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Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. brewcrewer (yada, yada) 15:33, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your contributions. You edited one part of the article to say that Fitna means "test of faith in times of trial or situation", but that doesn't make sense to me ("times of situation"?). Did you mean to describe it as "test of faith in times of trial, or sedition" as Wikipedia describes it? --BurritoBazooka If you reply here, please add {{ping|BurritoBazooka}} to your message 00:15, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To: {{ping|BurritoBazooka}}

Hope I pinged you right. Fitna means "one's faith is being tested" (for example, if they have to urge to cheat on a test, their faith is being tested to see if they are loyal enough not too).

Sometimes fitna is used in terms that "to resist a force trying to break their religion (e.g. someone forcing or peer pressuring you to lie/steal)"

I see you did alot of edits to my corrections which I can understand, I just needed to change the definition because the wiki article stated an incorrect definition which I assumed was Gert Wilders definition of Fitna (which shows is incorrect)

Okay, thanks. It looks like Wikipedia's Visual Editor has trouble with the {{ping}} template, but that is okay. I'll edit the article and then you can look and see if you agree with my edit. --BurritoBazooka If you reply here, please add {{ping|BurritoBazooka}} to your message 01:01, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I think the actual problem with that {{ping}} is that you copied the source code which includes the <nowiki></nowiki> tags, intended to make the template code display in the rendered version of the page. --BurritoBazooka If you reply here, please add {{ping|BurritoBazooka}} to your message 01:08, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. The claim about Twitter accounts not being associated with ISIS is unreferenced and seems to be original research. Quasar G ^{t - c} 16:03, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Quasar G ^{t - c} 16:39, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Winsocker. I saw your edit summary on the use of "however". I thought you might be interested in this discussion, and the references cited there. "However" is an overused word on Wikipedia, so it is best to use it sparingly, and where the contradiction is clear from the text, it is not needed. Best wishes, Kablammo (talk) 00:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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You edited again I/P article [[1]] please don't I will ask admin help if you will edit again.--Shrike (talk) 12:07, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please listen to what Shrike says here. You will be lucky if you are not blocked for you latest edits. Seriously, learn the rules, and wait until you have at least 500 edits outside the IP area before you edit pages regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict. If you have edits you think are urgent, then take that up on the talk page of the relevant article. Huldra (talk) 23:56, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: your name came up on my watch list, when you edited UN Watch. That article is clearly under ARBPIA, it even has an ARBPIA notice on the talk page. Remember, the ARBPIA notice says: "All articles related to the Arab–Israeli conflict, broadly construed". And broadly seriously means broadly: if anyone say it is under ARBPIA, then it most probably is, Huldra (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Allow me to chime in here, you are on the path of being blocked. You have gotten enough warnings and time to stop editing in this area. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 04:57, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Are violating WP:MOSFLAG (by adding country flags in the infobox) and/or WP:OVERLINK (by linking to country names). Please stop. GiantSnowman 15:59, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, okay. Will do Winsocker (talk) 16:00, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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