Skovl

A belated welcome!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Kj cheetham (talk) 13:01, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbas

A tag has been placed on 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This article was created as a direct copy of sections of Russo-Ukrainian War. Articles exist for Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and War in Donbas (2014–2022)‎. Falls to A10? Article created by non-ECP user. Wikipedia:General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian War apply.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Cinderella157 (talk) 01:53, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Your disruptive edits

Hello, Skovl,

DO NOT EVER DO MASS CHANGES ON WIKIPEDIA. You don't change all of the redirects to a highly visible article to point to an article that you, a two week old editor, just created today. Your article was tagged for deletion and when it was deleted, dozens and dozens and dozens of valid redirects were deleted because you had changed them all to point to your misguided new article. I just spent an hour restoring all of these redirects and rolling back the changes you made. Your behavior was terrible and was incredibly disruptive. If you do this again, I will indefinitely block you. I'm serious.

You are a brand new editor, work on improving your editing skills, do not create spin-off articles of high profile articles and then change all of the redirects to point to them. You do not have the knowledge or experience to edit like this. And even if you did have the experience, this was a drastic change like this would need to be discussed first on the main article talk page before pursuing. I have a lot of other tasks to get to tonight after wasting an hour cleaning up this mess. If you have further questions, take them to the Teahouse. Good night. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:05, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee General Sanctions

Hello, Skovl,

Please read over Wikipedia:General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian_War. You are not an extended confirmed editor and you shouldn't be editing pages on the subject of this war. And you definitely should not be creating new articles, they will be subject to deletion. Please abide by arbitration rules or you could be brought to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement and face sanctions like topic bans or a loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:31, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Important notice

Hi Skovl,

I have noticed that you have recently edited pages related to the Russo-Ukrainian War. Please note that, due to community consensus documented at WP:GS/RUSUKR, only extended-confirmed editors may make such edits.

When in doubt, please assume that a topic is covered by this restriction. We call this "broadly construed". If this still leaves you unsure about whether a topic is affected by the restriction, feel free to ask on my talk page.

This is not widely announced to newcomers, so I'm not blaming or condemning you for not knowing about this. I'm also not saying that your editing has been problematic in any other way. Your edit may well have been perfectly fine in all other regards, yet may have been removed for this reason.

Additionally, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee has recognized "Eastern Europe or the Balkans" as a generally contentious topic area. Don't worry: The restriction to extended-confirmed editors is about the Russo-Ukrainian War, not the entirety of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The box below contains standardized advice for everyone.

You have recently been editing Eastern Europe or the Balkans, which has been designated a contentious topic. This standard message is designed as an introduction to contentious topics and does not imply that there are any issues with your editing.

A special set of rules applies to certain topic areas, which are referred to as contentious topics. These are specially-designated topics that tend to attract more persistent disruptive editing than the rest of the project and have been designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee. When editing a contentious topic, Wikipedia’s norms and policies are more strictly enforced and Wikipedia administrators have special powers in order to reduce disruption to the project.

Within contentious topics, editors should edit carefully and constructively, refrain from disrupting the encyclopedia, and:

adhere to the purposes of Wikipedia;

comply with all applicable policies and guidelines;

follow editorial and behavioural best practice;

comply with any page restrictions in force within the area of conflict; and

refrain from gaming the system.

Editors are advised to err on the side of caution if unsure whether making a particular edit is consistent with these expectations. If you have any questions about contentious topics procedures you may ask them at the arbitration clerks' noticeboard or you may learn more about this contentious topic here. You may also choose to note which contentious topics you know about by using the {{Ctopics/aware}} template.

This may be confusing, so I'll attempt to summarize it:

• Only extended-confirmed editors may edit pages related to the Russo-Ukrainian War. Details and exceptions can be found at WP:GS/RUSUKR.
• All edits about Eastern Europe and the Balkans, by all users, need to be done with extra care.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if there are any questions.

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:52, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

@ToBeFree @Liz Thank you for clarifying. Did I understand correctly that I should not edit something relating to Ukraine untill I will be Wikipedia:User access levels#Extendedconfirmed? Skovl (talk) 14:05, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

That would be ideal. The exact wording isn't "Ukraine" but "the Russo-Ukrainian War". There may be topics that are "relating to Ukraine" but completely unrelated to the war, and editing these would be fine. If you are unsure if something is affected by the restriction, it's best to assume that it is.

As soon as you are extended-confirmed, the restriction does not affect you anymore. Please do not make many pointless edits just to circumvent the restriction, though: The extended-confirmed status can be removed by administrators in such cases.

Constructive ideas for contributions can be found at the Task Center and the community portal. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:24, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Editing talk page comments after others have replied

In relation to this edit, please see WP:TALK#REPLIED and consider self-reverting. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:34, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Dolyn per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dolyn. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Spicy (talk) 09:45, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Skovl. Thank you for your work on Liberalism in the Czech lands. User:AngusWOOF, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

I guess so, although potentially delete with RFD

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|AngusWOOF}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 01:33, 11 May 2023 (UTC)