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Template talk:History of the Chinese

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you create Template:History of the Chinese. It is not appropriate to create a same template with just different BC/AD system. It will cause an edit war on which template should be used. Please note that both BCE/CE and BC/AD can be used and Wikipedia does not allow editor to change from one style to another without substantial reason to change. See below from Wikipedia:Manual of Style:

"Either CE and BCE or AD and BC can be used—spaced, undotted (without periods) and upper-case. Choose either the BC-AD or the BCE-CE system, but not both in the same article. AD appears before or after a year (AD 1066, 1066 AD); the other abbreviations appear after (1066 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC). The absence of such an abbreviation indicates the default, CE-AD. It is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change; the Manual of Style favors neither system over the other."

--Neo-Jay (talk) 21:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

What you've created is a POV fork, and please stop doing that without further discussion and consensus. Whether you or I might prefer the use of AD/BC is irrelevant; Wikipedia is a cooperative project, and unless there is consensus, things should be left as they are. --Nlu (talk) 22:46, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. What you are engaging is edit warring without discussion and attempt to reach a consensus. If you continue this behavior, you will be referred to WP:AN for sanctions. --Nlu (talk) 22:48, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Nlu, thank you for comments, but please note that I am only using the new BC/AD template for pages that are already BC/AD, I am avoiding pages that are using BCE/CE. Pages that are BC/AD should have the option of a BC/AD template. This is an attempted compromise Simplonicity (talk) 22:51, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, "attempted compromises" should still be discussed, and your actions are edit warring. I'd say that it might actually be a good start if you discuss the merits of the template in the deletion discussion. If the template survives deletion, then further discussion should be made as to when, if ever, the template is appropriate. --Nlu (talk) 22:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

3RR warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Template:History of China. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. -Andrew c ^[talk] 22:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Date consistency thanks

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Much appreciated Simplonicity (talk)

Date warring

Stop now. You have removed honorifics without even the thinnest excuse. You have changed templates without discussion or any attempt at consensus. You have used subterfuge to change articles that were overwhelmingly in favor of BCE/CE to your preferred era style whilst leaving deceptive edit summaries. Your conduct has been reported at WP:ANI. It's all going to be reverted, so you may as well stop. As a consolation, you may wish to know that this sort of editing is very welcome at Conservapedia. Have you considered editing there? --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 05:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Dates on Coptic language

I've reverted your date format change on this article; please don't restore it without talk page discussion. Because your talk page activity indicates that your edit is part of an ongoing behavior pattern, I'm going to be monitoring your contributions and will issue a block the next time I observe you unilaterally changing date formats. Thank you. Dppowell (talk) 05:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)