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You have shown interest in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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@NinjaRobotPirate:Is there a list of "more stringent set of rules". There is Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/India-Pakistan#Principles, but it is quite similar to other wikipedia policies.Bless sins (talk) 18:14, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

By default, any articles about an India-Pakistan conflict are under extended confirmed protection (see this discussion). Beyond that, individual pages can have specific restrictions, such as 1RR, but this is always advised in an edit notice when editing the page. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:28, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

I am reminding you once again that you are editing The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, a topic covered by discretionary sanctions. Edit warring and stone walling on the talk page do not bode well. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 18:55, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Pakistan claim

Sir can you pls put pakiistan claim on 2019 balakot airstrike page . 67.171.90.94 (talk) 06:18, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

ITN

On 28 February 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2019 India–Pakistan standoff, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:10, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Please stop Overciting articles

Please read WP:OVERCITE and WP:PRIMARY, only add reliable third party sources and do not add to many sources. Infobox generally dont need sources. The refs for content in infobox should be added in the article to support the same content in the article body. Please let me know if you have any questions. --DBigXrayᗙ 12:05, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

What exactly are you referring to?Bless sins (talk) 15:35, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Your recent editing history at Balakot 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 BRD 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.

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Are you saying that you have not made any reverts?Bless sins (talk) 05:42, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

• #India,_Pakistan,_and_Afghanistan_discretionary_sanctions, I see that you have already been notified. So you may be subjected to WP:AC/DS should you choose to continue this disruptive behavior. --DBigXrayᗙ 05:49, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: Can you please comment about the discretionary sanctions with respect to the above message? For example, extended-confirmed protection doesn't apply to and editor like me (I am older than 30 days and have made more than 50 edits). So what additional sanctions would apply in this because beyond the usual Wikipedia policies.Bless sins (talk) 05:54, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

It's all in WP:AC/DS. The biggest thing is that admins can topic ban people who edit disruptively. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: How can I seek dispute resolution in this case? Is it still the usual Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard, or are there any methods special to the India-Pakistan domain? How do you advise proceeding in this case? Bless sins (talk) 06:03, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Anything in WP:DR – there's nothing special about the dispute resolution methods. WP:NPOVN might help if you think there are issues of undue weight. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:20, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Citation format

Please could you add citations in the correct format or at least with a few more details in a similar way to other citations on the page? I am referring to your edit here on 2019 India–Pakistan standoff. Thanks. DiplomatTesterMan (talk) 22:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

@DiplomatTesterMan: that can be done. Is there a tool that can automate this task?Bless sins (talk) 02:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

What about this[1]?Bless sins (talk) 02:36, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Seems ok. Y There are tools which Wikipedia does provide for this such as ProveIt and Citation expander which can be added through the preferences section. But many users still prefer to do it manually. DiplomatTesterMan (talk) 10:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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edit warring

Thanks for your help re the edit war. Could you impartially consider whether the individual in question should be reported. They keep deleting my comments on their talk page pleading with them to stop deleting my contributions. Cheers Mozzie (talk) 16:03, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Your recent editing history at Balakot 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 BRD 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.

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This is another warning. Please explain on the talk page what has been here for weeks ? you are simply censoring reliably sourced content with misleading edit summaries DBigXrayᗙ 17:41, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Please stop putting the edit war template on my talk page, especially when you are involved in the edit war yourself. I'm kindly requesting you never to use that template here again.

I have made several comments on the talk page yet each time have received no response from you. See this section: Talk:Balakot#Unintentional_removal_of_content?.Bless sins (talk) 17:44, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Specifically, please read this policy, Wikipedia:Edit_warring#What_to_do_if_you_see_edit-warring_behavior:

Avoid posting a generic warning template if you are actively involved in the edit war yourself; it can be seen as aggressive.

You are doing exactly that. Please never do that on my talk page again.Bless sins (talk) 17:52, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Hello, Bless sins. You have new messages at Talk:Citizenship_(Amendment)_Act,_2019#Background.
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Hi Bless, thanks for your work. We have made some progress and MSW has shared some proposed version(s). I will review it and respond. It will be helpful if you also review that content and share your concerns if any so that we may work towards Consensus and get this resolved. regards. Happy Holidays! ᗙ DBigXrayᗙ 15:24, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

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GA of Cologne Central Mosque

Hi Bless sins, I have read the GA review of the mosque and it was approved as a GA in 2008, when the mosque was just a project and not built yet. The mosque was opened in 2017 and inaugurated in 2018. At least the latter was a major event for the mosque. I was inclined to list the article for a GA reassessment but there I saw I should ask the main contributor for advice. I'd be relieved if you could update the article a bit.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 01:45, 7 February 2023 (UTC)