User talk:Joshinda26

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October 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Anti-pornography movement, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Alacante45 (talk) 16:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I made two edits (1, 2), one to add three references to a statement that had remained unsourced since July and the other to add reference titles to them. Are you saying you believe referencing content is unconstructive? Joshinda26 (talk) 16:08, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit war
Please don't revert on the Algae article again. The issue should be moved to the article talk page, as I have done. Thanks. --184.99.172.218 (talk) 16:56, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * WP:V is a core policy and edits that violate this policy should be reverted as it devalues the quality of the article. Joshinda26 (talk) 16:58, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I do consider User:Alacante45's edits to be vandalism, but I think he's inexperienced and inappropriately armed with little knowledge and a high speed editing tool rather than being malicious. Although I could be wrong. Still, the nature of his edits seem to be that he believes they are useful to the article. Again, looking at his editing history, it is not easy to see this, and I could be wrong, but it's still better to back off at some point, and find another venue to deal with the issue. If he had been adding things like cuss words and blanking sections an administrator would have put a stop to his editing soon enough. It's difficult for readers when a high level article such as Algae is repeatedly reverted, and what's being reverted is not cuss words or blankings or obvious vandalisms. Failure to cite is not sufficient to make it obvious vandalism. --184.99.172.218 (talk) 17:15, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I never accused him of being a malicous editor. I simply removed unsourced passages from a high profile article in accordance with WP:V which states "Anything that requires but lacks a source may be removed". Joshinda26 (talk) 18:59, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not accusing you of calling him a malicious editor. You can and should remove unsourced passages from a high profile article, and I appreciate that you monitored the article and did so. However, when you have an edit war going on, even if you are reverting vandalism, it is less disruptive overall to just let the edit go, report the vandal, and allow an administrator to take care of it. Don't retire. User:Alacante45 is disrupting wikipedia, and part of disrupting wikipedia includes dragging other editors into the drama. Don't let that happen. A 24-hour block for edit warring isn't that big of a deal, in my opinion. --184.99.172.218 (talk) 20:10, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for your disruption caused by your engagement in an edit war&#32;at Algae. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   17:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

He stopped reverting after I posted that request, and did not revert again after that:

"Please don't revert on the Algae article again. The issue should be moved to the article talk page, as I have done. Thanks. --184.99.172.218 (talk) 16:56, 3 October 2010 (UTC)"

at Current revision as of 16:50, 3 October 2010

--184.99.172.218 (talk) 20:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, I've looked further into this and have decided to reduce your block duration by twelve hours, meaning that you have roughly 8 hours left to serve. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   20:49, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Join a project!
A nice way to get help with basics on wikipedia is by joining a project. You might check out what WikiProject Islam is doing. Projects often have lists and alerts to the articles most in need of help, including articles that need citations. Adding citations to an article is also very useful work. Here is a wikipedia page that can help you with more advanced formatting of citations. Also, if you use books and popular journals, even academic ones, you can sometimes use one of these formatting tools to fill in the rest of the citation for you. I find the one called "Reference Generator" the most helpful. --184.99.172.218 (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

An apology
I apologize for not looking at your edit history more closely when I said at WP:AN/I that I felt blocking both you and User:Alacante45 for edit warring was appropriate. It was clear from your wording in your reversions that you were trying to help, but it wasn't clear that you had already been provoked by Alacante45 and that you were such a new editor to wikipedia. --184.99.172.218 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:14, 3 October 2010 (UTC).

Islamic gardens
Hi, there's a little Islamic garden article I work on sometimes when I get wiki:stressed. It's practically a stub, and the photos are terrible. This is unfortunate, as I am certain there are beautiful, unique Islamic gardens in every country where Muslims have lived. Drop by sometime and add a garden, if you have an opportunity. Regards, Aquib (talk) 04:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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