User talk:Blackshod

Your recent editing history at 47th Regiment Royal Artillery shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Dormskirk (talk) 10:53, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Royal Artillery regiments

Hi - I notice that you have moved a couple of Royal Artillery Regiments. This has been discussed before. The general principle on wikipedia is that we use ordinals for military units. e.g. 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment rather than 3 PARA. If you look at List of regiments of the Royal Artillery (1938–1947) you will see that some work was undertaken some time ago to put all artillery regiments titles on a consistent basis (thereby including the ordinals). There are 971 Royal Artillery Regiments on wikipedia, almost all of which are currently standardised at ordinals. In practice the tradition in the Royal Artillery is not to use ordinals although practice varies e.g. 2nd Field Regiment RA whereas the tradition in the Royal Horse Artillery is to include them. A further complication is that some regiments have moved from horse artillery regiments to field regiments and vice versa. Wikipedia employs its own conventions to ensure consistency with other countries etc. This needs further discussion and was discussed in the past (see Talk:101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery#Undiscussed article move). At that time there was no consensus to move nearly 1,000 articles. Dormskirk (talk) 10:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Aldro School moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Aldro School, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. PRAXIDICAE💕 17:34, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Aldro moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Aldro, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:35, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

London Guards

Please stop making unexplained edits to London Guards. See WP:EDITSUM, and especially WP:REVEXP. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:50, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

You are still making unexplained edits, and making unsourced changes. Please cite sources, and use edit summaries. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:01, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

In this edit[1], you finally provided an edit summary which begins Please stop reverting without reading.

That is a thoroughly obnoxious response. In your dozens of edits, you had provided no edit summary for me to read ... so telling me to read is a sort of bully's sick joke, 'cos there is nothing to read. As noted above, USE edit summaries ... especially when reverting.

The second part of your edit summary says London Regiment and London Guards deserve two entries as they are separate entities. If you want to split the articles, please discuss that on the article's talk page, and stop WP:EDITWARring. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:25, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

ANI discussion involving you

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Blackshod. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:09, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Final warning

Please read WP:Communication is required. The short version of this is simple: If you are doing things that others find fault with, either you stop it, or you discuss it. If you keep doing it, you will be blocked for disruptive editing. Wikipedia is a collaborative project, so really, communicating with others is expected. If you continue down this path of refusing to stop or discuss, expect to be blocked without any further warnings. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:31, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

@Dennis Brown: it appears that Blackshod did not resume editing until the day after the ANI, posted by BrownHairedGirl was archived, so it seems they were unable to participate. But as they have been active since then until yesterday, perhaps they will comment on some of the outstanding issues that editors are seeking a response on. Cheers - wolf 04:17, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

The communication issue predates the ANI, however, and the ANI just highlighted an ongoing, long time problem. If you want to edit here, you really have to communicate and work with others, at least sometimes. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 15:39, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

MOD Chicksands

Any thoughts on my message about the article name at Talk:MOD Chicksands? Thanks Thx811 (talk) 18:04, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Aldro (June 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Greenman was: 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 after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Aldro and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Aldro, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Greenman (talk) 10:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Blackshod! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Greenman (talk) 10:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Royal Engineers

Hello, and thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia, and in particular for adding references, as you did to Royal Engineers! However, you should know that adding a bare URL is not ideal, and exposes the reference to linkrot. It is preferable to use proper citation templates when citing sources. A bare URL is a URL cited as a reference for some information in an article without any accompanying information about the linked page. In other words, it is just URL copied and pasted into the Wiki text, inserted between <ref>...</ref> tags, without title, author, date, or any of the usual information necessary for a bibliographic citation. Here's an example of a full citation using the {{cite web}} template to cite a web page:

Lorem ipsum<ref>{{cite web |title=Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac |publisher=Canon Inc |work=Ask a Question |date=2022 |url=https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART174839 |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref> dolor sit amet.

which displays inline in the running text of the article as:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

and displays under References as:

1. ^ Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac". Ask a Question. Canon Inc. 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-02.

If you've already entered one or more bare urls to an article, there are tools available to expand them into full citations; try the reFill tool, which can resolve some bare references semi-automatically. Once again, thanks for adding references to articles, and to avoid future link rot, please consider supplementing your bare URLs—creating full, inline citations with title, author, date, publisher, etc. More information can be found at Wikipedia:Inline citations. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 12:58, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Queen's Gallantry Medal

Your reversion of the Queen's Gallantry Medal from the King's Gallantry Medal resulted in all of my changes re the QGM being reverted too. Why would you do that? I intend to redo those changes, albeit leaving the medal as (correctly) titled the QGM. If you disagree with any of them use the talk page. Nick Metcalfe (talk) 23:17, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Aldro School

Hello, Blackshod. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Aldro School, 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) 07:01, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

London Guards

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Dormskirk (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Aldro

Hello, Blackshod. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Aldro, 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) 11:04, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

London Guards

I am not sure why you want to keep adding "company (-)" behind "G (Messines) Company, Scots Guards (formerly A (London Scottish) Company)". Please use edit summaries to explain what you are trying to show. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 21:54, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Aldro School

Hello, Blackshod. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Aldro School".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:46, 12 December 2022 (UTC)