User talk:Collinsej
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June 2023
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Hi Collinsej! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Violence against transgender people in the United States that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information.
The content you added has been removed as it was off-topic for the article and far from neutral in either tone or content. It is also very important to avoid editorialising and off-topic digressions when adding material to Wikipedia. If you are unsure whether content is suitable for inclusion you can always ask on the article's Talk page.
In addition, I have taken a look at some of your older edits. I'm not going to issue any formal warnings, as they would not be timely, but you really do need to lay off the tendency to see a chunk of content you don't like and just blank it out. You were lucky to avoid getting warnings for blanking. Please don't push that luck to breaking point. --DanielRigal (talk) 18:01, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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