User talk:Mary Samsonite

Larry Elder
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  22:52, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Important notes
--Neutralitytalk 01:35, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Wow this is ambiguous. With the freedom I have to speculate, I am going to presume that I'm an invaluable asset here. Cool. Mary Samsonite (talk) 02:03, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Mary, I agree with your edits. If anything, you were reverting vandalism, but maybe you should have actually mentioned removing vandalism in your edit summaries. Lostfan333 (talk) 03:59, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, I actually wasn't being sarcastic haha but thanks. I'm aware that I likely have partisan blind spots, and largely don't disagree with the fixes. Mary Samsonite (talk) 04:53, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Both of you need to pay much closer attention to what constitutes vandalism on Wikipedia. That term has a very narrow definition that does not apply to content disputes, and as far as I can see, a content dispute is what what you are discussing. Correct me if I am wrong. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  06:49, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

It started falling apart when the editor I was reverting said they reported me for "vandalizing" their edit (I saw no such report), so I went with it. I don't mind a broad definition of vandalism (I am not a fan of Banksy) but I see what the Wikipedia standard is. Mary Samsonite (talk) 07:14, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Photo
The Larry Elder photo is clearly covered under Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Try reading the description and doing the very basics before nominating for deletion. You seem new here, so learn the ground rules before doing such. Pennsylvania2 (talk) 02:44, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * My apologies. I did not know Youtube could display the content licensing status. I think I would be right if they did not though--a screenshot of anything that isn't already explicitly in the public domain wouldn't be allowed? Anyway, I'll look it up myself. Mary Samsonite (talk) 02:49, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Obviously, not everything on YouTube is free use. Videos with marked under CC are, though. Pennsylvania2 (talk) 02:51, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * I appreciate the the cookie offer, but I do this for free. Mary Samsonite (talk) 03:49, 17 September 2021 (UTC)