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Hi Afdshah! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! Sean.hoyland (talk) 07:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction to contentious topics

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You have recently edited a page related to the Arab–Israeli conflict, a topic designated as contentious. This is a brief introduction to contentious topics and does not imply that there are any issues with your editing.

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Sean.hoyland (talk) 07:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Right now I'm just adding in missing information rather than editing existing info - I hope that's ok! Afdshah (talk) 07:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In order to add information to pages within the topic area you need to have the extendedconfirmed privilege (granted after 500 edits and an account age of 30 days). For the time being, until you are extendedconfirmed, you are limited to making edit requests on the article talk pages. See WP:EDITXY. Sean.hoyland (talk) 07:36, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The reason I notified you is because I noticed edits like this that includes language like 'when a terrorist' using Wikipedia's unattributed editorial voice. This is not normal practice in Wikipedia (see WP:TERRORIST) so it got my attention. Sean.hoyland (talk) 07:44, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I apologize - I was working on adding in the missing info and realize now that I used biased language. I'll work on fixing it all ASAP. Thank you for catching my error Afdshah (talk) 08:37, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I removed all instances of the word "terrorist" from the page. Afdshah (talk) 08:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I also removed all relevant instances of the word "terrorist" from the Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2003. Afdshah (talk) 08:59, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did you read and understand my statement above "For the time being, until you are extendedconfirmed, you are limited to making edit requests on the article talk pages"? If so, I'm interested in why you are continuing to edit the articles covered by the restriction? I'm not interested in reverting the additions, but I am interested in whether you are able to explain your reasoning? Sean.hoyland (talk) 10:40, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh - I thought you meant only talk pages related to the articles - not the articles themselves - I read you text quickly - my bad!
Is it ok if I continue but add only sources?
I'm just trying to fix these undeveloped pages. Afdshah (talk) 13:54, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! — Diannaa (talk) 22:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

May 2024

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Copyright problem icon Your edit to Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2001 has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Please stop copying from this source-- if you do this again, you will be blocked. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 21:26, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Arnon Zamora for deletion

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Fram (talk) 07:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024 Dahieh airstrike

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Please do not close discussions in which you are involved. Requested moves must be closed by an uninvolved editor. Your edits have been reverted. For further information, please see WP:RM/CI estar8806 (talk) 19:41, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - didn't realize Afdshah (talk) 19:43, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. We all make mistakes. :) estar8806 (talk) 19:44, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed right removed

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I have removed your extended-confirmed right for WP:GAMING, and for having made a significant number of edits in violation of WP:ECR. As an example, making ~35 edits to make these changes is clearly gaming your edit count. As you are no longer extended-confirmed the extended-confirmed arbitration sanction applies to you again, and you cannot make any edits related to the Arab/Israel conflict, broadly construed, except for constructive edit requests on article talk pages. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:21, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you continue to violate WP:ECR as you did here you will be blocked from editing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:14, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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