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Happy editing! C F A 03:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025

Hello, I'm Snowycats. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Samira Saraya, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Snowycats (talk) 02:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I left you a message on your talkpage. I also replied below. As I already said:

Someone else made changes to Samira Saraya's page recently (as I explained in my reply to "snowycats" who removed my edits. The changes they made are incorrect. I simply changed the page back to how it was for years, which contained the correct biographical information. Whoever made the recent changes (replacing "Palestinian" with "Israeli" and with "Arab," and removing several sentences about her turning down of a role because she found it to be Islamophobic, is what was defamatory. All of the previous information was correct, and was referenced (and when I corrected it back I also included references. Samira is a well know public figure, she is Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, and identifies as Palestinian accordingly. ASWAT is a Palestinian queer activist group based in Israel (not "Arab Israeli). It is the changes the person who made recent edits to the page about a week and a half ago who should not have been allowed to make the changes they did (replacing "Palestinian" with "Israeli" and removing sections of her biographical information. If this is not corrected immediately wikipedia will be responsible for allowing defamatory changes in addition to not allowing it to be corrected Wikcorrectedit (talk) 03:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Samira Saraya. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Snowycats (talk) 03:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Samira Saraya 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; read about 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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Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did with this edit to Samira Saraya. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. C F A 03:17, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Someone else made changes to Samira Saraya's page recently (as I explained in my reply to "snowycats" who removed my edits. The changes they made are incorrect. I simply changed the page back to how it was for years, which contained the correct biographical information. Whoever made the recent changes (replacing "Palestinian" with "Israeli" and with "Arab," and removing several sentences about her turning down of a role because she found it to be Islamophobic, is what was defamatory. All of the previous information was correct, and was referenced (and when I corrected it back I also included references. Samira is a well know public figure, she is Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, and identifies as Palestinian accordingly. ASWAT is a Palestinian queer activist group based in Israel (not "Arab Israeli). It is the changes the person who made recent edits to the page about a week and a half ago who should not have been allowed to make the changes they did (replacing "Palestinian" with "Israeli" and removing sections of her biographical information. If this is not corrected immediately wikipedia will be responsible for allowing defamatory changes in addition to not allowing it to be corrected. Wikcorrectedit (talk) 03:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 03:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Jay8g [V•T•E] 04:02, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]