User talk:Quarkgluonsoup
The Exodus
Please stop removing any mention of archaeology from the lead. You haven't justified not having archaeology in the lead and removing it is a violation of our NPOV policy - unless you really are suggesting that the view that there is no archaeological evidence isn't a significant view. So far as I can tell, no one but you is suggesting that the lead doesn't mention archaeology or trying to edit it to remove archaeology from the lead. Dougweller (talk) 17:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Hey Quark--at this point editing the lede won't do anything. You'll just get reverted, and even if you don't your version will just be overwritten with the version that attains consensus on talk. The discussion on talk is going to take some more time: try to be patient. – Lionel (talk) 00:57, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—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—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 06:42, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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I've started a discussion there about your edits. On another issue, I've reverted you at American Civil War - don't take this personally, but your edits made a hash of the references with a long column of red warning notices. Dougweller (talk) 11:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- And since you not only removed a huge amount of cited information, screwed up the article, and then performed the same edit again, I have reverted it and am formally warning you against doing it again. You must gain consensus before making controversial or contentious edits, especially ones that remove cited material. Thanks, Black Kite (talk) 16:01, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Quark: you make reasoned arguments and I believe that over time you will be able to persuade editors in the merit of your arguments. But you must start with the small issues first, the things that the majority can agree upon, and then propose more ambitious changes. You have to realize that Wikipedia moves at its own pace. However what does appear to be moving quickly is a growing consensus to kick you off WP permamently. That would be a shame. – Lionel (talk) 23:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
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, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Guerillero | My Talk 17:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Please note: If you continue to edit war and push an agenda, your next block will be indef. --Guerillero | My Talk 17:32, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Quarkgluonsoup (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
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Please see the comment by YT95 below. I have been in a long discussion on the talk page for about a month, but the other editors are simply reverting everything. The edit that resulted in this block was my restoration of an edit by another user, IZAK. I never violated 3rr, but rather was being bold as wikipedia policy says we are to be. Dougweller seems to have something against me. He is certainly moitoring my edits, since he reverted an entire series of (what he admits were good faith) edits to American Civil War and just so happened to appear on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Religion#Seven_Point_Counter_Proposal shortly after I made a couple comments. If you look at his history, his pattern is to revert good faith edits by a wide range of people in a wide range of topics. It is also excessive to threaten an indefinite block for someone who has never been blocked and whose only block resulted from two edits that reverted other reversions.
What this block was for, therefore, were two edits that restored a reverted good faith edit. That is too harsh (as YT95 says below)Quarkgluonsoup (talk) 18:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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At the very least you need to show willingness to accept that you were edit-warring, which you blatantly were over a period of a week. All I see below is denial. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:58, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
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- : Perhaps there is a history here I don't know about but this seems extremely harsh based on what I have read on the talk page. The article does seem a little bit one sided in it's presention. I'm certainly not bible literalist, my interest is Ancient Egypt, and the article does need some expansion to include the diversity of scholarly opinion that deals with any supposed arrival and sojourn prior to the claimed Exodus etc. The Exodus is not a binary Yes/no issue in any of the scholarly works I have read. Yt95 (talk) 17:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 18:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, this didn't save when I clicked save and I'd moved on. I did mention it elsewhere where you were editing. Dougweller (talk) 18:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Convenient. I couldn't contest the complaint since I had no warning. All in good faith though right?Quarkgluonsoup (talk) 18:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- And what can I say? Yes it was in good faith, but I don't expect you to grant me good faith, you haven't so far. I apologise, it wasn't deliberate, but you can and have appealed. Quark, you're a problem editor. I had a clear reason to revert you at American Civil War, you'd made a mess of the article. I wasn't taking a stand on the quality of the content because I was trying to show good faith. But others thought that your removal of so much information on slavery was not a good idea. I have Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion on my watchlist and Izaak's proposal got my attention. And you say my editing pattern "is to revert good faith edits by a wide range of people in a wide range of topics"? My, I hope you have a lot of diffs for that that you have examined to determine whether they were good reverts. And your restoration of Izak's stripping the edit of any mention of archaeology was simply a repeat of your earlier actions. I wasn't the first to revert his edit either, another editor did it the first time and you restored it twice. Dougweller (talk) 18:35, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- I am a problem editor how? I have received two complaints both from you. The first was over about 5 revisions I did over a week, while this was over two revisions. It is you who simply revert without engaging in constructive dialog.Quarkgluonsoup (talk) 18:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've had a look at the history of The Exodus, and the claim that you were only restoring IZAK's edit looks a little disingenuous, seeing as you had been edit-warring to remove the mention of archaeology from the lead for days prior to that - this was a week ago. As Lionel said, right at the top of this Talk page, "...at this point editing the lede won't do anything. You'll just get reverted, and even if you don't your version will just be overwritten with the version that attains consensus on talk. The discussion on talk is going to take some more time: try to be patient." You need to listen to that advice, agree to stop edit-warring, and agree to wait for the Talk page consensus. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:16, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Was I not restoring IZAK's edits? How is it disingenuous to restore the deleted edits of another editor? Because I made some other edits earlier?Quarkgluonsoup (talk) 19:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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- Draft page is now in your userspace at User:Quarkgluonsoup/The Exodus/Draft. NawlinWiki (talk) 19:55, 16 March 2012 (UTC)