User talk:MarkDalit

Wikipedia Three-revert rule warning
You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from editing. Mr. Dalit, you have reverted a particular section of this article to an old version that you like three times in under three hours. That's not how Wikipedia works. Please be aware that if you continue in this fashion, you will be blocked from editing.

You mention that I have made many edits in recent days. This is true. My edits have been largely focused on copyediting, proper style of citations, updating data, and so forth. I can see from the history of the section in question that it existed in a reasonably concise, well-written, balanced, and stable form for many months before you intervened to expand it all out of proportion and slant it in particular ways. There are other problems: you do not seem to know what the word "encompass" means; you do not appear to understand the importance of focusing on the history of the United States (rather than, say, the history of the rise of Islamic terrorism); you do not appear to understand that in an overlong general article on the U.S., that we can not indulge in expansive detailing of "context"; you do not appear to recognize that certain of the balancing language you prefer has now been included. The fact that you have not made any edits in months and have reappeared only to repeatedly restore your personally preferred version underscores how tendentious your position is.DocKino (talk) 00:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)