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Please do not add or change content, as you did at Yenakiieve, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources to see how to add references to an article. Thank you. TylerBurden (talk) 16:52, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced biographical content, especially if controversial, to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Aleksandr Chupriyan. 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. TylerBurden (talk) 00:33, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted numerous recent edits by you in whole or in part, ranging from antics inserting entirely unsourced or poorly sourced (like X) claims of Russian military advances in Ukraine, to inserting terminology like "the great patriotic war" into articles, though with the sheer volume of edits, I doubt all damage has been undone. As you should be aware, you are doing all this in a WP:CTOP, the next time I see you go an adventure like this, I will report you. TylerBurden (talk) 00:56, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Sviato-Pokrovske. It doesn't matter that you label something ″pro″, you're still citing social media in a WP:CTOP, consider this a final warning before I report you. TylerBurden (talk) 08:17, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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