User talk:Joshlaher

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Hello, Joshlaher, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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December 2018
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Weight management has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 20:53, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ClueBot NG makes very few mistakes, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made was constructive, please read about it, [ report it here], remove this message from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this message: Weight management was changed by Joshlaher (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.951169 on 2018-12-10T20:53:48+00:00

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Vegan cheese, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 20:56, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at Healing, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:58, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Holism. RA 0808 talkcontribs 21:00, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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Ian.thomson (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions notification
Ian.thomson (talk) 21:05, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Additionally, there are discretionary sanctions in place for articles relating to pseudoscience and fringe science. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:05, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Slow down
You have been blocked temporarily from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:06, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Read the above section summarizing some policies and guidelines. While I have pre-written those summaries, they were selected from a much larger list based on your editing behavior.  You can't just crash through like a bull in a China shop, posting your opinions at the top of any article, this community has social contracts to minimize disruption and ensure accuracy.  Unless someone has "bot" at the end of their name, they are a human being that you will need to communicate with.  As most of your edits fall well under the discretionary sanctions for both pseudoscience and alternative medicine, the next block is likely to be indefinite. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:09, 10 December 2018 (UTC)