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Thanks for your contributions to List of engagements during the Second Boer War. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 14:03, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I understand, I will be doing my research on the subject in due time. Thank you for the concern and the action of putting the article as a draft, as I understand an article without citations is very risky to have.

Thank you for the advisory, I will publish once I have gathered more than adequate evidence to support it.

- Pvt. Ryan PrivateRyan44 (talk) 22:58, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for contributing to the article Coldstream Guards. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 00:36, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Yang Youlin. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Amigao (talk) 01:22, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Yang Youlin, 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. Amigao (talk) 01:23, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Axad12 (talk) 09:05, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, PrivateRyan44. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Hello, PrivateRyan44. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:List of engagements during the Second Boer War, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 15:07, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi PrivateRyan44. Thank you for your work on Northern Natal Offensive. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nice work

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North8000 (talk) 04:02, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

The article Yang Youlin you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Yang Youlin for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Fidodog14 -- Fidodog14 (talk) 12:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Earlier today you added content to this article which included the sfn cite {{sfn|Trew|Badsey|2004|p=64}}. This cite has no complete reference to anchor to, to target within the article. From my research I assume it's the Simone Trew/Stephen Badsey book as seen here:
* {{cite book |first1=Simon |last1=Trew |last2=Badsey |first2=Stephen |series=Battle Zone Normandy |title=Battle for Caen |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7509-3010-9}}
Please add the complete reference to the article because as it stands now Ref #1 is throwing a sfn error/Harv cite error and presently the article is in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. See User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors for an explanation of the script that enables seeing Harv errors. - Shearonink (talk) 14:18, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

My apologies; I took a look at it and fixed it - article seems to be working fine now. PrivateRyan44 (talk) 01:39, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! - Shearonink (talk) 01:47, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, PrivateRyan44

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Cardboard Moose, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I've proposed an article that you started, Words on Fire, for deletion because it meets one or more of our deletion criteria, and I don't think that it is suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. The particular issue can be found in the notice that is now visible at the top of the article.

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🫎 moose 💬 20:42, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Cardboard Moose:

Your deletion notice is duly noted, and your reason for doing so is valid; I had wanted to make an entry related to this book, however noting the lack of reliable sources, combined with the fact that the ones I could find have vested interests, I understand your reasons for deletion of the article. Thanks for making me aware that this article was unsuitable for Wikipedia.

Sincerely,

Ryan PrivateRyan44 (talk) 21:09, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Ryan. Thank you for creating this article about a children's novel. I've added sources to the article to demonstrate the book's notability under Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria and Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline. Cunard (talk) 08:25, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

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Correction: nominations are open until 23:59 (UTC) on 14 December 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

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