Your recent editing history at Democracy Now! 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.
See WP:BURDEN. The burden is on you, the person who wants to add material that is being removed by multiple editors, to support your position on the talk page. The burden is not on those removing your addition, it is on you. ~ Anachronist ( talk) 14:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
I saw you wrote earlier on Talk:Democracy Now! "On the subject of my creating an account, there is no need as I am the only user at this IP address, so I prefer to remain anonymous."
Actually, you are more anonymous with an account. As an IP address, it's trivial for anyone to geolocate you. If your IP address appears on other places you visit, your activities can be traced. On the other hand, with an account named however you like (not using your real name), only administrators with the "checkuser" right (and there aren't many of them) can know your IP address.
The other advantage to having an account, if you're going to be more active here, is that you have a constant location where people can communicate with you. With an IP address, unless you have a contract for a static IP address with your provider, your provider can reassign another IP address to you at any time.
The disadvantage to an account, of course, is that you have to log into it. But Wikipedia lets you keep a login session open for a whole year at a time, 365 days. As long as you access it from the same browser, you need re-log in only once per year, but then you need to remember your password. To do this, you can tie your account to an email address to help you reset your password if you lose it. ~ Anachronist ( talk) 21:31, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
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Your recent editing history at Democracy Now! 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.
See WP:BURDEN. The burden is on you, the person who wants to add material that is being removed by multiple editors, to support your position on the talk page. The burden is not on those removing your addition, it is on you. ~ Anachronist ( talk) 14:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
I saw you wrote earlier on Talk:Democracy Now! "On the subject of my creating an account, there is no need as I am the only user at this IP address, so I prefer to remain anonymous."
Actually, you are more anonymous with an account. As an IP address, it's trivial for anyone to geolocate you. If your IP address appears on other places you visit, your activities can be traced. On the other hand, with an account named however you like (not using your real name), only administrators with the "checkuser" right (and there aren't many of them) can know your IP address.
The other advantage to having an account, if you're going to be more active here, is that you have a constant location where people can communicate with you. With an IP address, unless you have a contract for a static IP address with your provider, your provider can reassign another IP address to you at any time.
The disadvantage to an account, of course, is that you have to log into it. But Wikipedia lets you keep a login session open for a whole year at a time, 365 days. As long as you access it from the same browser, you need re-log in only once per year, but then you need to remember your password. To do this, you can tie your account to an email address to help you reset your password if you lose it. ~ Anachronist ( talk) 21:31, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
This is the
discussion page for an IP user, identified by the user's
IP address. Many IP addresses change periodically, and are often shared by several users. If you are an IP user, you may
create an account or log in to avoid future confusion with other IP users.
Registering also hides your IP address. |