General Lemarc

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December 2022

Hi General Lemarc! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—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. —  HELLKNOWZ ∣ TALK 10:40, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi there! I apologize for the error-I was under the assumption that any edit pertaining to a single sentence would count as "minor". Thank you for correcting me, and I'll definitely avoid making this mistake in the future. General Lemarc (talk) 12:21, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you recently removed content from Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 10:20, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

I apologize. I was not very awake at the time and assumed that my description was sufficient explanation. Having had time to re-examine the article, I can no longer remember my precise reasoning for the deletion, so thank you for reverting it. If I can't remember it, it can't have been anything worthwhile. General Lemarc (talk) 10:44, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to List of scholarly publishing stings, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. You deleted text sourced to an expert because you didn’t approve of the viewpoint it presented. That’s not a reason meeting our guidelines and policies Doug Weller talk 10:30, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Ditto Doug Weller talk 10:33, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

April 2023

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Socialist Workers Party (United States), you may be blocked from editing. Adding a position solely based on the ideologies present is not valid, it is not how we operate on wikipedia! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 03:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Then why is it that your version without a specific source is acceptable, but my version without a source isn't? And are you really willing to escalate "you can't prove this communist party is far-left"? General Lemarc (talk) 03:02, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at ocialist Workers Party (United States) 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; read about 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. —C.Fred (talk) 03:01, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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FYI, you don't need to add ~~~~ at the end of every edit summary. You only need to sign after posting on a talkpage or while posting your vote in discussions with other users (e.g. at Articles for Deletion). Best, Prodraxis _(talk) 01:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)