User talk:Indivisibleca39

Welcome and suggestions
Hi Indivisibleca39! I saw your first edit on "California's 39th congressional district election, 2018", and I wanted to welcome you to Wikipedia and make a few friendly suggestions for participating here, to encourage you to contribute constructively to improving this article and related articles.

My first concern is that your username seems to represent a group (Indivisible CA39) instead of an individual, and Wikipedia policy is that "Usernames that unambiguously represent the name of a company, group, institution or product" are not permitted - see WP:ORGNAME. This means that you're at risk of being blocked unless you change your username - here are the instructions for doing that: Changing username.

My second concern is that if you represent or are closely involved in Indivisible CA39, it's important to avoid editing sections of articles directly related to the group, such as the first paragraph that you removed. See Plain and simple conflict of interest guide - if you're directly involved in a topic, Wikipedia guidelines recommend that you post a recommended correction to the talk page (Talk:California's 39th congressional district election, 2018) so that other uninvolved editors can review the correction and implement it if they agree with it.

My third concern is that entirely removing large chunks of content cited to secondary sources is generally not a successful method here, because people will likely just disagree with your edit and revert it. If you have a major concern about a section's sourcing, despite it appearing to follow Wikipedia guidelines for neutral information sourced to secondary sources, it's more effective to bring this up on the talk page with evidence explaining your concern, or to make smaller edits with very specific edit summaries that justify the edits in more detail. An alternative approach for quotes that seem taken out of context is to improve the section by clarifying the context, instead of deleting the content.

I hope this is helpful - feel free to follow up on the talk page for the article with questions about the article or about approaching editing it. Thanks! Dreamyshade (talk) 03:33, 1 August 2018 (UTC)