User talk:John D Clark 5678
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Welcome John D Clark 5678!
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Sincerely, Md Maruf Parvez (talk) 10:41, 17 June 2020 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Md Maruf Parvez (talk) 10:41, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
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Reformulated:
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If[1] you are here to promote pseudoscience, extremism, fundamentalism or conspiracy theories, we're not interested in what you have to say. Tgeorgescu (talk) 31 August 2020 20:18:09 (UTC)
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- ^ I'm not saying that you do, but if...
December 2021
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Hello, I'm Grand'mere Eugene. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Mortimer J. Buckley have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. A reliable source is required for facts presented on Wikipedia. The source for the statement you edited says his father was from an Irish immigrant family, with no mention of his being Jewish. Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 20:11, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- Your contribution history includes more than a dozen biographical entries where you have added unreferenced material relating to the subject's heritage. Please stop adding such content without citing a reliable source. Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 22:38, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
January 2022
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- TNT (talk • she/her) 06:55, 2 January 2022 (UTC)May 2022
[edit] Hello, I'm Grand'mere Eugene. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Mortimer J. Buckley, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 14:48, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Sandy Lerner, you may be blocked from editing. Please stop adding material to biographies that is not properly referenced. Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 10:34, 14 May 2022 (UTC)