User talk:AlexMaser

Reversion at Legality of cannabis
Hello Alex, I've reverted your edits at Legality of cannabis for a few reasons:
 * The way you wrote it, you're spending literally 10% of the article not even discussing cannabis, but rather just explaining the term "externalities"
 * When you do get past that and start talking about cannabis, it appears to be WP:Original research where it's your personal analysis of externalities of cannabis
 * As a general hard rule, Wikipedia absolutely does not ask rhetorical questions like "so, how does this concept apply to cannabis"?
 * Fundamentally, what you added in ancillary to the specific topic of the page, which is legality of cannabis.

Please don't be discouraged by the reversion, just bear in mind that ambitious expansions are really hard to do until you get a feel for how encyclopedia writing is done. In the meantime, if you have suggestions on what needs to be added to our cannabis coverage, I suggest you drop into Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cannabis to introduce yourself and pitch ideas. That way you can get an idea for what kind of edits we do and don't need, rather than working in the dark trying to figure it out.

No hard feelings, it's just that your edits were taking the article on a different tangent from the topic. Drop into WP:Cannabis and say hello, and folks would be glad to give suggestions on how you can ease your way in to covering the topic. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 04:11, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Dude, you can't just force your version through by reverting it again; take it to the Talk page or WP:Cannabis since you've had two editors in a row tell you that it wasn't a good addition. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 05:00, 22 February 2018 (UTC)