then im curious as to why it's used as a source in the article about the khanate of bukhara. I just assumed that if it was used as a source that it would be accurate and i am sorry for not acctually reading it. and the reason i sourced the iranica article was because of its inclusion of the sultanate of muscat

-Artin Mehraban

I just checked the Khanate of Bukhara article, and the source clearly wasn't added for that part about Nader Shah, but it's alright, we all make mistakes, heck I make dozens. Inclusion of the Sultanate of Muscat? when does it mention that? could you copy and paste it here so I could see? because I clearly didn't see that when I read the source. --HistoryofIran (talk) 01:08, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

-Artin Mehraban

Then again 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. You should have talked with me about it so please don't try to educate me on wikipedia policies

-Artin Mehraban

I have not been able to find a good source but Nader shah conquering the khanate of khiva and the khanate of bukhara is mentioned many times on other articles. Yet i will keep searching and though this may be hard for you try to be patient

-Artin Mehraban history of iran, all over wikipedia i am finding articles saying he conquered these areas but have no sources. If you change the map back it would contradict with at least AT LEAST 10 articles i have found. The only wikipedia article that helps your central asian claim is an article that says the oxus river was his border, yet the same article says nader fully cinquered the khanate of bukhara. These 2 peices of information contradict each other because the khanate of bukharas most easternly border was close to the syr darya. I am still curious as to why so many articles written by different users, show the same information, yet is not sourced???!!!!???!!!! i would love to hear you opinion on this please

-Artin Mehraban

P.S. I will continue searching for a source. If so many articles give the same kind of information then there should be at least 1 non wikipedia source, other than maps by Iranian nationalists (the extreme kind)

I have found this image to support my claim. each image of to swords forming an x is PROBABLY the location's of a major battle which if you look carefully if above the oxus river, which encyclopedia iranica, shows as the empires northeastern border. The image comes from a chat site so i;m sure the image doesnt originate from there, and hopefully it originates from a sourced site. when ive found a good source i will add it to the afsharid empire article

-Artin Mehraban

Whats strange is that i looked on the encyclopedia iranica page for the afsharid empire (and the link you used as a source) and the map is no longer there???

-Artin Mehraban

I read the book: History of inner asia and it says mohhamad hakim bi submitted to nadir shah (exact sentence: Nadir Shah, the new ruler of Iran, crossed the Amu Darya and, accepting the submission of Muhammad Hakim Bi) It says naders name and it says he crossed the amu darya aka oxus river so your map is wrong because it shows the oxus as a border. It then says mohhamed hakim bi submitted to nadir. After a search i found he was king of the manghit dynasty which controlled the khanate of bukhara. here is the link to the page of the book: http://librarun.org/book/63545/195. I will add this data to the afsharid empire page. I really want to thank you, because now wikipedia has solid evidence from a university book, that nader shah had in fact crossed the amu darya aka oxus and that he conquered more of central asia than originally beleived. Here is the link: http://librarun.org/book/63545/195. though it doesnt say afsharid empire, only saying nader shah, it says mohammad hakim bi submited and his reign was not during the safavid era for sure, so that invasion could be under the safavid flag with nader shah simply being a general

June 2015
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I apologize i though a clear simple map would be nice, oh well i will leave it to the experts, im new since ive only made just a few edits


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Pahlavi State of Iran
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The pahlavi dynasty article is about the royal family, the acctual name of the country was imperial state of iran, since searching that takes you to history of iran i decided to create the seperate article called pahlavi stat of Iran which would be about the former country. you made it a link to the pahlavi dynasty article, these are 2 seperate pages, 1 about the family, one about the former country. I dont think its a copyright violation if its from a wikipedia article, that information and images and etc is available to all to copy and paste. But i will change the text and put it in my own words

-Artin Mehraban
 * Then stRt a new article all in your own words. As an editor with well over 100,000 edits and an Administrator, I tell you it's a copyright violation, see the warning above, not your first for copyvio. Doug Weller (talk) 19:08, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

That's what I was planning on doing. I just wanted to use other articles as a start. I promise you that by June 7 the article will be in its own words.


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for me thats tomorrow. ill finish it on the 8th (for you)

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Dont worry i fixed it. :)

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File:Standard of Cyrus the Great (Achaemenid Empire).svg
You are changing the color of this standard. Why? 06:33, 8 June 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs)

Original research
Please read WP:NOR. Your edit shows an image and you state it's the possible flag of the Median Empire. We'd need an academic source for that meeting WP:RS, we can't use our own opinions. Doug Weller (talk) 06:37, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

I would like to let you know that I have read and studied the policies of wikipedia and I will add a source but tell me if you found this symbol carved into the tomb of an ancient king would you not think of it as some sort of dynastic or Imperial symbol? Since I'm very sire it'll be hard to find a source

It doesn't seem like that image can be found anywhere else. Doug can I just write: symbol that can be found at the tomb of Cyaxares rather than calling it a flag. Because the symbol does acctually appear at his tomb (search it up please ☺). If so I think we'll be ok.

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I understand and your right. At first I saw the article was almost empty but a a few hours later is was much fuller so thank you

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In particular, copyright material from an exterior website shouldn't be added to Wikipedia at all, not even your userspace, not even for a short while. And you can't just rephrase it. See, again, a message I left for you saying *You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.

Just changing words or moving them around won't do. You should not be able to look at your rewording and the original and guess one was copied from the other.

Given the amount of warnings and advice you've been given and the concern of others, I suggest you ask for a mentor. If you continue to ignore the advice you've been given (copyright issues, adding material that is your own opinion and not sourced to reliable sources (which would almost always be academic for the topics you are interested in), etc, I have to question whether you can edit unadvised. You might want to read WP:Competence. Otherwise I will have to take you to WP:ANI and see if there is another solution, which could be a block or a topic ban from articles to do with Iran. Doug Weller (talk) 12:43, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Go ahead and delete it. Live long and prosper ☺

Symbol
Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Medes. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Once again, there is no academic sources stating that the symbol on the tomb is a flag. Doug Weller (talk) 15:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

There is no source saying that what is considered the flag of the achaemenid empire is the actual flag. Mayne not a flag but it some sort of important symbol since it appeared at the tomb of Cyaxares so it can be considered some kind of dynastic or Imperial symbol of the time. I'll replace the word flag with symbol


 * It's a Zoroastrian symbol.    - none of these are decent sources, and searching for images in books is pretty much impossible. Doug Weller (talk) 16:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * This Farvahar is also found at File:Zoroastrianism Tomb Sulaymaniyah province 21.JPG and the Kurdish Wikipedia Doug Weller (talk) 16:46, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

"Pahlavi State of Iran"
We can't have an article with this title because it's a made up name. If you read WP:COMMONNAME it says article titles should be those most commonly found in English reliable sources. It isn't found at all in English sources so far as I can see. Doug Weller (talk) 15:09, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

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Kashtariti
Are you thoroughly satisfied with the rewrite of the article? --Dr. Lurk (talk) 16:50, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes I am very much satisfied. I though you were going to delete it but you madenit great so thank you

Artin


 * I have revision/deleted the copyright material, leaving Dr. Lurk's edits. Only Administrators can view it now. Doug Weller (talk) 10:10, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Responsibility for providing citations
This is specifically about your claims for flags and symbols. The following is a quote from our policy on verifiability. You've already been told about this several times.

"All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution.

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Doug Weller (talk) 10:05, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

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Possibly unfree File:Symbol found at the tomb of cyaxares.png
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Misuse of edit summary
Edit summaries are only for explaining your edit, please don't use them for jokes or what might be seen as a nationalistic comment. Thanks. Doug Weller (talk) 19:56, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

No its cause alexander conquered the empire a while later, so i jokingly said if they had killed his parents earlier it would save them a lot of truble. it was a bad joke and i wont do it again


 * Thanks. Don't forget to sign with 4 tildes, like ~ - if you are using ordinary editing, there are 4 tildes at the bottom of the window you type in " Sign your posts on talk pages: ~ " and you can click there to sign. Doug Weller (talk) 06:06, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Once again, copying from another article without attribution is a copyright violation
I've told you what to do about this, please start following our policy on this. Doug Weller (talk) 16:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Please stop adding OR
Again, you've been told that if you think something is a country's religious symbol, you need a source meeting our criteria, in this case an academic source, probably more than one, before you can add it. Doug Weller (talk) 16:55, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Please don't changed sourced figures
The source for the size of the Timurid dynasty in 1405 is. You changed the figure because you don't agree with it, but that's a violation of WP:VERIFY and WP:NOR. Doug Weller (talk) 14:12, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


 * And you've changed it at List of largest empires despite it having two sources there. You are continually ignoring some of our basic policies and seem unwilling to change your behavior. Are you sure you wouldn't like a WP:MENTOR?


 * Note also that the Catalan atlas is not an academic source, but a WP:Primary source. (This relates to your recent flag edit). Doug Weller (talk) 14:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Im sorry I was lazy when editing the list of larget empires article and I didn't add the proper sources but trust me there are academic sources. You can find those sources that state he conquered delhi ankara and damasxus, on the reference list on the Timur/tamerlane article. I would live it if you could help me add those sourcesbto the list of largest empires article but if not I'll do it myself. But I'll be busy for a while so I'll do it sometime at 12:00 am.


 * No, you need reliable sources giving the size of the empire at a particular time, in this case 1405. Even then we'd probably have to list both numbers. And what you did ended up with numbers that looked as they were sourced but contradicted the source. Note that it appears that by 1405 Delhi was independent. Damascus was sacked but so far as I can see continued to be Mamluk - being conquered doesn't mean it was made part of the empire, if conquered just means he sacked it and left. But none of that matters, what matters is that you need sources meeting our criteria saying "In the year X the Timurid empire covered Y square km". Without that we can't say anything.


 * While I'm at it, a footnote mentioning yourself is more evidence that you despite your keen interest in editing and hard work still don't understand how Wikipedia works. This is why I am suggesting that you get a mentor, an experienced editor that can help you. I can't do that because of my other responsibilities on Wikipedia. I'd strongly suggest that you ask for one, as if this continues I'll have to make a report to WP:ANI and see if others think that you can be helped or if it is necessary to block you from editing. I don't want that to happen if it can be avoided. Doug Weller (talk) 15:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

I forgot about that. I guess he old map is more accurate. I will revert my edits. But I won't get a mentor, since you seem to be paying attention to all my edits I can rely on you to revert things (I'm just joking, but I'm still not getting a mentor, I will spend my time to mentor myself. I don't want to waste someone else's time)

-Artin Mehraban Artin Mehraban (talk) 15:35, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Please stop adding these OR maps
Please stop adding that OR self-fabricated map to the Qajar dynasty article. This is not the first time me and others have politely asked you not to add it. I know you have a genuine interest in showing how "mighty and powerful" those empires were, but we simply can not allow such edits.

Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 21:49, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Dear Louisaragon It is based on this link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Territorial_losses_of_the_qajar_dynasty.png. it mentions some treaties and the date. If those treaties did happen then it means my map is accurate. But you have twice asked me not to add that map so I will let you decide.but please have a look at the map Artin Mehraban (talk) 00:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes I have seen that map. It's spread on the internet. It's not a reliable source as it doesn't state where it got its references and sources from. You can't base your facts from maps, which ever individual on the planet can fabricate and claim that its factual. Iran only ruled the Caucasus and parts of Turkmenistan under the Qajars. Also I just reverted your edits on Azad Khan Afghan, as once again you decided to create a map based on unsourced text. He was a warlord, not an empire creator. A map referes to an entity, which he did not posses over. - LouisAragon (talk) 05:36, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Dear: LouisAragon Though i created it myself, it is based off of the data from the article and this source: Perry, J. R. (1987), "Āzād Khan Afḡān", in: Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 2, pp. 173-174. Online (Accessed February 20, 2012). According to the information, He captured or had control over: Isfahan, Tabriz, Urmia, Azerbaijan, eastern kurdistan, Northern Persia, Southwestern turkemenistan, which is exactly what i did to the map. Also why did you take out the portrait? Artin Mehraban (talk) 05:48, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * He didn't establish an "empire". Jeez. And that "picture", you took from Flickr is an contemporary interpretation by someone. Not reliable as well. - LouisAragon (talk) 05:58, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Edit; as it doesn't seem you're gonna stop with your activities. Ambox notice.svg There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.   Thank you. LouisAragon (talk) 06:14, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Your edits are being discussed at ANI
See WP:ANI and please respond there. Doug Weller (talk) 07:31, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

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I am the owner of that pinterest account which uploaded the image. I will go on pinterest and write an email to: permissions-en@wikimedia.org. -Artin Mehraban

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!
I would love to thanks you very much

June 2015
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for repeated copyright violations and creation of hoax articles. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice:. Sam Walton (talk) 10:59, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * I may have missed it somewhere in the fairly extensive here. But you state, above, that this is your secondary account. Given that this should, as a matter of Wikipedia policy, be freely stipulated, what is your primary account? --<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 21:06, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * They were referring to Artin Mehraba2, an account they created to make that post here, which has been blocked for block evasion. Sam Walton (talk) 21:25, 24 June 2015 (UTC)


 * OK and thank you. Why would they trouble to make a sock account when their access to the talk page of the primary account is available?

Because for some reason it would not allow me to edit my talk page. Also I am blocked and If like it if you add that image to the Azad khan afghan page yourself,since I am powerless to help

I admit my copyright violations are consistant but I have only made 1 hoax page. And I was not purposely trying to vandalize Wikipedia, I just wanted to make a contribution based on sources from webstie: Azadkhanafghan.Com. I though it was reliable because the creator of the website was from the University of Massachusetts after I did a web searcG. I admit to copyright vios but I have stopped since 1 day before I was banned. The last copyright violation I made was when I uploaded a cropped version of a copyrighted image of Azad khan afghan. I didn't violite on purpose. My reason is that On the Wikipedia app wide images appear at the beginning of an article bUT tall images don't. Because of that the image that was placed as azad khans portrait did.not appear first and the first image to appear was his coins. So I uploaded a version of the portrait that was wider so that it would appear on the Wikipedia app Azad khan afghan page first, not realising it violates copyright. I didn't mean to do these things though I was warned many times to get a mentor, but because uses kept calling me a nuisance and an annoyance, I didn't want to bother anybody. I ask for a second chance to redeem myself. I will stop all copyright vios and I will ask a mentor/Wikipedia expert before saving a page. I have no intent to vandalize on wikipedia and I just wanted to contribute. Not to mention that i have made alt of good articles and non copyright vios like the kashtariti article and the portraits of Sadiq khan, Jafar khan, and other articles from that website. I beleive I deserve a second chance and If I make more mistakes THEN ban me for everArtin Mehraban (talk) 15:01, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Artin, please be patient. You have an unblock request a few sections above here which another administrator will review in time. Evading your block by creating new accounts is not the way forward and will make it less likely that you will be unblocked. Sam Walton (talk) 13:39, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

block appeal
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Ok. i did create other accounts but not to evade block. i did that for these reasons: The administrator who banned me beleived that an account called meeeep101 was my creation under WP:Duck. I did not create that account, and (being a muslim) i am not allowed to lie. Considering users like HistoryofIran and LouisAragon have been angry by me they COULD have done this so that standard offer would be broken since it says not to make sock accounts and etc. I did not make that account and i used account Artin Mehraba2 to write something on my talk page when it for some reason didnt allow me to, and i used account Artin Mehraban101 to speack to administrators. Had i really wanted to continue editing unlawfully, i would obviously make a nam that is not artin Mehraban. since the 2 accounts i made have the same name as my main account, its obvious i was not trying to hide anything. I will wait 6 months and see what happens. Artin Mehraban (talk) 19:58, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * For some reason it did not let me edit my own talk page
 * I needed to communicate with other administrators.

Unblock request
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Is there some kind of community service I can do? Like reverting obvious vandalism? Anything pleaseArtin Mehraban (talk) 17:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * No. --<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 21:45, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Recommendation
If you want to continue editing, you should immediately stop creating sock accounts and editing with IPs. As soon as you are discovered, everything your have done is subject to immediate removal. This is just a waste of your time. It takes a lot less time to remove content than it does to add it.

Instead, I'd recommend you review Standard offer and especially the recommendation to make constructive edits to other projects. If you are able to constructively contribute on another project and through those contributions demonstrate copyright compliance and an understanding of verifiability, including utilizing adequate sourcing so that hoax/original research concerns are eradicated, the odds of your block being lifted are substantially higher.

The longer your list of socks grows, however, the more difficult you are likely to find it to contribute without having to worry that what you add will be undone. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps you can save time by only removing edits which violate Wikipedia policy? I dont think my edits on Karim Khan violated any copyright issue and non of it was hoax. I included all my references. so what is the complaint?

Artin Mehraban (talk) 23:13, 10 January 2016 (UTC)


 * You are currently a blocked user. Have you not read WP:EVASION or Blocking policy? Your block applies to you personally, not just this account. Every edit you make "violates Wikipedia policy" (except edits to your own talk page), that is why they are being removed. If you want to edit Wikipedia again, I strongly suggest you follow Moonriddengirl's advice. It's really the only plausible way; otherwise you're just wasting your time because, as she says, "It takes a lot less time for us to remove content than it does for you to add it".--William Thweatt TalkContribs 23:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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