User talk:Thomasfan1916
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 17:08, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
Nomination of Kirk Perron for deletion
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February 2026
Your edit to Ward Body Works has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:08, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
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)
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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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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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