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Happy editing! Yutah123 (talk) 05:34, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024

Hi Dmhll! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Yutah123 (talk) 05:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I understand, thank you for clarifying. Dmhll (talk) 05:35, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Dmhll! Your additions to 2024 in the United States have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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Disambiguation link notification for June 27

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited 2024 in the United States, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page George Latimer.

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Overlinking on 2024 in the United States

Heya; thank you by the way for your contributions to 2024 in the United States, but something I have noticed is that a lot of your entries seem to overly link common words such as minivan, plagiarism, etc. Our Manual of Style says at MOS:OL (the entry for overlinking) that most common items that people would very likely understand should not be linked, such as basic objects, states, countries and nationalities, and most of the exceptions listed would not likely apply to 2024 in the US' entries. Please keep this in mind when you're writing. Again, thanks for your contributions! InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 14:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I was mostly copying from their entries in Portal:Current events, so any linking that was already there was kept the same. I'll make sure to pare down next time. Dmhll (talk) 17:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Hey Dmhll! Thank you again for the additions to 2024 in the US, but please make sure to leave edit summaries as a courtesy to the rest of us. Makes our lives a bit easier. Thanks (yet again)! InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 19:42, 9 July 2024 (UTC)