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File:Information.svg Hello, I'm DuncanHill. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to :Kunai have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Your edit, which you marked as "useless section" in fact removed the main source used in the article, and also removed the link to the Commons category. Please be more careful in future. DuncanHill (talk) 18:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

:Hello. Since i saw that the source was already listed in the 'References' section i thought the 'Sources' section was redundant. But the article was weirdly formatted in that the ref was not listed in the main body like most articles and was listed in a separate section so this caused my edit to break the article. I have now made it like a normal article and moved the ref to the lead AlexBobCharles (talk) 19:06, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

::You need to read WP:CITEVAR. You shouldn't go changing citation styles without getting consensus first. DuncanHill (talk) 19:09, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

....please read WP:NC-SHIPS. Llammakey (talk) 17:27, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

:Hello . I have read it and thank you for informing me since i am still learning AlexBobCharles (talk) 17:31, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

don't cherry pick your favorite party quotes Baratiiman (talk) 13:18, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

:My editing was not disruptive.

:Please read the sources that you yourself have cited if you are fluent in persian AlexBobCharles (talk) 13:21, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

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