User talk:Pla-tonic

April 2017
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Greece, you may be blocked from editing. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:18, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Greece shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. 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 your 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. Dr.  K.  04:55, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Greece. Dr.  K.  04:55, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Your repeated edits to Greece
Since you are a new editor, perhaps you are not yet familiar with edit summaries? When I last reverted you, my edit summary said This is not the "Metropolitan area population", but the "Functional urban area population", as given by the source. I will try to explain in more detail: The number 260,308 you want to include in the table, is the (correct) population number of the metropolitan area of Patra, according to Greek statistics. But what is shown in this table is something else. It is the "Functional urban area" as defined by Eurostat. You can read about the concept here. The source for the table you can see here. You will see that none of the numbers for the Greek cities are the same as in Greek statistics, because they measure something different. The number for Patra is 217,555, and this is the number we have to give in this table.

It would be best for you if you revert your own edit before anyone else does, since you are on the brink of being blocked for edit warring. Regards! --T*U (talk) 18:56, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Your edits at Greece
This is my final attempt at getting you to discuss what you're trying to do here. Please understand that data in Wikipedia articles need to be consistent with the sources we cite. The table you are trying to change has a source, from Eurostat. It says the population of Patras as a "functional urban area" was 217,555 in 2011. You may well have some reasons for believing that there should be a larger number, but that is of no importance; as long as we are citing that source, the article needs to say whatever that source says; everything else would amount to lying to our readers. That's why I am going to block you if you continue making that edit. If you think the figures should be different, you must cite a source supporting your new figures, and show how it can be reconciled with the data we have.

This is the policy of this place. Please acknowledge you have read and understood this message here before you make any further edits on Wikipedia, and provide an explanation and citation to a proper source on the article's talkpage before you attempt to make any further edits to that article. If you fail to comply, you will be blocked without further warning. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

April 2017
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for disruptive editing and edit-warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:16, 23 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Since you evaded this block by editing logged-out, through, continuing the same kinds of edits as before, I am lengthening the block on this account by anohter day. Do not do this. If you try it again, this block will be lengthened further, any further IP you use will be blocked likewise, and/or the articles you try to edit will be protected. If you want to continue contributing to Wikipedia, you need to start to talk, now. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC)