User talk:Donsmokem

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meco 08:54, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

March 2008
Hi, the recent edit you made to Drug-eluting stent 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. Thanks. Werdan7T @ 01:03, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Please do not attack other editors. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. This edit summary is not appropriate. Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 01:12, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Orange Marlin Talk• Contributions 01:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

You've made some pretty big changes to the Drug-eluting stent. While everyone is invited to be bold, it looks like User:Orangemarlin disagrees with your changes. I recommend discussing on the talk page, rather than continuing to edit war. Thanks--Werdan7T @ 01:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It appears that the editor has chosen to own the article rather than develop it with a team of editors. We're even trying to construct a manual of style for medical device articles to parallel the pharmaceutical and medical articles.  But of course, when someone owns the article, it's hard to develop this.  I'll wait until Donsmokem goes back to something else, and I'll clean it up with a team of editors that likes to work together rather than run amok.  I'm done here.   Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 03:20, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Marlin, it is quite frustrating for me to spend the effort at cleaning up a disorganized piece, adding important references, and balancing with NPOV content -- then you repeatedly undo, deleting my contribution and that of others, resetting to a really particularly messy old version. May I request that rather than object to my editorial effort as "ownership", you address my version of Mar 12 2008 on a topic by topic basis? Please do not reset to that tired old version again. Thank you. Donsmokem (talk) 16:30, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Alternate action
I saw that you asked what other courses of action could be taken in scenarios like this, and although I can't say what would be suitable for you, of course, I can tell you what was suitable for me. I also recently had a run-in like this where marlin reverted everything I did, so after asking around, I made a post here, asking for input or asking for an admin to tell marlin to stop, I added this to the talk page of the article in question, and, although it never came to it, I was preparing to ask an admin to block marlin from editing the page given his poor etiquette. I also assembled a central body of evidence against him if I were to have to ask that he be blocked entirely from medicine articles, though fortunately it never came to that. I also told marlin to get off my talk page because all he was doing was giving me stupid warning (like the ones above). Again, I can't say what's best, especially given that marlin appears to have stopped editing the page about stents, but just for future reference, I hope you find these helpful. My entire experience with marlin and a couple others really woke me up as to how much POV accredited editors like him with multiple awards can have. I used to sparodically edit articles that were totally non-controversial, but as soon as you go near political articles or economic articles like these, it goes downhill very quickly. Oh yeah, and the article that I had a problem with is Aids, though marlin gave up a while ago.Merechriolus (talk) 21:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

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