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Hello

I have anonymously edited a few Misplaced Pages articles over the past few months. Most recently I made some major changes to the article on Baptists. I registered this evening and hope to make some further refinements to that article, and maybe some others, in the future. Mark Osgatharp 07:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Edits without consensus

Mark - your recent edits to Baptist introduce a POV that takes the article in a different direction than has been decided by consensus in the talk pages and in the long history of edits and reversions. Please refrain from making edits that assert only one perspective and make sweeping changes that haven't been discussed first. Thank you. HokieRNB 16:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Mark, thanks for your response. I do agree that Misplaced Pages editors need to be bold, and for the most part don't need permission to make edits. However, when an article such as Baptist has such a long history of refining and much discussion behind it, it does not serve the greater community to continue to assert one specific point of view. Consensus, in a general sense, is achieved when the maximum number of people agree with the process by which a decision was arrived at. Even if you hold a minority view (such as with the successionist view of Baptist origins), you can agree that the word "Baptist" includes more than that understanding and an encyclopedic article needs to reflect that. HokieRNB 21:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


Your recent edits

Thank you for experimenting with the page Baptist on Misplaced Pages. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Dfrg.msc 23:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but as evidenced by the diff: it did look like vandalism. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 01:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Of course Mark, I'm happy to explain. This is how it looked to be vandalism to me (I of course refer to Line: 201):
  • It was an un-sourced edit to an article which gets quite a lot of Vandalism
  • Your account name has less than 50 edits to it
  • You replaced a re-direct with "sodomy" which is a hit word on the vandalism filter
I apologize for any concern this has caused you. To improve my Vandalism fighting I showed the diff to another editor, he agreed that at first glance it did look like vandalism. Regards, Dfrg.msc 05:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Recent Edits

Hi Mark -- Some of your edits to Baptist and Baptist successionism over the last week or so have not always been as constructive as they might have been. It also appears that you might be editing from several IP addreses, but I could be wrong. I assume you mean well (as you should for everyone else), but please remember nobody owns any article and everything any of us do on Misplaced Pages is subject to the consensus of the editors. Please read WP:EL, WP:OWN, and WP:NPOV for more on where I and apparently other editors might think you went a little wrong. And please do not enter into EW|edit or reversion wars. Thank you. Novaseminary (talk) 17:59, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

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January 2010

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Baptist. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Suggest you request more comments to get the views of the wider community. NeilN 05:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Edit War on Baptist

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Your recent editing history at Baptist shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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 do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Novaseminary (talk) 20:13, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Please note that I have reported your edits to the Admin. Notice Board here.

Novaseminary (talk) 20:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)