User talk:UsefulTrivia

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 * Welcome to Wikipedia. For the way we work, read WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. In summary, if you see a change that you think would improve the encyclopedia, be BOLD and make it; but if it is then reverted, do not make it again (which could lead to an edit war), but discuss it on the article talk page and try to reach WP:Consensus with other editors ("editor" means just the same as "user" - there is no separate class of "editors"). If you cannot reach consensus, there are processes for WP:Dispute resolution.


 * You have been bold and made a change, good; it has been reverted, so now it is time to discuss. The best place for that is the article talk page at Talk:Southern Gospel, so that other interested users are likely to see it and may join in. Explain your position briefly there; the other user will probably have the page watchlisted, so that they will be aware of your edit, but you could drop a note on their user talk page. To do that, click on "talk" after the name in the signature and then on "New section" to add a new message in the correct postion at the bottom of the talk page.


 * Another useful policy page to read is WP:No original research. You need to take care that anything you add is based on reliable sources, and is not just your own opinion.


 * Please also note the important guidelines WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA. A golden rule is: comment on content, not on the contributor. "You must be the opinionated contributor... " etc. is not the best way to start a dialogue. JohnCD (talk) 11:49, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, JohnCD, for your help. I will try to use what you have told me. I appreciate your willingness to offer advice.UsefulTrivia (talk) 14:08, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Southern Gospel, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ''I realize you are new, but your last series of edits on the above talk page has removed comments from other editors. You are welcome to reformat of refine your own comments, but it is best to do that by striking them by bracketing the comment you wish to retract between and. Under no circumstances should you ever change or remove another's comments. Thanks.'' John from Idegon (talk) 20:31, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

John from Idegon: After checking to see what you were talking about,   I am pretty sure that no comments were ever actually deleted, but if by chance anything at all was, I cannot find it while looking at the changes or history of "Southern Gospel Talk." I wonder what your message was truly about? Once more, I want to be quick to apologize, but in retrospect, I am pretty sure if something got deleted, I was completely unaware of it, and your comments toward me seemed almost censorious, like I had some sort of nefarious motive. I noticed also that you commented in a not-so-civil way on Southern Gospel: Talk, after a comment of mine got saved in the wrong section by mistake, mocking me, as if I were "yelling at a wall?" What is your deal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BITE I assure you that if I was responsible for something not going right, I did not intend to edit anyone else's comments on a talk page, (on which there has been no "talk" for FOUR YEARS, until I posted a suggestion on it recently.) What purpose would such a practice serve anyway? Would they not be able to see from the "History" that their words had been edited? I sincerely hope to learn and follow all of Wikipedia's rules, if given the chance.UsefulTrivia (talk) 07:28, 4 January 2014 (UTC)