User talk:Ilovenc123

April 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to North Carolina, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: North Carolina was changed by Ilovenc123 (u) (t) replacing entire content with something else on 2009-04-05T19:07:51+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 19:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page North Carolina. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Alansohn (talk) 19:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

This edit included a change that changed the word "rural" to "urban" in the sentence "During the antebellum period North Carolina was an overwhelmingly rural state, even by Southern standards.", a clear falsity among other more benign changes. I stand by the vandalism warning that was left here. Your other edits are only worse. Alansohn (talk) 21:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

But

My other edits were a mistake that I did not mean to make. North Carolina is a very urban state and I thought the article was wrong -- what about cities like Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh? ARE THOSE RURAL??????? I WANT THIS WARNING CORRECTED. Ilovenc123 (talk) 21:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

The paragraph you changed was about North Carolina before the Civil War. The paragraph continues as :In 1860 only one North Carolina town, the port city of Wilmington, had a population of more than 10,000. Raleigh, the state capital, had barely more than 5,000 residents." That North Carolina has urbanized since has nothing to do with the change you made. While the other changes in the article did no harm, the change you made in this paragraph was factually incorrect. If you do have an interest in making constructive edits in the future to avoid a block, you will need to be very careful to make edits that make articles better. Let the warning I left serve as a reminder to work constructively. Alansohn (talk) 22:17, 5 April 2009 (UTC)