User talk:Policing.the.police

I'm here, just not very active. But people are welcome to contact me. November 14, 2023

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Thanks Alf.laylah.wa.laylah. Much appreciated. Policing.the.police (talk) 02:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

October 2014
 Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Black Panther Party with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 04:22, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

From article talk page: Hi Donner, Thanks for your concern about removing content. Actually, the first four edits you undid were well sourced additions which did not remove content. The fifth edit removed redundancies and some additional detail that seemed unbalanced. I think if you look carefully you will agree that most of what I removed was redundant, and the remainder unbalanced excessive detail for this article (i.e. why so many details about Robert Williams, but none about Malcolm X, Fanon, or more about Donald Warden, the AAA, SSAC, RAM, the Poverty Program, and Carmichael's national efforts, which are given quite extensive treatment in the memoirs and the histories. If you -- or anyone else for that matter -- feels any of this deleted content is important to re-incorporate, by all means let's discuss it in detail. Policing.the.police (talk) 05:19, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree. I did not look at it carefully enough. I only looked at the last edit, and not carefully enough to see it was removing redundancy. I thank you for your explanation and I am glad that you went ahead and improved the article. I am sorry I got in the way. I deleted the mistaken notice above in the manner prescribed by the guidelines. Donner60 (talk) 08:05, 2 October 2014 (UTC)