User talk:OA2020

A lengthy welcome
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I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 23:29, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Osteopathy has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 00:02, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ClueBot NG makes very few mistakes, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made was constructive, please read about it, [ report it here], remove this message from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this message: Osteopathy was changed by OA2020 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.862609 on 2020-08-26T00:02:47+00:00

Conflict of interest
Please be aware of WP:COI and make a relevant declaration if necessary. Does "OA" in your username stand for Osteopathy Australia? Alexbrn (talk) 01:00, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

thanks, will do and assumed citing external publications or government resources would demonstrate accuracy over marketing  OA2020 (talk) 01:23, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Right, you need to make a declaration on your user page. You should also stop editing the article per WP:COI, and particularly should not be edit-warring and adding unverified content. You probably also need a different username per WP:ISU. Alexbrn (talk) 02:51, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Osteopathy; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing.You are repeatedly adding content which fails WP:V. Alexbrn (talk) 01:55, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.