User talk:Gominator

July 2014
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at User:Colosiant, you may be blocked from editing. ï¿½ (talk) 13:46, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to 40 Wall Street. TheMesquito buzz  01:26, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Floor counts
Why are you changing floor counts to numbers which are not in the source provided. On both 40 Wall Street and 70 Pine Street, the number you changed it to was wrong according to the source that was referenced. Please stop this. BMK (talk) 01:26, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Disruption
OK, I don't have the time or inclination to check ever single one of your edits to see if you've inserted bad information into the article. I've checked a half-dozen and they were wrong, so I'm just going to assume that all your edits are bad and revert them all. Any time you want to stop being disruptive by deliberately inserting bad informaion, put a note here and we'll see how things proceed. Until then, your edits are going to be reverted. BMK (talk) 01:32, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Listen: you must  communicate with other editors who come to you with problems about your editing. Failiure to do so is a sure-fire way to get yourself blocked from editing.  Now, please explain what you are doing, why you are doing it, and where you are getting your erroneous figures from. BMK (talk) 01:54, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Gorminator responded on my talk page. Here is what he wrote:
 * Dear Beyond My Ken,


 * I wanted to get back to you. I am relatively new to editing and wasn't aware that I was not following the necessary protocols. I was not trying to vandalize any articles, but I was trying to make them match the data in other Wikipedia articles. For example, according to the Wikipedia page titled "List of tallest buildings in Atlanta," the GLG Grand is listed as the eleventh-tallest building in Atlanta because the buildings 1180 Peachtree and 3344 Peachtree are taller. So according to this article, it is not the ninth, as it says in the article that I edited named "GLG Grand." Here is the link of the Wikipedia page, "List of tallest buildings in Atlanta" where I got this information.


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Atlanta


 * All the other edits that I made today used data that I found from other Wikipedia pages as well as Google. I thought that if I was using this type of information to make the edits that it would be valid. Am I supposed to present this information to someone before making the edits and if so, who do I contact and how do I contact them?


 * Sincerely


 * Gominator — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gominator (talk • contribs) 02:19, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Gorminater: Thanks for getting back to me. Let's start with some basic stuff:
 * All information on Wikipedia is supposed to come from what we call reliable sources. You can click on that link to get the full account of what that means, but basically we're talking about books published by major companies and universities (mot self-published books), reputable newspapers and magazine, websites that have a reputation for accuracy, and so on.  Of course, Wikipedia is edited by many different people, and they use many different sources for their information.  Sometimes those sources, even though we consider them to be reliable, do not agree.  Also, sometimes people don't bother to quote a source and juts put information in without one -- that happens a lot, and if another editor has doubts about it, he can take steps to make sure a source is provided.
 * Given all this, we have collectively decided that, because much of the information here comes from editors, and sometimes it is unsourced, Wikipedia is not considered to be a reliable source! That may sound like a bit of a paradox, but if you think about it it make sense.  A piece of erroneous information slips into an article, someone else uses it in another article, and so forth and so on, and before you know it there's not one bit of bad information, there's 20 or 100.  That's why you should never use Wikipedia as a source of information when editing Wikipedia.  You can use the info to help guide your research, but you should always go to a reliable source to get information.
 * People also vandalize Wikipedia as well, and one of the sneakier ways they do so is by changing numbers so that they look reasonablem but are no longer accurate.
 * I see, then, what happened. You saw in an article that Such-and-such building was 70 stories, but the infobox said it was 71 stories, so you changed the infobox to say 70 stories, harmonizing it with the article. I, however, looked at the source that was referenced in the first place which said that the building was 71 stories, so I changed both the article and the infobox to harmonize with the source.
 * Always check the source provided, and, if there is no source, find one. Certainly we want Wikipedia articles to be accurate, and to say the same thing, but the best way to do that is to find the best possible source and use it to find the right information. (If you do find a new source, be sure to add it to the article - just take a look at the references that are marked by the tags, and copy what you see there.
 * That's about it. If you have any questions, you can ask them here, I'll have your talk page on my watchlist, so I or another editor will answer it if we can.  You can also go to the WP:Help desk and ask a question there.  Good luck, BMK (talk) 02:38, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

A belated welcome!
Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Gominator. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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Again, welcome! Chillum 02:27, 19 July 2014 (UTC)