User talk:Otispit

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Hello, Otispit, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Stevens High School (South Dakota) have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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February 2018
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Stevens High School (South Dakota). Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and 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 Wikipedia. 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. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block.

''Look, I'm sorry you've been allowed to get away with this so long, but your actions here ( not mine) are in violation of policy. This article does not belong to you, it is not for the school, and it needs to conform to policy. Your addition is written in promo tone. Pretty much, except for the most mundane content like the school's address and the principal, each and every fact in this article must be verifiable to independent sources. As this template clearly states, with policy citations, continuing to behave in the way you are behaving is going to get you blocked. This is the only article you've ever edited. I edit thousands of school articles and am one of the coordinators of the Wikiproject on school's. I do not want to see you blocked, but you do have to follow policy.'' John from Idegon (talk) 00:00, 5 February 2018 (UTC)