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January 2014
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Washington (state). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Administrators can block users from editing if they repeatedly vandalize. Thank you. PrairieKid (talk) 23:55, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Editing of Demographics of Metro Detroit
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If you don't mind, I would like to show you a few things: WhisperToMe (talk) 16:34, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 1. This changing of African-American to black is contrary to the formal style. As explained in African American, the word "African American" is more common in formal usage. "Black" is more common in casual use. The English Wikipedia is written in a more formal style.
 * 2. Because this edit changed the link to an article title that did not exist, the article link became broken. I'm glad you realized this seeing that you changed it back :)
 * 3. In this case it's generally better to say "Hispanic and Latino" as some identify with one group, and some identify with another.
 * 4. When editing content connected to a citation, if possible read the source before making the edit. In this edit reordered and changed the ethnic groups. Is this reflected in the cited source?
 * Unfortunately http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=109 is a broken link. Fortunately web.archive.org saved a copy here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070731040800/http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=109 - I used http://webcitation.org to save another copy at http://www.webcitation.org/6Mckv1IS5 to further prevent deletion.
 * In reviewing the cited source, it doesn't say anything about Slavic Americans and instead lists groups individually. I suppose the order doesn't matter, but then it would be redundant to list Poles separately from Slavs. Also "Chaldeans" in Detroit consider themselves separate from Arabs. This is why I titled the article: History of the Middle Easterners in Metro Detroit as it includes people whether they consider themselves Arab or not, and whether they are from Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine or from Iraq or from Yemen.