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Karanemacedar claimed in this edit that there inaccuracies in the article. I think it would be best that rather than reverting outright, all the editors involved here work out which parts should stay and which parts should be deleted. Altamel ( talk) 22:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Some serious problems have manifested ont his page, and as a result it is now protected from editing for a while. The purpose of protection is twofold: one purpose is to stop disruption to the article, the other is to allow all parties involved in the dispute a chance to discuss the matter instead of edit warring and leaving nasty comments in edit sumarries. If any of that behavior resumes, from any party, after the protection expires, blocks will be issued on all offending parties. This is not how we do things here.
And on that point, it seems clear that pretty much everyone involved in this had some sort of personal relationship with this person. Wikipedia strongly discourages users from editing in areas where they have an inherent conflict of interest for exactly this reason. It leads to this sort of irresponsible and obnoxious behavior in articles and requires administrative resources and community time to assess the damage and make needed fixes. It is preferable that those with a close assosciation to the subject of an article propose their suggested edits here, on the article's talk page, so that other, uninvolved users may review them and decide if they are appropriate. At the moment, you don't have any choice in the matter due to the protection so this is an opportunity for you all see how to do things properly instead of what you have been doing. Please feel free to use any of the many forms of dispute resolution available to you.
Hope that helps. Beeblebrox ( talk) 00:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, everybody. Read this. Tell your cohort that it's open season on promotional editing. Chris Troutman ( talk) 23:17, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
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A fact from Marty Schmidt appeared on Wikipedia's
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Karanemacedar claimed in this edit that there inaccuracies in the article. I think it would be best that rather than reverting outright, all the editors involved here work out which parts should stay and which parts should be deleted. Altamel ( talk) 22:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Some serious problems have manifested ont his page, and as a result it is now protected from editing for a while. The purpose of protection is twofold: one purpose is to stop disruption to the article, the other is to allow all parties involved in the dispute a chance to discuss the matter instead of edit warring and leaving nasty comments in edit sumarries. If any of that behavior resumes, from any party, after the protection expires, blocks will be issued on all offending parties. This is not how we do things here.
And on that point, it seems clear that pretty much everyone involved in this had some sort of personal relationship with this person. Wikipedia strongly discourages users from editing in areas where they have an inherent conflict of interest for exactly this reason. It leads to this sort of irresponsible and obnoxious behavior in articles and requires administrative resources and community time to assess the damage and make needed fixes. It is preferable that those with a close assosciation to the subject of an article propose their suggested edits here, on the article's talk page, so that other, uninvolved users may review them and decide if they are appropriate. At the moment, you don't have any choice in the matter due to the protection so this is an opportunity for you all see how to do things properly instead of what you have been doing. Please feel free to use any of the many forms of dispute resolution available to you.
Hope that helps. Beeblebrox ( talk) 00:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, everybody. Read this. Tell your cohort that it's open season on promotional editing. Chris Troutman ( talk) 23:17, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
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