User talk:172.118.152.197

September 2023
Please stop. If you continue to attempt to make unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Colorado Springs, Colorado, you may be blocked from editing. Ad Orientem (talk) 18:45, 13 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it would be more helpful to explain to the editor why you consider their editing "unconstructive". The incident concerned is prominent enough to be the subject of a Wikipedia article, and it may seem to a new editor to be perfectly reasonable to add a mention of it to the article about the place where it occurred. JBW (talk) 19:58, 13 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @JBW A fairly trivial story that somehow became a tabloid news sensation, even to the point of garnering some brief attention in the mainstream press/media, is not something that would normally merit mention in an article about a major city, much less in the lead. We don't usually mention serious crimes in articles about cities. As for the main article, I'm not going to send the page to AfD, but if it landed there, I'd probably vote to delete on the basis of failing SUSTAINED, LASTING and the 10YT. That said, the level III warning may have been unnecessarily sharp. Mea culpa mea culpa. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I agree with everything you have said about the editing, the incident it was about, the article on the subject, and the possibility of deletion. My concern was that, as I said, it might not be obvious to a new editor what was considered unsuitable about the editing. In my opinion messages to new editors describing their editing as "unconstructive", but with no explanation why, are unconstructive. JBW (talk) 21:25, 13 September 2023 (UTC)