User talk:MauriceHoward

Welcome MauriceHoward! Hello MauriceHoward. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions!

I'm Sm8900, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type  here on your talk page and someone will try to help. To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Mypage/sandbox&action=edit&preload=Template:User_Sandbox/preload create your own personal sandbox] for use any time. It's perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put  on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.

Please remember to: The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun!
 * Always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the OOUI JS signature icon LTR.png button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes  at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your signature, a link to your talk page, and a timestamp.
 * Leave descriptive edit summaries for your edits. Doing so helps other editors understand what changes you have made and why you made them.

 Sincerely, Sm8900 (talk) 05:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)   [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sm8900&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

Español

Deutsch

Français

Italiano

עברית

Русский

日本語

Polski

فارسی Sm8900 (talk) 05:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

"Adding and removing spaces"
Please stop making edits just to tweak the whitespace in articles. It doesn't really provide any benefit to the reader in and of itself, and it floods people's watchlists. It's fine if you're doing other stuff to the article, but on its own it's not necessary. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:09, 11 June 2022 (UTC)


 * They're still doing this, even though it doesn't change the display of the page at all.
 * They also keep making changes to Wikipedia:Backlog - Wikipedia which I don't understand, but they might be constructive edits. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 16:18, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Still doing it. Mccapra (talk) 08:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

September 2022
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain namespaces ((Article)) for editing solely to add or remove whitespace from articles, with zero communication or alteration following several talk page messages/warnings. As I said in my first message, this is generally considered annoying and floods watchlists and edit histories with pointless edits. I will be happy to unblock you if you acknowledge the issue. 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:. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 16:54, 7 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I believe they are still doing this, just under an IP now. User talk:146.113.128.115
 * You can see here that MauriceHoward was doing all the edits to this page, and now it is just this IP.
 * They've started to move category tags around while doing their white space changes so it looks less obvious. 71.11.5.2 (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
 Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:55, 29 November 2022 (UTC)