User talk:78.1.5.61
August 2018
Hello, I'm Y000mtah. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Google Maps have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Y000mtah (talk) 17:41, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
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What? They did not appear constructive? I say they were. It's a true that Google Maps are very bad and inaccurate. Look at Greenland here- just a look at a sharpy straight coastlines or weird names should know you I've got true. Thanks. 78.1.5.61 (talk) 17:46, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- 78.1.5.61, this is probably what should have been used as a talk page "warning":
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Repeated non-constructive edits
Just because your belief in Google Maps's inaccuracy is supported by evidence doesn't mean it can be introduced in a nonconstructive way. If you were, perhaps, to dig up a few essays from trustworthy sources discussing its inaccuracy, create a new section on the article, and provide a well-written summary of the entire affair, your edits would surely stick. However, introducing random sentences, at random locations in the article, about its inaccuracy adds nothing at all to the article, and serves only to destroy well-written paragraphs while replacing them with nothing. If you don't feel up to this, flag the article as incomplete and wait for someone else to come clean it up, but don't just violate every rule of the community out of a need to prove a point. 81.129.82.170 (talk) 12:52, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
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