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November 2023

Hello Jadmeliora! Your additions to David Zaslav 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 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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Hello, I'm AntiDionysius. I noticed that you recently removed content from List of Boston University people without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:42, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jadmeliora! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. yvanyblog^(talk) 04:29, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of Boston University people

Please only add people with Wikipedia articles. Please create articles for them if they meet wp:notability (people). See wp:Articles for Creation. Thank you Adakiko (talk) 11:06, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of Boston University people. Your edits continue to appear to constitute vandalism and have been automatically reverted.

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The following is the log entry regarding this warning: List of Boston University people was changed by Jadmeliora (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.872997 on 2023-11-13T05:50:40+00:00

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 05:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please don't add external links to the body of articles

Hello, I'm ElKevbo. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of an article. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 19:10, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see this all the time on pages for long running institutions that do not have wikipedia pages, especially for educational institutions. Jadmeliora (talk) 04:01, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Alexandra Cooper, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Newtown, Pennsylvania.

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2023 Conflict of interest notice with Boston University

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GuardianH (talk) 23:31, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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