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Happy editing! <!-- Template:Welcome--> [[User:JarrahTree|JarrahTree]] 01:38, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
:I have also noticed your contributions and I am very happy that you are here! I do encourage you that, when making significant changes such at [[Special:Diff/977354038|this]], you cite your sources. Wikipedia does not permit [[WP:OR|original research]] and [[WP:V|almost everything should be cited to a reliable source]]. ---&nbsp;[[User talk:Coffeeandcrumbs|<span style="color:blue;">C</span>]]&amp;[[Special:Contributions/Coffeeandcrumbs|<span style="color:#663366;">C</span>&nbsp;(]][[User:Coffeeandcrumbs|Coffeeandcrumbs]]) 16:26, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
:: Thanks for reminding me of this and not doing an instant revert. I'll make sure to add some sources soon. Regards [[User:Sapphironic|Sapphironic]] ([[User talk:Sapphironic#top|talk]]) 16:30, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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== Wikipedia and copyright ==
[[File:Control copyright icon.svg|30px|link=|alt=Control copyright icon]] Hello Sapphironic, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to [[:Japanese war crimes]] have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the [[public domain]] or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a [[WP:COMPLIC|suitably-free and compatible]] copyright license. (''To request such a release, see [[Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission]]''.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid [[copyright]] and [[plagiarism]] issues.

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== Edit summaries ==

{{{icon|[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon|link=]]}}} Hello. I noticed your recent edits to [[Easter Rising]] were not accompanied by any [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]]. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. As per the [[H:FIES|related page on editing norms]], it is generally considered good practice to fill in the edit summary field, as this helps others to understand the intention of your edits. Thanks. [[User:Guliolopez|Guliolopez]] ([[User talk:Guliolopez|talk]]) 08:45, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

== Edit summaries (v2) ==
Hello. Me again. I notice that you are still not using edit summaries. Could you start doing so please.

I also notice that you appear to be engaging in a [[WP:SPA|pattern of editing across multiple articles with a specific/common purpose]]. Namely to remove or temper references (across dozens of articles) which speak to Britain's imperial and colonial past. (Replacing terms like "[resistance to] British rule" (in the context of Ireland, North America, India, etc) with "[response to] British policy". Or terms like "British colonists" with "British settlers". Or just "settlers". Or ascribing actions to British individuals or agencies rather than to the British government or empire as a whole. Or that Britain didn't "take over" certain places, but that the former occupiers "ceded" them. And otherwise reframing Britain's role from the active to the passive. Etc.) Frankly, if you find that you not using edit summaries, because you are finding it difficult to rationally explain or justify these types of edits, then you might want to question whether they can be reasonably explained or justified in the first place. While editing with a goal of [[WP:NPOV|neutrality or balance]] is perhaps justifiable, editing with a goal of historical revisionism is significantly less so.

In short: If you are not using edit summaries, because you do not want to explain what you are doing (or why), then please consider whether you should be doing it in the first place.

Bye. [[User:Guliolopez|Guliolopez]] ([[User talk:Guliolopez|talk]]) 09:09, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

::'''Bump'''. Hello. I now see that you are using edit summaries. But, at best, the edit summaries that you are using are generic and non-descriptive. At worst, they could perhaps be considered misleading. Not everything is a "copyedit". You are clearly engaged in some kind of crusade, to re-position descriptions of Britain's historic/colonial actions in a different light. And describing every single one of those edits (under that campaign) as some form of benign "copyedit" is to misrepresent what you are doing. Specifically, the following are not what I would consider small copyedits:
::* Changing multiple of "British colonists" to "British settlers"
::* Relabeling Cecil Rhodes from "British imperialist" to "British businessman"
::* Recharacterising the Boston Tea Party, from an act of "[resistance to] British rule" to a "[response to] British policy"
::* Changing descriptions of people like William Grant Stairs from "Canadian-born British mercenary" to "Canadian mercenary"
::* Reframing colonial administrator Henry Morton Stanley from "British explorer" to "Welsh-American explorer"
::* Revising a description of reprisal killing of 100+ people in West Africa such that it is no longer attributed to "British troops" but to "colonial troops"
::* Reframing the actions of colonial powers such that they no longer "take possession of territory" but "assume control over territory"
::* And don't get me started on the revisionist changes you made, without valid explanation (and which [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Copenhagen&type=revision&diff=979392527&oldid=979262565 I have since reverted]) in relation to the use of phosphorus by the British fleet against civilian targets in Copenhagen.
::As before, if you cannot be upfront about what you are doing (and why), then you should consider whether you should be doing it. If you cannot make a valid argument for your changes (relative to the applicable policies) and have to "hide them" as mere "copyedits", then one would question whether you should be making them at all. Escalation next.
::Bye. [[User:Guliolopez|Guliolopez]] ([[User talk:Guliolopez|talk]]) 13:45, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

== Edit summaries (v3) ==

For the reasoning behind my revert of your edit to [[Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne]]
(wikilink tweaks is not even factual) please read Edit summaries (v2) above. It maybe helpful if you could explain your goal in these changes and why the pattern behind them. Thanks [[User:Edmund Patrick|Edmund Patrick]] &ndash;<small> [[User talk:Edmund Patrick|'''confer''']]</small> 07:05, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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