User talk:Shane Frederick

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October 2020
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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at WJLA-TV. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges.   Mvcg66b3r (talk) 21:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at WMAR-TV, you may be blocked from editing.   Mvcg66b3r (talk) 15:41, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

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November 2020
Hello, I'm KyleJoan. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, The View (talk show), 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. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. KyleJoan talk 01:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at WUTB. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges.   Mvcg66b3r (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Good Morning America, you may be blocked from editing. Please check your grammar before hitting Publish Limmidy  ( talk ) 23:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at WRC-TV.   Mvcg66b3r (talk) 23:48, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

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Morning news programs
It's not called "breakfast television" in the United States. JTRH (talk) 03:34, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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November 2020
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 60 hours 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:. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:30, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Shane Frederick, I have blocked you for persistently editing Wikipedia links to point to different pages, but leaving text in the original article that doesn't make sense. You were warned many times to stop but did not so I have blocked you from editing temporarily, because you've made a mess of quite a few articles now and you need to understand what you're doing before you edit any more.
 * You're using the visual editor so I'm not sure exactly what you've seen on your screen while making these edits, but quite a few times now you've made an edit like this one where you edited a link to the page sports network which was "piped" so that it appears in the article as sports-oriented (a link to the same page but with different text), which was part of a sentence that read:
 * "NFL Network is an American sports-oriented pay television network that is owned by the National Football League (NFL)."
 * (I"ve shortened it a bit and removed all formatting except for the link.) I think you saw that the page sports network is a redirect to list of sports television channels because that's what you changed the link to, and that's fine as long as you keep the piped text, but your edit removed it. So after your edit, that sentence read:
 * "NFL Network is an American list of sports television channels pay television, television network that is owned by the National Football League (NFL)."
 * I hope you can see why that's not correct. It's bad grammar for one thing, but also the NFL Network is not a list of channels. It seems that in many cases you're "fixing" redirects by replacing the link with a link to the target page, what we call "bypassing" a redirect, but there are good reasons why you should not do this. Please have a look at the guideline at WP:DONOTFIXIT. If you'd like to experiment with different ways of creating a link or a redirect please use your sandbox, and always feel free to ask questions on an article's talk page, at the help desk, or by using the help me template.
 * -- Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:58, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove useful links from an article, such as you did in the article Hearst Television, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. If a URL is rendered a certain way, it should never be changed. Your capitalizing proper names in these URLs breaks the link.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 01:14, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Minor edits
Hello. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! I clicked on your contributions out of curiosity, and I noticed you're marking most of your edits as minor, yet the ones I looked at aren't actually minor. It's an understandable mistake – I often did the same thing when I was starting out here.

The Wikipedia definition of minor is different to what most of us expect. I reviewed Help:Minor edit many times, trying to decide if the changes I was making were minor. It helped me to think of a minor edit as a change that a reader is unlikely to notice (unless it's reverting obvious vandalism: this also counts as minor). Maybe it fixes a typo, or corrects the format of a reference without adding any new information. It doesn't change or add anything very noticeable to the page, and other editors are unlikely to argue about it. SnazzyInfinity (talk • contribs) 16:09, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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December 2020
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to NCAA March Madness (TV program), did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. The article text makes less sense with the changes you made to remove piped links, which are thus disruptive. ViperSnake151   Talk  20:25, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at List of television theme music composers, you may be blocked from editing. Please utilize the article's talk page and build consensus for your additions. And start interacting with others, overall.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 05:51, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You are now officially on your final warning. Start using talk pages and source any changes you want to make, and stop changing links without consensus.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 22:14, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--  Nate  • ( chatter ) 22:19, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

 You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks 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:.  Acroterion   (talk)   22:53, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I've blocked your alternate account indefinitely.This account is likely to be blocked indefinitely if you don't change your approach to editing after the present one expires.   Acroterion   (talk)   22:56, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , it appears that this blocked editor is editing from an IP to avoid their block. See Special:Contributions/24.233.208.230. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:27, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Fully concur. Both this account and that IP address need to be blocked immediately and all edits reverted.  This editor is a terrible writer who appears to be vandalizing Wikipedia by inserting grammar errors all over the place. --Coolcaesar (talk) 07:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)