User talk:24.18.177.123

July 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Mao, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Mao was changed by 24.18.177.123 (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2009-07-26T20:54:51+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 20:54, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I noted from your edit summaries on Mao that you seem to have a misunderstanding about the role of disambiguation pages. First, you said that this title should not redirect to Mao Zedong because it is a controversial subject.  That is not the issue; the issue, rather, is whether the redirect helps readers find the article they are looking for, even if it is an article about a controversial subject.  Second, you said that Mao has other meanings, so it should redirect to the disambiguation page.  Of course it does have other meanings, that is why the disambiguation page exists.  The issue, however, is whether Mao Zedong is the primary topic of the ambiguous title "Mao", and I think most editors would agree that it is, although it could be that I am mistaken.  At this point, since your edits have been reverted, the appropriate thing to do would be to discuss this on the talk page before attempting to change the redirect again.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)