User talk:Therock40756

First African American settlers
Hello. Please refrain from copying and pasting things into Wikipedia, as you did with this page. Wikipedia cannot accept pages that violate the site's copyright policies. Chubbles (talk) 07:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:NOR
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. This is especially important when dealing with biographies of living people, but applies to all Wikipedia articles. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add your reference to the article.  Yahel  Guhan  04:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

February 2008
Please remember to mark your edits as minor if (and only if) they genuinely are minor edits (see Help:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.'  Jons63 (talk) 01:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute 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.

Image copyright problem with Image:275px-AfricanAmericans4.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:275px-AfricanAmericans4.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by STBotI. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 21:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:275px-AfricanAmericans4x.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:275px-AfricanAmericans4x.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by STBotI. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 21:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Obama family
I have nominated Obama family, 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/Obama family. 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. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Loonymonkey (talk) 17:00, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

African immigrants AfD
I noticed you didn't format Articles for deletion/African immigration to the United States properly or add it to Articles for deletion/Log/2008 May 30. I've addressed this. In the future, you might want to see Guide to deletion. Cheers. N (t/c) 03:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Obama family
You do not own this or any page on Wikipedia. Please do not remove AfD notices, reinstate unsourced material without discussion, or - especially - use uncivil edit summaries. If you continue, you may be blocked. N (t/c) 15:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Obama's mother's race
Hello, I noticed that you have taken away the reference to Obama's mother being white. This is very relevant and a defining characteristic of Obama and it very much should be in the entry.JackWilliams (talk) 02:18, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Most Kenyans are black, but you make a good point that perhaps we should include that his father was a "black Kenyan." But I think that race is relevant.JackWilliams (talk) 02:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Inappropriate edit summary.
Please don't refer to good faith edits as "vandalism" as you did at Barack Obama. Talk discussion shows concerns about the reliability of the certificate's sources, which is understandable. Shem(talk) 20:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Black Hispanic
This is about black Americans, not black Latinos. Fclass (talk) 02:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

They're Hispanic-Americans. They count toward the Hispanic population. Fclass (talk) 16:19, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Disruptive editing on African American
There is no consensus for the addition of the material that you keep adding (and numerous other editors keep removing). If you continue to add it without a consensus, you will be blocked. OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:51, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:275px-AfricanAmericans5.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:275px-AfricanAmericans5.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by STBotI. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 07:31, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Template:African American ethnicity
Please stop adding your personal preference against consensus, and please don't leave untruthful edit summaries. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 20:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I explained at Talk:African American: Virtually all the editors who have written there agree that including Obama during the presidential campaign might be seen as a political endorsement.
 * Have you considered adding some of the other famous African-Americans suggested at Talk:African American? — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 21:02, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe you don't understand what "consensus" means. The fact that the page has been stable for months means that there has been a consensus to leave it alone. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 21:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 21:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Unspecified source/license for Image:275px-AfricanAmericans6.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:275px-AfricanAmericans6.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 00:11, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Unspecified source/license for Image:275px-AfricanAmericans4.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:275px-AfricanAmericans4.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 00:11, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Template:African American ethnicity
Regarding this template, the long-running edit war between you and User:Malik Shabazz has come to my attention. As there has been no discussion of whatever the disagreement is, I have protected the template against all editors for 5 days. Although it is presently not on your preferred version, this is not an endorsement of either version. I would ask you to leave a note on the template's talk page explaining your position and inviting comment from the other party. If on the expiry of the protection the edit war resumes, I will block both of you without further warning since such a long-term edit war without any effort at resolution is not acceptable. I will also ask User:Malik Shabazz to leave a note on the template's talk page, so please keep an eye out for that and engage with the discussion when it appears. Regards, Splash - tk 15:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 21:39, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Edward James Roye
This is where I got Edward James Roye's Igbo heritage from,

Thank you.Ukabia (talk)

Obama Family
"Relevant connections to the subject of another article that will help readers to understand the current article more fully". Precisely. How do links to Michelle Obama and the two Obama children help readers understand the current article (African Americans) more fully? — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 03:30, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No, I'm not kidding. Can you explain how Michelle Obama helps the reader understand the subject of African Americans? Better still, how does Sasha Obama enlighten the reader? — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 01:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:African American ethnicity
I'd appreciate your thoughts at Template talk:African American ethnicity. Thanks. — Malik Shabazz 05:08, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Social conservatism
Look at the title of the article, "Blacks as Conservative as Republicans on Some Moral Issues". The article says that, on some issues, the views of African Americans are closer to Republicans than they are to white Democrats (which is what the Wikipedia article says). It doesn't say anything about being more conservative than "the general American public". — Malik Shabazz 17:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:V and WP:NOR, especially WP:SYNTH. You are trying to make your own analysis of what the source says, and that is not permitted by policy. — Malik Shabazz 04:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I see you haven't read WP:SYNTH yet. Please do. — Malik Shabazz 02:13, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

May 2009
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. — Malik Shabazz 03:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Inappropriate edit summaries
Please stop using inappropriate edit summaries. Go ahead and make changes related to Native Americans and African Americans, but don't hide them behind unrelated edit summaries. — Malik Shabazz 02:26, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


 * This, this, and this. Your edits include changes completely unrelated to the edit summaries. — Malik Shabazz 02:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009
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. — Malik Shabazz 15:42, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Aftrican American article internal links
Thanks for adding the great links Reconstruction era of the United States and Military history of African Americans. I'm not sure of the piped link to African American culture for African American community. The article on African Americans (see the section "$Cultural influence in the United States" ) already mentions and links to the link you gave in the lead paragraph. Perhaps you might want to start a stub article on "African American community " based on the information that is already covered within the African American article about the development of the community.Pknkly (talk) 05:06, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Template:African American ethnicity (redux)
As you know, you should use the template's Talk page to discuss changes before you make them to the template. Please try to develop a consensus rather than unilaterally making changes. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Race and ethnicity in the United States
I left you a message here.

But you're clearly not a new editor at all. You know our rules well, and I'll seek admin help. I advice you to self-revert in the next few minutes. Thanks. SamEV (talk) 05:02, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi.

Please read what User:C.Fred, an admin, had to say about this, at User talk:SamEV. You're not exempt from the edit warring rule just because you avoid making a fourth revert, since the behavior would still go against the policy. You can also visit his talk page (User talk:C.Fred) to see what I wrote, too. SamEV (talk) 06:13, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

African American
Please do not copy and paste text from sources, as you did at African American. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text "borrowed" from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been deleted. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 17:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

African American
Instead of edit-warring over the chart, please discuss it on the article's Talk page. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

August 2010
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 several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:43, 29 August 2010 (UTC)


 * See WP:ANEW. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please do not copy and paste text from sources, as you did at Martin Luther King, Jr. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text "borrowed" from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been deleted. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 18:10, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for your disruption caused by edit warring and violation of the three-revert rule. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. &mdash; slakr \ talk / 09:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Please see WP:ANEW. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring
This is your last warning for edit warring. Your activity at Martin Luther King, Jr. does not contribute to a collaborative environment. Further warring will result in a lengthy block. --Chris (talk) 21:54, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Please see WP:ANEW. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 19:10, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
Please don't refer to edits you don't like as vandalism. Please read WP:Vandalism, especially What is not vandalism. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:35, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

September 2010
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for your disruption caused by your engagement in an edit war&#32;at Martin Luther King, Jr.. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Courcelles 19:31, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

African-American and bot revert
Your edit here reverted a bot edit that was fixing a redirect. The see also removal is less important, but would appear to be a valid link. Christopher Connor (talk) 18:28, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring at African American
You're a real piece of work. Your refusal to discuss the article is amazing. I'm going to report you for edit warring. Considering your last block was for a week, I wonder how long the next one will be. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:27, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * See WP:ANEW. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:39, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * If you think I'm edit warring, by all means file a complaint. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:07, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Please stop lying in your edit summaries. When four editors agree, that's often regarded as consensus. I tried to discuss the lede with you on the Talk page, but you refused. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:13, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Agree as above, you're clearly still edit warring here against consensus. Please stop. Dayewalker (talk) 04:21, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Sockpuppet investigations/Therock40756 for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 05:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked from editing for a period of One Month for Disruptive Editing. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  F ASTILY  (TALK) 08:10, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * It's a little early to be requesting an unblock of a socking account. Please have a read of WP:OFFER for ways to gain community trust - note the section about contributing to other WMF projects during the block time (e.g. Simple Wikipedia or if you speak any other language, one of the other Wikipedias) - or you can do nothing and then ask for the 2nd chance, but that may well be more difficult to accomplish.  Ron h jones (Talk) 19:11, 18 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Could you please specify:

Thanks, Seraphimblade Talk to me 08:40, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Whether you took the advice above to edit constructively on other WMF projects, and if so, where, and what account you had there?
 * What areas you intend to edit in, and what improvements you can make?
 * What you understand about why you were blocked, and what your plan is to do differently in the future?