User talk:Shareride

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Global Warming
Per WP:BRD, when other editors contest your change, instead of reinstating them you should open a discussion on the article's talk page and form consensus (WP:CONSENSUS). Also note that the topic is covered by special discretionary sanctions WP:ARBCC so editing on this topic one should be extra-careful to avoid disruptive editing. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  - 04:37, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Please check the first reference on a line you change instead of putting 'not backed' on a comment and causing work for other editors. You don't even have to read the paper, the summary is quite enough. Dmcq (talk) 22:21, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

DS alert climate change
NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:45, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Using citation needed
You seem to be deleting statements because you didn't immediately find the reference supporting them. Could I point you at Citation needed which explains how you should deal with statements you think need a citation. You should not immediately delete statements simply because they are not cited, only statements that you hve some reason to think are dubious or are just totally unneeded and irrelevant should be just removed without bothering to leave a note for others to try and find a citation first. Dmcq (talk) 08:33, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Not to mention actually reading the various references cited in the paragraph to make sure the statement you're concerned about isn't covered. I think you're batting average is zero at the moment. It sometimes happens that a cite appears at the end of the sentence instead of immediately after a particular word or phrase of interest.  Also sometimes happens that there is a lot of text supported by a cite, so the  cite might not appear for two (or three) sentences.  And then there is the possibility that over the years, some other editor inserts text that pushes the citation further down the paragraph from the statement of interest.  So its good practice to study all the references in a paragraph before concluding some word, phrase, or point is completely without WP:Verification.  If you do turn up examples of the sort of things I described myself and other regular eds will be happy to have that called out so we can improve the referencing by working together. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:07, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

You completely removed 'The world public, or at least people in economically advanced regions, became broadly aware of the global warming problem in the late 1980s.' because you believe that 'or at least people in economically advanced regions' is not supported. Please read WP:Citation needed. Do you believe that is debatable? I can't see that it would be debatable. Is it unneeded? I could agree with that as a reason to remove it, so that phrase could be removed. However you also removed 'The world public became broadly aware of the global warming problem in the late 1980s' and that was not in dispute, it was cited and it was a necessary part of the sense of what is being talked about. Could you be more careful please before deleting cited statements. Dmcq (talk) 10:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

And by the way on the bit you deleted the citation says 'This essay deals mainly with the United States, but until the late 1990s opinions were generally similar in other industrialized nations' Dmcq (talk) 10:16, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * then the rest should be about opinion in those countries without implying he opinion is worldwide .NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:32, 11 July 2017 (UTC)