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Philippines article

Hi. I saw these recent edits you made to the Philippines article. The insertion of "(Republic of China)" as clarification for "Taiwan" bothered me a bit, for two reasons: (1) the thrust here is geographic, not political, and (2) if that clarification is made, it seems to me that it ought to be balanced by a clarification of "Mainland China" as "(PRC)". This didn't bother me enough to make me revert that part of the edits and I couldn't quickly identify what improvement I would make, so I left it the way you edited it. I think it needs tweaking, but I don't know offhand how it ought to be tweaked so I'm just mentioning my concern to you here. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:08, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 2021

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extednded protection

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Please stop

Please stop adding edit request templates to talk pages as you did at Talk:Caracas. It makes no sense to add them if you aren't making any request, and it makes no sense to add them with the "answered" parameter already set to "yes". In addition, if you want to discuss something on a talk page, you can just add the discussion directly, with a heading, you don't need to use the template. That template is only if you have a specific request in the form "Please change X to Y". See Help:Talk pages for more information. Largoplazo (talk) 11:29, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Please stop adding edit request templates to talk pages as you did at Talk:Caracas. It makes no sense to add them if you aren't making any request, and it makes no sense to add them with the "answered" parameter already set to "yes". In addition, if you want to discuss something on a talk page, you can just add the discussion directly, with a heading, you don't need to use the template. That template is only if you have a specific request in the form "Please change X to Y". See Help:Talk pages for more information."

I think that it's really nonsense for me, not the thing you defined.

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November 2021

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Why?

Ask us why I did?

Overlinking

Please note that we do not link to common understood English words, terms and countries. For instance we wouldn't link to Germany, or other well known countries. See WP:OVERLINK for more details. Canterbury Tail talk 12:40, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maritime boundaries

Please note that a country's exclusive economic zone typically extends beyond its territorial sovereignty. These "maritime boundaries" you keep adding to articles are, at most, boundaries between the countries' respective EEZs, areas of international waters within which they are granted special privileges, not between the countries themselves. Spain and Italy, for example, do not border Algeria. Per International waters#territorial sea claim, Spain and Algeria claim territorial waters only 12 nautical miles out, and Italy only 13. See the first map at this page. Largoplazo (talk) 19:56, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

False information

I'm afraid you're now going behind overlinking and misunderstanding national boundaries, and you've ventured into the terrain of supplying information that's plain false. The article on Bangladesh already correctly stated the nature of the gap between Bangladesh and its near neighbors Nepal, Bhutan, and China. Your changes were incorrect. Also, you added "mountainous" to the description of Turkmenistan. but the elevation of the vast majority of the country is under 400 meters.

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December 2021

Please stop making test edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Mogadishu. It is considered vandalism, which, under Wikipedia policy, can lead to being blocked from editing. If you would like to experiment again, please use your sandbox. Your similar edits also damaged Phnom Penh and Bangkok. Largoplazo (talk) 12:51, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Israel talk page

You were already asked once here, to "Please stop adding edit request templates to talk pages as you did at Talk:Caracas. It makes no sense to add them if you aren't making any request, and it makes no sense to add them with the "answered" parameter already set to "yes"" Selfstudier (talk) 15:59, 17 January 2022 (UTC) Selfstudier (talk) 16:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article talk pages

Exist solely for the purpose of discussing the article. Not the subject of the article and certainly not comments about what you are doing. Please stop. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 16:19, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

Please do not erroneously add protection icons to a page as you did on Irish people. Adding the icon does not protect the page, and you account does not have the access to be able to protect a page. So please do not add such things as you're only creating work for others to remove it again. Canterbury Tail talk 13:18, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Same goes for your changing the protection template on North Korea, which did not seem to be a correction. --Lord Belbury (talk) 13:33, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking and disruption

Again I must ask you to please stop WP:OVERLINKing articles. The constant overlinking, the altering of what countries border other countries (of which a good portion are reverted), the edit requests and your messing around with protection templates are starting to verge on disruptive editing. Canterbury Tail talk 13:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Re-Creates Google Bard article on Wikipedia

Google Bard link to Wikiepiedia. ImChessFan21 (talk) 13:16, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Friendship

Hello, ImChessFan21,

Why did you move this long-standing article to an unrelated Draft page? It doesn't make any sense at all. Please do not do any more impulsive page moves, especially to core articles. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:22, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK. ImChessFan21 (talk) 06:18, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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