User talk:SkarmoutsosV

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Hello SkarmoutsosV, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Brush (electric) have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:44, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I apologise for creating User:SkarmoutsosV/Userboxes/CanadaToronto page. It was a mistake; my original intention was to create that sandbox within my namespace, but made a typo. Sorry about that. WikiLinuz🍁(talk) 11:24, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Strange request here, but an article about me and my Wikipedia work has been promoted to Good article status at English Wikipedia and nominated for similar status at Spanish Wikipedia. I'm curious if you have any interest in translating the entry for Greek Wikipedia?

Figured I'd ask since your profile suggests you do translation work. Either way, happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:46, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]