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Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Black people and Mormonism, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco ( talk) 05:54, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
I have to admit I feel very strongly on the topic of black people and Mormonism. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as is my wife. My wife is African-American. In some ways I get too frustrated by this topic. I have just added some more recent material on BYU and African-Americans. Such as the election in 1976 as Stevenson as a BYU student body vice president. Stevenson was African-American and his election was covered in the New York Times. I almost think we could find enough information to create an article on him. I believe there was at some point in the 1980s or 1990s an article on him in the Ensign, and I believe I saw some coverage of his far too early death a few years ago. Most of this is not in sourcing that some editors in Wikipedia would like, but we do have a full fledged article on him in the New York Times. I also added some material on Robert Foster being elected. That actually received mainly coverage only in Utah. I have to admit I know I am going to find as many things to frustrate me as to encourage me, so I am not sure if I want to dig much deeper. I really thought having the article only reflect the situation over 50 years ago was unreasonable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 13:48, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts as well! I think it's important that this information of the church's past discriminatory actions be made available, but I feel that the Wikipedia article overlooked anything positive and emphasized only negative perspectives, and some editors seem to me to almost be actively trying to suppress any information that might put the church in a positive light. Many edits of my own that have been supported by numerous secondary sources are suddenly deleted with no explanation. Jacobalbee ( talk) 01:03, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Your recent editing history at Book of Mormon shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Bishonen | tålk 07:23, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, Jacobalbee. You are edit warring against two other users at Endowment (Mormonism) in an attempt to include some pretty obviously undue content. Please stop, and engage on the talkpage, where Epachamo has started a discussion. Bluntly, I don't want to have to protect all the LDS articles you edit because of your disruption, and I'm coming quite close to blocking you instead. Bishonen | tålk 11:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC).
"Even without a 3RR violation, an administrator may still act if they believe a user's behavior constitutes edit warring... The rule is not an entitlement to revert a page a specific number of times".Bolding in the original. Two experienced users reverted your long addition. Instead of re-reverting them, you should have gone to Talk. This is the same conduct as you displayed at Book of Mormon: you argue for your version at Talk — that's fine — but simultaneously, you edit war to push it willy-nilly into the article. Persisting in such a pattern becomes disruptive quite quickly. As for the relevance of the content, I pointed you to WP:UNDUE above. Did you read it? Bishonen | tålk 20:34, 21 May 2021 (UTC).
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Black people and Mormonism has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.
Thank you. ClueBot NG ( talk) 07:05, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Jacobalbee! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. We hope to see you there!
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Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Black people and Mormonism, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco ( talk) 05:54, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
I have to admit I feel very strongly on the topic of black people and Mormonism. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as is my wife. My wife is African-American. In some ways I get too frustrated by this topic. I have just added some more recent material on BYU and African-Americans. Such as the election in 1976 as Stevenson as a BYU student body vice president. Stevenson was African-American and his election was covered in the New York Times. I almost think we could find enough information to create an article on him. I believe there was at some point in the 1980s or 1990s an article on him in the Ensign, and I believe I saw some coverage of his far too early death a few years ago. Most of this is not in sourcing that some editors in Wikipedia would like, but we do have a full fledged article on him in the New York Times. I also added some material on Robert Foster being elected. That actually received mainly coverage only in Utah. I have to admit I know I am going to find as many things to frustrate me as to encourage me, so I am not sure if I want to dig much deeper. I really thought having the article only reflect the situation over 50 years ago was unreasonable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 13:48, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your efforts as well! I think it's important that this information of the church's past discriminatory actions be made available, but I feel that the Wikipedia article overlooked anything positive and emphasized only negative perspectives, and some editors seem to me to almost be actively trying to suppress any information that might put the church in a positive light. Many edits of my own that have been supported by numerous secondary sources are suddenly deleted with no explanation. Jacobalbee ( talk) 01:03, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Your recent editing history at Book of Mormon shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Bishonen | tålk 07:23, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, Jacobalbee. You are edit warring against two other users at Endowment (Mormonism) in an attempt to include some pretty obviously undue content. Please stop, and engage on the talkpage, where Epachamo has started a discussion. Bluntly, I don't want to have to protect all the LDS articles you edit because of your disruption, and I'm coming quite close to blocking you instead. Bishonen | tålk 11:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC).
"Even without a 3RR violation, an administrator may still act if they believe a user's behavior constitutes edit warring... The rule is not an entitlement to revert a page a specific number of times".Bolding in the original. Two experienced users reverted your long addition. Instead of re-reverting them, you should have gone to Talk. This is the same conduct as you displayed at Book of Mormon: you argue for your version at Talk — that's fine — but simultaneously, you edit war to push it willy-nilly into the article. Persisting in such a pattern becomes disruptive quite quickly. As for the relevance of the content, I pointed you to WP:UNDUE above. Did you read it? Bishonen | tålk 20:34, 21 May 2021 (UTC).