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Please take a moment to read this information which deals with how Macedonia related articles are named on Misplaced Pages. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 17:25, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Eastern Orthodox Church shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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— Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 19:35, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).Macedonia (Listeni/ˌmæsɨˈdoʊniə/; Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía, ) is a geographic and historical region of Greece in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region, dominated by mountains in the interior and the port cities of Thessaloniki (or Salonika) and Kavala on its southern coastline. Macedonia is part of Northern Greece, together with Thrace and sometimes Thessaly and Epirus.

It incorporates most of the territories of ancient Macedon, a kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II. The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine Empires with widely differing borders (see Macedonia (region) for details). Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). Arter01 (talk) 21:50, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

You are certainly free to disagree with the current Misplaced Pages policy on this topic, and/or with the reasoning and discussion which led to this policy. And if a broad consensus should develop at some future time for the current policy to be changed, then it can/will change. However, you are not free to defy the current policy and try to force the text of any article to read differently than the policy says it should. Even if you believe Misplaced Pages's current standards for referring to the Republic of Macedonia are wrongheaded and nonsensical, you need to respect and follow those standards when editing Misplaced Pages articles, or else you will not be welcome to continue editing here. — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 01:24, 1 June 2014 (UTC)