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Southern Baptist State Conventions

Could you please help me Storm Rider? http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Malik_Shabazz Milik (and a few others) at this address does not see the Baptist state conventions as notable. Would you be able to help me document these conventions. They are all a part of the Southern Baptist Convention. Having comprehensive coverage of the largest evangelical denomination in the world would be helpful to many. I named the doctrinal standard of the conventions as well as the entities they own and operate. As an SBC pastor I can assure you this is important and valuable information. I sincerely believe the conventions qualify as notable because they are a part of the SBC. Also, I linked each convention web site which verifies the bulk of information I contributed. In addition, I called each state convention to verify the number of churches in each state. Any help you could render would be most helpful. Thank you. Tim —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toverton28 (talk • contribs) 04:32, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

A somewhat weird welcome

Hi there:

I see that you've been editing Misplaced Pages for about three days now. It appears that you've run afoul of the local customs. Let me explain the immediate issue with Early Republican Party (United States).

The first problem is that your article was created as a cut-and-paste of an existing article. This is frowned upon, to say the least, for the reasons given in the wikilink.

Now, luckily, the cut-and-paste was caught almost immediately, before any new content was added to the article. As such, there's no need to mark the page with a merge, and it can be simply deleted, which is what Septentrionalis is trying to do.

Now, because deletion is such a powerful function, the Powers that Be have created a policy surrounding deletions. First, they disallow ordinary editors from performing deletions, saving that ability for special editors called administrators who are supposed to (a) understand these policies and (b) are trusted to carry them out. Then they require that editors go through a special procedure to have a page deleted, to ensure that everybody affected has a chance to discuss the proposed deletion and make sure that the page truly ought to be deleted. This procedure requires that a notice of the proposed deletion be posted on the article page, so that people are aware of the discussion. You are allowed to go to the discussion page and put your two cents in, but you are not allowed to simply delete the notice.

I'll be watching your talk page for a few days. Please respond here, if you wish to respond.

— DLJessup (talk) 13:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

List of political parties in the United States

Hello. Before making potentially controversial edits, such as those you made to List of political parties in the United States, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Also, make sure to use an informative edit summary for such edits. Otherwise, people might consider your edits to be vandalism. Thank you. -David Schaich /_Cont 17:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

3RR on Republican Party (United States)

Hi! Even though I think I mostly agree with you politically, your edits to Republican Party (United States) don't seem to be adding anything useful, and you're breaking Misplaced Pages style conventions by removing the subheadings I put in. Also, your continual rapid reverts , , look an awful lot like a violation of the Three-Revert Rule. Please discuss on the talk page before making further reverts to the page. Argyriou 17:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

User notice: temporary 3RR block

Regarding reversions made on October 5 2006 to Republican Party (United States)

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future.

Re your mail. The best way to avoid being blocked is to remember the defn of rv (which does not mean a full rv) and WP:1RR. Use the talk page instead of reverting William M. Connolley 12:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverting your edits to Lyme Disease

Welcome to the Lyme Disease article. You recently made several edits without including any edit summaries. The Misplaced Pages guideline is that editors should usually write an edit summary on every edit to explain briefly why the edit is being made. It also helps other editors to understand the edit.

In your second edit you added unsupported assertions regarding minimum attachment durations that another editor deleted in August 2007. Unsupported assertions may be removed from Misplaced Pages. If you have a reliable source that supports the assertions, please cite it. See WP:RS for guidance on what counts as a reliable source. The reference citation you added is broken because it uses an incorrect format, and I couldn't fix it because it is not clear which reference you were trying to cite. Please see Help:Footnotes and Misplaced Pages:Citation templates for information on how to cite references in Misplaced Pages articles.

I am reverting your third edit because there is no evidence that A. americanum is another possible vector. Even the internal link to Amblyomma americanum which you added says, "numerous vector competancy tests have demonstrated that this tick is extremely unlikely to be capable of transmitting Lyme disease."

I am also reverting your fourth edit because it appears to contain original research regarding the itchiness of a bite.

I am restoring the original order of paragraphs under Transmission. It is logical to start with an explanation of what are the transmission vectors. Also, splitting the sentence that began "In North America" into two sentences in separate paragraphs makes an ambiguous second sentence because it is not clear which "west coast" in which continent is being referenced. The naming convention in this article has also been to use the bacterial species name before the common name(s). It is clearer and less ambiguous that way round.

Lyme Disease is a complicated and controversial subject. The article has benefited from a lot of careful work by many different editors over several years; it achieved Misplaced Pages Good Article status in Feb 2007. You are welcome to discuss your ideas for improving the article on its talk page. If you want to experiment with edits, please use the sandbox instead. - Neparis 17:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

April 2009

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Rugby Soccer, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. ShakingSpirit 12:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Republican Party

Sry, usually I'm careful about that. However, I did indeed feel that it should be kept Center-Right for now rather than Right-Wing. Soxwon (talk) 18:47, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Southwest Airlines article

Hi! That Las Vegas 737 picture is making the display of the article strange on my computer when it is justified to the left. We should make the display look normal, so I am moving the 737 picture to justify to the right. Please keep it that way. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 04:31, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Christian denomination infoboxes

Hello. I've noticed that you have been making changes to the infoboxes for Christian denominations. I'm particularly puzzled over why for "Classification" you are replacing Protestant for Christian when the infobox is explicitly for Christian denominations? This makes no sense to me. Also, I'm not sure of the need to change the names of the categories. Thanks. Ltwin (talk) 02:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Allegiant Air

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Misplaced Pages is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Misplaced Pages uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. HkCaGu (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bill Hiltz

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A barnstar for you!

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	Congratulations, Nikpapag, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Misplaced Pages! Thank you for improving and expanding articles on aviation, U.S. politics, and other topics, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. Keep up the good work! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 18:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

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February 2013

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Nook Simple Touch. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware, Misplaced Pages's policy on edit warring states:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. SudoGhost 23:51, 14 February 2013 (UTC)