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February 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Gwyneth Paltrow has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Dreadstar ☥  15:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

October 2011
Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Lindsay Pearce. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. AussieLegend (talk) 21:28, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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February 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not include unsupported or inaccurate statements. Whenever you add possibly controversial statements about a living person to an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did to Ashley C. Williams, you must include proper sources. If you don't know how to cite a source, you may want to read Referencing for beginners for guidelines. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

May 2013
Hello, I'm Sideways713. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Cosmological argument because it did not appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Sideways713 (talk) 15:41, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
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Nov, 2016: Market Segmentation - generational segments
I have reverted the editing change you made to the Market Segmentation (generational segments) page (See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Market_segmentation&curid=240342&diff=749601066&oldid=749547697) for the following reasons:

(a) The preamble to this section makes it very clear that the dates for each segment vary from country to country, and that some flexibility must be exercised when reading the table. It important for editors to read any preamble before changing data on a whim.

(b) The dates provided are sourced to an Australian publication by a reputable market research company that specialises in generational segmentation. In Australia, the population peak for these generations especially Baby Boomers) occurred somewhat later than in Europe and the USA, as explained in the preamble. It would be potentially misleading to use a given reference, but cite different data. Users would not be able to verify the data which might cause confusion, and possibly lead to the entire section being challenged and deleted.

(c) If you want to change the dates to reflect the American consensus view, I would not object to that. But I would ask that you at least provide a suitable reference for that data. If you are not prepared to amend the reference to reflect revised data, then the existing text should be allowed to stand until such time as you or another editor can supply a different source with the relevant data. It is not so much a question of what dates editors prefer, but what data can be properly sourced from verifiable sources. In the event that there is likely to be controversy around dates, it is best to provide some sort of an explanation as has already been done in the preamble to this information.

(d) Finally, the insertion of dates 2000-2020 for Generation Z is inappropriate. Nobody has yet been born between 2017 and 2020. We do not have a crystal ball, and cannot know whether analysts and demographers will continue to use the name Gen Z for those born after the current time or whether a different label is to be used for reasons that we cannot speculate about. It is important that Wikipedia articles stick to the known facts and refrain from trying to forecast future scenarios.

BronHiggs (talk) 05:40, 15 November 2016 (UTC)