User talk:Gold Paperclip

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Moved your draft

I have moved your draft article to User:Gold Paperclip/John Frieda draft. Drafts should be made on subpages of your user page, not on your talk page, which is intended for other users to communicate with you. Jason Quinn (talk) 00:49, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Reverting and discussing edits

Hi, Gold Paperclip. The reason why I removed the external link that you added to Morgellons is because it is to a journal article which doesn't meet Wikipedia's usual standards for reliability and quality when writing about medical topics. (It was actually another editor who pointed this out on the article's talk page; see Talk:Morgellons#Recent external references edit- inappropriate.)

In general, we try to avoid the use of individual primary studies, especially where they contradict the consensus medical literature. See also Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) for further guidelines.

Going forward, please also remember to use edit summaries if you do revert another editor's changes, and to check the article history and talk page to see if your edits (or reverts of your edits) are being discussed. (Better yet, if you find your edits have been reverted, you can start a discussion yourself—WP:BRD is a good explanation of how the process usually should work.) TenOfAllTrades(talk) 14:48, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

July 2015

Your recent editing history at Morgellons shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's 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. See BRD for 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 your 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. Dbrodbeck (talk) 21:02, 16 July 2015 (UTC)