JBED99

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Hello, JBED99, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Mark W. Rocha, have removed content without an explanation. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles.

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June 2019

Your recent editing history at Mark W. Rocha 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 don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:35, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Help me!

Please help with edits to Mark Rocha's page. I apologize if I'm making mistakes, definitely not trying to start an edit war. I've added more information about more recent developments in his bio. I've also reduced what seemed like (imho) extensive detail about his departure from Pasadena City College, while still leaving clear that there was a lengthly debate about his time at PCC. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks

JBED99 (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

I understand that you are a new editor and are getting used to Wikipedia. Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to cooperate with your fellow editors:

• When you're editing, there's a field below the editing window marked Edit summary. This is there so you can give a simple explanation of what you have changed and why. That will help other editors understand your goals.
• Editing tends to be done in what we call the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle. You can click that link for a fuller explanation, but basically when you make a change and someone else undoes it, don't just make the same change again. Doing so repeatedly (as you've done) is considered edit warring. Instead, as your change has proven controversial, you should discuss your desired change with your fellow editors. Each article has a page set aside for such editing discussions, called the "talk page". So you can go to Talk:Mark W. Rocha and start the discussion there. Only re-insert your changes once you have reached consensus with your fellow editors that it should be done.
• Realize that you are working on a page that has a bad history of editors with a conflict of interest trying to whitewash the page, which makes experienced editors a bit more cautious about changes to the page.
• You may well have a conflict of interest yourself. I suggest that you read Wikipedia's guidelines for recognizing a conflict of interest, for revealing it, and on how to suggest changes for articles where you do have such a conflict, and act accordingly.

Let me know if you have any further questions. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:36, 28 June 2019 (UTC)