User talk:Vintagesounds1991

September 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Baby Phat has been reverted. Your edit here to Baby Phat was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/43682/1/baby-phat-cult-00s-y2k-fashion-label-hip-hop-kimora-lee-simmons-lil-kim-aaliyah) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 18:48, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

October 2020
Hello, I'm Toddy1. An edit that you recently made to Sun Country PGA Championship changed information from something the cited source supported, to something the cited source contradicted. Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources, not on editor whims, so your edit has been reverted. -- Toddy1 (talk) 20:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Toddy1. An edit that you recently made to Bari Siddiqui suggests that you lack competence in English. You made changes to the meaning, though your edit summary suggested that you did not intend to. Competence is required -- Toddy1 (talk) 20:18, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Please see pages 169-170 of "The Complete Plain Words" by Sir Ernest Gowers, revised by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut, pub HMSO 1986 and Penguin, 1987. This explains:
 * if you are giving only a partial quotation or merely citing expressions as examples, put the full stop outside, as in this sentence... There must be hyphens in the 'balance-of-payments difficulties' but not in 'the difficulties are over the balance of payments'.

The same rule also applies to commas. -- Toddy1 (talk) 21:01, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Vintagesounds1991! Your additions to Butter Braid have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:04, 6 January 2021 (UTC)