User talk:Walthery

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Walthery, good luck, and have fun. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 22:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Please don't use obfuscated urls.
Please don't use shortened obfuscated URLs, as you did here.

When I added a new reference I also thought I would fix the bare-url someone left to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/nyregion/ming-tiger-harlem-dies.html

I searched to see if that url had been used elsewhere. It hadn't. Only after I made my edit did I see you had already added that article, but using a counter-policy shortened and obfuscated url. The wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Please try to edit in a way that doesn't waste other people's time. Your use here cost me about fifteen minutes, if I count this heads-up.

The most important reason not to use obfuscated urls is that bad faith vandals could use them to hide links to malware sites. Geo Swan (talk) 20:16, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

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