User talk:Elitareq.ebl

June 2023
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. JBW (talk) 20:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi JBW. This wasn't a vandalism case, and it would have been fairly simple to verify this. The edits in question on the page for D. M. Bradford were not adequately cited, but represented a good faith attempt to update the name and gender identity for a published author, which you could have verified with a quick internet search for the author's name. Please read up on Manual of Style/Gender identity and be more conscientious about doing vandalism reverts that involve name/gender ID changes in the future. Thanks. Handpigdad (talk) 22:56, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying the situation for me. You may, however, like to reconsider whether you did so in the best possible way. Accusing me of not being "conscientious", rather than having made a mistake, may not have been ideal. You may also like to consider how much reduction there would be in the amount of useful work I manage to do if every time I came across a totally unexplained change of the name of the subject of an article by a new account, I spent time searching for evidence, just in case this happened to be one of the one in however many thousands of occasions where the unexplained change is justified. JBW (talk) 11:17, 1 July 2023 (UTC)