User talk:Felimy
November 2024
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Welcome!
[edit]Hi Felimy! 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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I appreciate that the two notices I've left you may seem duplicative but the first alert I gave you is a required part of informing you about our contentious topics system when you are not already aware of it.
Also I've removed your comment here [1]. The first part is more of a rant, not something suitable for a talk page. Even being generous and taking it as commentary about a source and a suggestion we should limited its use, that isn't something you can do relating to the ArabâIsraeli conflict topic area until you are extended confirmed. Your last sentence could be interpreted as an edit request but precisely what you propose we say and where in the article is unclear. Frankly though I'm fairly sure anything you propose will be controversial and therefore isn't something that can be handled via an edit request and therefore isn't something you can deal with at this time.