User talk:R2d212345
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[edit]Hello, R2d212345, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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A summary of some important site policies and guidelines
[edit]- "Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
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Also, make sure your edit summaries actually have something to do with your edits. For example, this edit was not fixing a typo. That your edit summary said "fixed typo" indicates that you need to read Typographical error (that is what "typo" means) or else need to read our policy on censorship and start editing honestly. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:21, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
Seriously, stop lying in your edit summaries
[edit]Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:25, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
- This edit did not fix a misspelled word. This edit was not simply rearranging or rephrasing the sentence, but introducing criticism into the wrong part of the article. In case you did not know, a synopsis is a summary of a work's contents -- not the place to discuss other people's evaluation of it.
- Then there's this edit, where instead of fixing awkward wording you simply added your own bias on the topic; and this edit, where you again claimed to be fixing the sentence structure but instead of rearranging or rephrasing you stuck in an undeniable biased statement.
- Pretty much all of your edit summaries have been lies. Last time I checked, Islam does not encourage lying. If you keep lying in your edit summaries, I will have to assume that you are not here to help the site. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:30, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
SPI notification
[edit]You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then, if you wish to do so, respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/R2d212345. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:02, 30 August 2017 (UTC)