Pingpong947

June 2024

Hello, I'm AgisdeSparte. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Rape by deception seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. AgisdeSparte (talk) 16:45, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

How did I not have a neutral point of view? I removed a poorly written part of the page, didn't I? Pingpong947 (talk) 07:25, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

@AgisdeSparte: I'm still waiting on a response from you. Pingpong947 (talk) 12:56, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

On the day I reverted your edit, I performed over 150 reverts across the encyclopedia. Given that your account had fewer than 5 edits and was making changes on a highly contentious topic, it raised some red flags, especially since your edit involved removing a source (+1000 b of content) without any discussion on the article's talk page.

After reviewing your edit, I encourage you to bring it up on the article's talk page so that other contributors can weigh in and assess the validity and relevance of the changes. From a preliminary review, the edit doesn't appear to me as particularly problematic, but engaging in discussion will help ensure that any modifications are thoroughly vetted by the community.

Cordially, AgisdeSparte (talk) 13:50, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Why would I need to discuss it when I gave my reasons in the "reason for edit" bit? The reasons are pretty self-evident and valid by a quick observation. Perhaps you should edit for a discussion to validate your reason for blocking it? Pingpong947 (talk) 21:17, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Usually, you would want to discuss specific disputes at the respective article's "talk page." If you want the person that "reverted" you to chime in, you might want to "ping" them there. Otherwise, reverting (i.e. "undoing") is something you can do yourself so long as you do not violate the rule WP:3RR. Biohistorian15 (talk) 21:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I will probably revert that since I stand by my edit. I'm still unsure why the need for a talk discussion when the issues are so clearly outlined and the reason given. It's going to wind up with bad faith editors protecting poorly written and sourced entries, IMO.

I've tried bringing up potential edits on other pages before. I was recently told to not comment anymore because I only have 22 edits. My comments are all strikethrough marked out, although I provided sources for things. It would seem Wikipedia is completely ideologically captured on several different fronts. Pingpong947 (talk) 03:11, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

There is actually a whole article called Ideological bias on Wikipedia. In any case, if/when you know the ropes better, editing controversial articles (without immediate revert) is certainly at least a possibility. You can ask any questions you might have in the future on my talk page. Biohistorian15 (talk) 09:35, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

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