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Happy editing! Cheers, Dave (talk) 16:47, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox junction list

As documented at WP:USRD/STDS#Major intersections, we do not allow more than 10 junctions in the infobox. This is based on feedback from the WP:FAC process about 15 or so years ago and in keeping with the principles that the infobox should be a succinct summary. Imzadi 1979 → 15:31, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding an 11th junction to the infobox on Interstate 287. We're serious that this is a hard limit. Imzadi 1979 → 15:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of My test page that is useless

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Speedy deletion of Ngce

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December 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to introduce inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. If you need guidance on how to create appropriate pages, try using the Article Wizard. 2A01:4C8:A0:75C2:D883:E9C8:B89B:E2FE (talk) 18:51, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of How To Play Top Trumps

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The Night Watch (talk) 21:11, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there Ethan,

I have tagged your page for deletion because Wikipedia is not an instruction manual or guidebook, and this article appears to be an instructions on how to play the card game Top Trumps. Please keep in mind the policy regarding what Wikipedia is not when creating pages in the future. If you have any questions, please do ask me. Thank you, The Night Watch (talk) 21:18, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, How To Play Top Trumps

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Speedy deletion nomination of Weird Streets In New York

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Hughesdarren (talk) 01:26, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, How Are New York State Routes Numbered?

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, How Are New York State Routes Numbered?. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – List_of_state_routes_in_New_York. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at List_of_state_routes_in_New_York. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Adirondack Northway

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, The Adirondack Northway, was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other test edits you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

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Please stop creating new articles or making major changes to articles like state highway. I think you're trying to run before you've learned to walk around here. You either need to slow down and learn the ways of things here, or you'll be asked at a some point to leave. Imzadi 1979 → 16:41, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

State highway issues

Regarding this set of edits:

We don't put a heading before the WP:LEAD of an article.
1. Headings are supposed to be rendered in sentence case per MOS:HEAD, and they should also be concise.
Canada does not have 11 provinces.
The various states in the US use a number of different naming and abbreviation conventions, which are documented at WP:USSH. Some use a two-letter postal abbreviation, and many do not.
New York's state route marker is a version of the shape of the shield on the state's coat of arms, not a "wave".
California's state route marker is based on a miner's spade, referencing the gold rush in 1849.
Utah's state route marker is a beehive shape. The beehive is an important symbol to the Mormon settlers of the state.

In short, you don't know what you're talking about. Adding content like this to articles is on the borderline of vandalism. Consider yourself warned not to do this in the future. Imzadi 1979 → 17:00, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is just what it looks like, maybe not what it actually is. Ethan369 (talk) 21:23, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ethan369 (talk) 21:25, 26 December 2022 (UTC) is not at fault.[reply]

Your reply doesn't make much sense to me. Can you try again? Imzadi 1979 → 23:41, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page

A talk page is there for others to communicate with you. You cannot tell them to not edit it. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:13, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just don't want people to delete my edits or add mean comments. Ethan369 (talk) 18:40, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's a different matter, and you can simply revert them if their edits are against policy. Drmies (talk) 20:53, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So you are telling me that I can revert their edits? Ethan369 (talk) 21:24, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If their edits are against policy. You have control over your own talk page, to some extent--but telling people, as you did, that they are not allowed to edit your talk page, that's ridiculous and completely contrary to what we do here. And, for instance, you may have wanted me to put my response below that weird line you drew, but I'm not going to do that. Drmies (talk) 22:07, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(Ethan369 (talk) 21:28, 26 December 2022 (UTC))[reply]

You may want to take a look through Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Getting fancy with extra headings, incorrect heading levels and such doesn't help things. We don't ordinarily use L1 headings in pages. These headings with just a single equal sign at each end are reserved for the page titles that are automatically generated by the server, and we would use L2 headings to start new talk page sections. Imzadi 1979 → 18:45, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your addition at Talk:Interstate 82#New Section: Why is I-82 named that?, you shouldn't have signed your posting at the beginning. Signatures go at the end of the posting. Now the reply link is in the wrong place, and editors using it will reply to your hello statement and nd the rest of your posting. Imzadi 1979 → 18:47, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Links

Regarding this edit, I've also noticed that you don't know how to properly wikilink things, and you only use external links. To properly wikilink a work, just enclose it in double square brackets, like [[Interstate 81]] to get Interstate 81. If you would like to alter thee displayed text, use a pipe character like: [[Interstate 81|I-81]] to get I-81. (Piping doesn't work on external links with single brackets; you must separate the content of the link from the displayed text with a space.) We also link the words already in a sentence instead of appending them in parentheses. Imzadi 1979 → 02:58, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

January 2023

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