User talk:Mjolsnes

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October 2012
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors&#32; according to your reverts at Troy Kelley. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. While edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, breaking the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 15:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


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 * Hi there. The guidelines you are talking about are at Conflict of interest. Editing articles if you have a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged, and this is true for all kinds of conflicts of interest, not just financial ones. In particular, if Mmillerfsm08 is correct in his accusation that information was added to the Troy Kelley article by a rival political campaign, then that would also be a strong conflict of interest. By the way, you shouldn't speculate on the identity of editors who may wish their identities to remain private, per our policy on outing. Now, as for the article, my opinion as an uninvolved third party is that some of this information probably belongs in there in some form, but as it was it was basically an attack piece, with all negative information and no positive information. What the article needs now is basic biographical info like date of birth, education details, details of previous political campaigns, etc. Please bear in mind that we are writing a biography, and not an editorial. Once we have this kind of basic info we can think about carefully adding criticisms and controversies. I recommend that you read the neutral point of view policy, particularly the part on affording each aspect of the subject its due weight, and also the policy on biographies of living people; after this you should start a discussion on the article's talk page to try and get a consensus on what information should be included in the article. If there is a consensus to add anything, you can make a protected edit request and it will be added to the article. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Best — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 09:23, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm going to continue this conversation on the article talk page, as that seems the most appropriate place for it. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 09:29, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Mr. Stradivarius! Thank you for the good advice. The outing article mentions that I should send COI information privately, but I'm unaware how to do that. But I don't think that's necessary. Besides, I'd like to see basic uncontested biographical information added. I'll consider adding some suggestions to the talk page. And I'll move the other parts of this conversation there. Should I remove that part of my previous post from this talk page to avoid violating the outing policy? Mjolsnes (talk) 09:49, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I've removed it for you, and hidden the revisions from the edit history. On reflection I thought it was better to err on the side of caution. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 14:21, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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