User Talk: Jamgorham
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June 2022
25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hi Jamgorham! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at :Sabrina Salerno ↗ that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia{{Snd}} 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. Please see Help:Minor edit ↗ for more information. Thank you. <!-- Template:uw-minor --> '''''Sumanuil.''''' ↗ 07:39, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
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25px|alt=Warning icon ↗ Please stop your disruptive editing ↗. If you continue to vandalize ↗ pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at :Dr. Seuss ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗. ''You cannot change direct quotes to your preferred wording.''<!-- Template:uw-error3 --> <span style="color:#066293;">'''Schazjmd'''</span> <span style="color:#738276;">''(talk)''</span> 15:47, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
:Who's the blockhead who invented those sayings anyway? Jamgorham (talk) 16:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
:Dr. Seuss probably said "whale of a time" and the interviewer misheard the "whale" part as "hell", and in the other interview he probably said something that sounded like "subversive as hell" and that interviewer heard it wrong. Jamgorham (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
July 2022
25px|alt=Warning icon ↗ Please stop your disruptive editing ↗. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced ↗ content, as you did at :Shake It Up (The Cars song) ↗, you may be blocked from editing ↗. ''Please stop citing a user page hosted by lionking.org. See WP:USERG ↗.''<!-- Template:uw-unsourced3 --> Binksternet (talk) 02:29, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
:Well if I can't cite user pages, can't I at least keep the AT40 year-end charts and just add "citation needed" at the end? Jamgorham (talk) 03:12, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
::Wikipedia is supposed to be a summary of everything published about a topic. If the AT40 stuff isn't easily available, it doesn't need to be summarized. Binksternet (talk) 04:24, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
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25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hi Jamgorham! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of :Miguel (singer) ↗ several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy ↗ disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.
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November 2025
25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello. Some of your recent genre ↗ changes, such as the one you made to :Rude (song) ↗, have conflicted with our neutral point of view ↗ and/or verifiability ↗ policies. While we invite all users to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, we urge all editors to provide reliable sources ↗ for edits made. When others disagree, we recommend you seek consensus ↗ for certain edits by discussing the matter on the article's talk page. Thank you.<!-- Template:uw-genre1 --> Doctorhawkes (talk) 02:00, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
:I've just reverted a LOT of your unsourced genre edits. It's particularly disappointing when I see you've added "don't add unsourced genres" to pages.Doctorhawkes (talk) 02:26, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
::I'm so sorry. Jamgorham (talk) 02:30, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
December 2025
30px|alt=Stop icon ↗ You may be '''blocked from editing ↗ without further warning''' the next time you change genres in pages without discussion or sources, as you did at :Me Without You (TobyMac song) ↗. <!-- Template:uw-genre4 --> Doctorhawkes (talk) 22:57, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
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April 2026
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