User talk:Joshua thor

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 Sincerely, Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:05, 22 October 2019 (UTC)   [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Walter_G%C3%B6rlitz&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:05, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Election results
The "incumbents" column in Results of the 2019 Canadian federal election by riding is not for repeating the winner of the riding; it is for listing who held the riding at the end of the previous parliament. The candidates column is where we mark the winners — but the information in the "incumbents" column does not change just because the election's over, because that's how the table makes note of whether the previous incumbent was reelected, defeated or stepped down. Bearcat (talk) 23:42, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I was just coming to say the same thing. The word "incumbent" means the person who held the seat prior to the election. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * See the second definition at https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/incumbent Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:53, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

One more time: the incumbents column is not for repeating the winner of the riding, it is for listing the person who held the riding before the election started. You've now ignored three different people who've undone your edits while explaining the same thing, so I've been left with no choice but to put the page under temporary edit protection to make you stop. If you start doing this again when the protection comes back off in a couple of hours, it's not going to be the page that gets locked again — it's going to be your editing privileges. Bearcat (talk) 23:58, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

To the leader walter gorlits
So sorry! I did not mean to do that and I kept writing. Sorry. I am trying to learn how to edit using wikipedia, and it is hard. I am only 11 years old and I was trying to figure out wikipedia without any help from the info guide and you also explained what the word " incumbent " means. Sorry, and thank you, Joshua Joshua thor (talk) 00:07, 23 October 2019 (UTC)