User talk:Phlpstewart

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Jean-Jacques Rousseau, have removed content without a good reason to do so. Content on Wikipedia should not be removed just because you disagree with it or because you think it's wrong, unless the claim is not verifiable. Instead, you should consider expanding the article with noteworthy and verifiable information of your own, citing reliable sources when you do so. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Sam Sailor 21:40, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on expanding Persian Letters! Christopher Parham (talk) 12:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Françoise-Louise de Warens. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Care to use preview instead of thinking you got it right? Sam Sailor 13:58, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Correction of small errors is not vandalism. I have been a contributor to Wikipedia for years and do not engage in petty disputes, but I have lots of editorial experience and hate carelessness, useless references, and misspellings. You are leaping to unwarranted conclusions about my purposes and abilities. Phlpstewart (talk) 19:53, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You are completely wrong about current best usage regarding hyphenated given names. In the past, many historians thought it was obligatory to link several given names that the person in fact never used (except on contracts). Today they are dropped by good scholars except in the case of names like Jean-Jacques that really double names and are never divided. Phlpstewart (talk) 19:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]