User talk:MatthewCHoffman

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It's been five years. Welcome back. Jehochman Talk 12:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

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To leave someone a message you need to use their talk page, you edited my user page, doing so is against policy. See WP:TALK. — raeky  t  18:49, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

December 2018
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 BRD 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 don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.)Smeat75 (talk) 05:51, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Replying on talkpages
Hello, Matthew. I noticed that a number of posts at Talk:Census of Quirinius in the section "Erroneous statements" were apparently unsigned. Then it dawned on me that, no, they were parts of a longer post, properly signed by User:Wdford. Your replies had caused the confusion, by being inserted into Wdford's post. Please never do that on talkpages, as it makes the discussion very difficult to follow, by unmooring your opponent's text from their signature. I understand that you meant no harm, and merely wanted to answer Wdford point by point. The best (and standard) way to do that is to quote their post in your own. Bishonen &#124; talk 09:31, 8 December 2018 (UTC).
 * Thanks for advising me about that. If that's against Wikipedia custom then I won't do that in the futureMatthewCHoffman (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2018 (UTC)