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Happy editing! ~2026-14449-5 (talk) 01:59, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Brentwood Press

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February 2026

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Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Syntax–Brillian Corporation when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 06:28, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Stop editing with no WP:EDITSUMMARY! It is patently disruptive. I checked your last couple hundred edits and I see about two edit summaries ever. You did this one here which deleted paragraphs including sources, and falsely marked it as WP:MINOREDIT. You were just blocked for a wide array of wild behavior including noncommunication and whatnot, and you do no edit summaries and don't answer the several warnings on your Talk page. The first of which, copyright, is *extremely* obvious and serious. @Pppery: I saw your unblocking warning above. :-( — Smuckola(talk) 07:41, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

OK, I will not edit some of the articles (like removing paragraphs on Mac Tonight, which has a source) without an edit summary. Thomasfan1916 [built buses?] 08:13, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
No. I said never edit without an edit summary! I said that, because WP:EDITSUMMARY says that, and because I read it. Stop editing, read it, and read all policies and guidelines. There cannot be a reason to not always leave a meaningful edit summary. If it wasn't worth describing to your fellow editor to whom you're responsible, then it wasn't worth editing. This is patently disruptive because it's patently obvious. — Smuckola(talk) 08:37, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
Almost all of your edits since, about 100-200 of them, have had no WP:EDITSUMMARY. — Smuckola(talk) 07:10, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Brentwood Press (February 9)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Nighfidelity was:
This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:
Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
All but one of the sources (which is from a newspaper ad company) are by the organization itself.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit it after they have been resolved.
Nighfidelity (talk) 16:29, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
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Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Game & Watch when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:21, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for that. As per the edit summary I tagged you in, that param was missing from the unknown param check so it was triggering an error. You were correct, the param was valid. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:05, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

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Style note

Hi there! Quick note: per our style guide, "USA" should generally not be used as an abbreviation for "United States". For listing countries it probably makes most sense to spell it out, but you can also use "US". Nikkimaria (talk) 00:17, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Manufacturing location

Hi, you added a few manufacturing locations for ThinkPads and I was wondering if you do have a reference for this information. Is it just the sticker on the laptop case? PhotographyEdits (talk) 09:54, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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