User talk:Bill edmond

Thanks for the academic contributions!

Deleting sections from Igbo people
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits.

Unexplained blanking
There are times when it is useful to remove entire sectins of articles—because they're wrong, improperly point of view, give undue weight to some area, constitute an attack page and so on. However, unless you give a good reason for removing large portions of content from Igbo people, as you have now quite a few times without as far as I can tell, an explanation either in the edit summary or to the article's talk page, it will be reverted, considered vandalism, and you may be blocked from editing. Please make your edits transparent by explaining your reasoning. It may be that others will agree with your edits once shown that they have a valid basis.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Continued blanking without explanation
Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:50, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Blanking again, last warning
Hi again Bill. Based on the edits of 75.118.53.189, I have to assume that is your ip address and impute any edits made by it to you. This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia as you did to Igbo people you will be blocked from editing. I want to ask you again to explain your edits. I have no familiarity with this subject area so I can't make any sort of informed evaluation of whether the large swath of content you keep blanking has a glaring problem. If their is a legitimate reason for your removal please advise. In its absence, I can only treat it as blanking vandalism.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Notice
I've brought up your continuously disruptive edits from multiple accounts and IPs at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Picaroon (t) 18:24, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text below.

February 2008
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 07:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC) The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. - Jmabel | Talk 17:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Given that you have already been blocked for this in the past, I would strongly suggest that you stop. This is certainly grounds for another block, and if you do it again, I, for one, will not hesitate to block you.
 * [[Image:Stop_hand.svg|left|30px]] This is your last warning.

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Onorem♠Dil 13:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for. Please stop. You're welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text below. Gwernol 13:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Oru na Nneude
I have nominated Oru na Nneude, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Oru na Nneude. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 13:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Removal of red links from Imo State
Although many articles aren't very well maintained, lists should only include WP:NOTABLE entities (in this case, people with an article). See List. Please stop reverting my changes to Imo State. I'm only removing entries without articles. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:04, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

eBay links
Please do not add eBay links to articles, as you did to Imo State, Igbo people, and Ezebuiro Obinna. They are considered spam on WP. See WP:ELNO. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Please read the messages I've left for you above. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 11:05, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 11:07, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with File:Warrior41b.jpg
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Image copyright problem with File:The Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior4c.JPG
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Image copyright problem with File:Ultimate Dr Sir Warrior34.jpg
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License tagging for File:The Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior4c.JPG
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Image copyright problem with File:Warrior-in-USA.jpg
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Image copyright problem with File:Warrior-in-London.jpg
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Your uploads
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Orphaned non-free image (File:The Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior2.jpg)
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Orphaned non-free image (File:The Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior3.jpg)
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Orphaned non-free image (File:The Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior4.JPG)
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December 2009
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Imo State, you will be blocked from editing. - Ankimai (talk) 18:16, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Exalgo
A tag has been placed on Exalgo, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Copyright
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the article Exalgo, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition was deleted under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text—which means allowing other people to modify it—then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You may also e-mail or mail the Foundation to release the content. See Donating copyrighted materials for more.

While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. CIreland (talk) 14:49, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced addition here
Hi there. With this and subsequent edits from December 14 2007 you added the "Origin" section into the Owerri article. Unfortunately the entire section is unsourced. All material added into Wikipedia articles must be properly backed up by reliable and verifiable sources. Since this is not the case I have tagged the Origins section with the 'Unreferenced section' template, and would ask you to please provide the required reliable verifiable sources for your addition. If no sources are provided for the Origin section then the unsourced material will have to be deleted from the article. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 21:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

April 2011
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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Ikedi Ohakim. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Amsaim (talk) 21:02, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
Please do not add unsourced content. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. PTJoshua (talk) 01:09, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

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Youtube links in ledes for composers and pieces
You have recently been adding external links to youtube in classical music articles, often in the lede. This is a violation of WP:EL and I and another editor have reverted these edits. Please do not spam Wikipedia.

Thanks,

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December 2011
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Jac 16888 Talk 17:32, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven). It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Doniago (talk) 17:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

File:The Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior1.jpg listed for deletion
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Copyrights
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Please acquaint yourself with Wikipedia's 5 pillars
Hi there.

You have repeatedly added unsourced material into various Wikipedia articles. Your additions violate against Wikipedia's three Core content policies:


 * 1) Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) – All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias.
 * 2) Verifiability (WP:VER) – Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.
 * 3) No original research (WP:NOR) – Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.

Your repeated unsourced additions of the word "igbo" in Nigerian city & town related articles suggest that you are trying to force your own point of view unto the articles. This is not how Wikipedia works.

I have gone through your recent 100 contributions and had to revert and remove several unsourced additions of yours.

Please take some time and thoroughly familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's 5 Pillars of Editing before editing any Wikipedia article again.

Understand this, that if you should continue to add unsourced material into Wikipedia articles, or if you continue to push your own point of view into Nigerian city & town articles, or if you continue to add your own original research into any Wikipedia article, you will be reported to the Administrator's board.

Thank you. 93.133.28.189 (talk) 13:38, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Addition of unsourced material
Hello, I'm 77.4.191.94. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Igbanke, 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. 77.4.191.94 (talk) 17:57, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Urhobo people, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. 77.4.139.67 (talk) 10:27, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Kingdom of Bonny. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. 77.4.180.107 (talk) 09:07, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Opobo. 77.4.180.107 (talk) 09:09, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. You can reach the discussion here. Thank you. 77.4.178.87 (talk) 17:47, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Igbo Akiri


The article Igbo Akiri has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Unsourced. Editor blocked indefinitely for POV warring,

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Black Kite (talk) 18:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

September 2015
You have been blocked temporarily from editing for persistent disruptive editing. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. 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:. Black Kite (talk) 18:01, 10 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Please see WP:Communication is required. Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 10:39, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

The problem here is that you are trying to reassure us that you are always right. That isn't an effective way to get unblocked. Right or wrong, when someone reverts you, you have to communicate with them, discuss it. Accept the opportunity to persuade, yet accept the situation when consensus is against you. And with all due respect, I find it difficult to believe that is your normal diction, else you would be airing it more regularly. Before this is formally reviewed, maybe you could expand a bit, in plain English, on how you expect to move forward. Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 15:53, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

This editor is not here to build an encyclopedia
Bill edmond's unblock request indicates that this editor appears to be knee-deep in a conflict of interest. His past edits strongly suggest that he is on a mission to place the words "igbo town", "igbo city" into the opening sentence of the lead section of Nigerian city articles without providing any references for his edits.

Apparently he does not understand why he is being blocked. In his unblock request, he points his fingers at others, accusing them of "misspelling the names of certain communities". That's not why he was reported to WP:ANI. He was reported because he repeatedly added unsourced material into Nigerian City and town articles; unsourced material which ulitmately leads to an additional violation of Wikipedia's Core content policies of WP:NPOV and WP:OR.

To this editor, Wikipedia policies and guidelines seem to be irrelevant. Why else will he not mention at least one of them in his unblock request? What appears to be relevant to him is his claim of being "an indigenous authority" and "a bonafide indigene".

A Wikipedia editor who does not acknowledge Wikipedia's policies and guidelines should not be permitted to edit Wikipedia articles. Even if an administrator should agree to unblock Bill edmond, this editor should receive a topic ban and be prohibited from editing Nigerian city and town related articles. 77.4.183.67 (talk) 12:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Comment: For the second time in a row, in his second unblock request, editor Bill edmond has again failed to address the reason for his block, as given by the blocking admin Black Kite: persistent disruptive editing (based upon this report at WP:ANI). Bill edmond's promise that "he will always try to provide references for his edits" is not encouraging at all, because references must be provided at all times, most especially in controversial cases. I would like to again appeal to the Admins to strongly consider a topic ban on Nigerian City articles for Bill edmond if an admin should consider unblocking him. Thank you. 93.133.23.16 (talk) 09:06, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Bill edmond, please answer those questions in detail (not just yes/no) if you want to be unblocked:
 * 1) Do you understand the reason you were blocked?
 * 2) Do you understand that Wikipedia is collaborative project and that you have to discuss your edits with other editors?
 * 3) What will you change in your behavior if unblocked?
 * 4) Do you agree to be subjected to a WP:topic ban from all edits related to the Igbo people (broadly construed)?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:47, 16 January 2016 (UTC)