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February 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edits you made to High Level, Alberta and Alan Forsyth, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Hwy43 (talk) 18:12, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

The edit you refer to was to replace the link to a valid wiki page that you removed. This is a helpful and constructive edit. Yaloe (talk) 06:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Alan Forsyth, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Aaron Booth (talk) 05:33, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Three-revert rule

Your recent editing history at Alan Forsyth shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. 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.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Hwy43 (talk) 05:36, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Alan Forsyth

The idea behind the notability guidelines is to provide criteria for inclusion. Wikipedia is already around 4 million articles, there is concern to balance the growth in article numbers with the ability to curate them. Thus we do not currently plan to have an article on every book, every album track, every demo tape, every garage band, every elementary school. In terms of elected officials a 1992 survey found that there were 513200 elected officials in the United States alone, world-wide the number must be around 5-10 million at any time, and if we add candidates, double or triple that. Obviously the same applies in other fields of human endeavour. That is the reasoning behind notability guidelines. Rich Farmbrough, 10:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC).