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To edit in the Israeli-Palestinian topic area on Wikipedia accounts must be at least thirty days old and have at least 500 edits. This includes editing talk pages, with the sole exception being for edit requests. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 18:35, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Editing an article with a contentious topic

Hi, i could use administrator help.

I would like to edit an article but, because it's has a contentious topic, I rather did a suggestion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration#Reference_to_Nakba_missing_in_description_of_Israeli_settlement_history My questions:

1. Would you encourage me to make the edit myself? Or put my suggestion on the Talk page of the article i referred to?
2. Is it useful to ask an experienced member of the WikiProject to help/review/mentor before i edit?
3. if (!) my suggestion is accepted, is there a way to let a bot implement the suggested sentence in more then 100 pages? Or will it always be manual work?

Thank you in advance! ~ VanderlekD (talk) 21:55, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

1. You do not meet the requirements to edit in this area, so you should not make the edit yourself. You can open (non-disruptive) edit requests on talk pages, but may not otherwise discuss such an article on its talk page directly.
2. I would definitely consider it wise to seek input from others regarding potential edits to any page covering a contentious topic, regardless of whether or not you are permitted to directly make the edit yourself. Attempting to establish consensus ahead of time is a good way to demonstrate that you are acting in good faith and are willing to discuss and cooperate with other editors on difficult topics.
3. Possibly. Tools like AutoWikiBrowser exist, though I would be extremely careful implementing any kind of automated editing yourself, and especially on articles covering contentious topics.

--Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 01:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)