User talk:SigGoddard

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Hello, SigGoddard, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! SigGoddard, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 23:08, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Domestic Violence Gender Bias

Thank you for your efforts in removing biased and inaccurate information from the Wikipedia article on domestic violence. I share your concerns about ideology being put before science and the issues of male victimization and false allegations consequently being downplayed to the detriment of victims. However, the way in which you have been deleting large sections of the article is more likely to get you banned from Wikipedia than to make a positive contribution to the cause. Generally, you're not allowed to remove sourced material or revert other people's changes more than three times in a 24-hour period. The best way for us to be effective in promoting balance and accuracy is by playing within the rules of the system rather than by needlessly picking battles with other users. I've made a significant number of changes over the past few months to the Wikipedia articles on domestic violence and rape with very little push-back because I've addressed these issues through serious scholarship. If the article cherry-picks the study or studies that use flawed research methodology to claim that DV is overwhelmingly male-on-female or driven by patriarchy, instead of simply deleting it, add a discussion of other research that has contradicted it and explain why other researchers consider that study that was there to begin with to be unreliable. Wikipedia has a pretty strict policy against original research, which for these purposes to include any drawing of conclusions from the research beyond what the researchers say. You need to cite everything that you say in a Wikipedia article.

If you're interested, I'd be happy to discuss with you further how we can work to improve the balance and accuracy on Wikipedia's presentation of these issues. Please don't hesitate to contact me via private email. DGAgainstDV (talk) 20:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Your edits at Domestic violence article

It is against Wikipedia rules to delete a large portion of sourced text just because you don't like it - WP:IDONTLIKE. You cannot simply chop out text from an article. If you want to make such dramatic changes, you have to discuss this on the talk page with the other editors, and seek consensus - WP:CONS. If you continue to remove the text by yourself, you will be reverted, and might also be blocked for breaking the rules of editing.2A02:2F0A:506F:FFFF:0:0:BC19:AC97 (talk) 21:21, 16 March 2014 (UTC)