User talk:Rootsie

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Hello, Rootsie, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 02:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your assistance request

Hello! I've left you a welcome template above, it contains links to some of our most important policies and guidelines. Hopefully they'll prove helpful to you as a reference.

To your specific question, we do indeed ask that all editors allow others to edit articles, and not attempt to own them. Unfortunately, sometimes this still does happen. However, sometimes people do disagree for good reason. I note that your first edits to this account were to request assistance, so I presume that the previous edits were made anonymously? This is fine of course, we've always allowed anonymous editing, but that being the case I can't look specifically at the edits in question. If you wish, I'd certainly be happy to look at the anonymous edits and comment more specifically on them. (This would reveal your IP address of course, so whether or not you wish to do that is up to you.) On the two you've made on this account, I do notice you haven't cited sources for the edits, and at least one of them is something that would require a source (stating that something is a "perennial favorite"). If that's your opinion, such an edit would violate our neutral point of view policy-we never editorialize or place our own conclusions or viewpoints into an article. On the other hand, if a reliable source has used that term ("perennial favorite"), it's certainly fine to put that in, attributing that statement to the source and citing it. (What you'd want to do is something to the effect of "The Somewhere Times stated that the show is a perennial favorite all across Canada.<ref>Doe, John. "Some shows remain popular throughout the years." ''The Somewhere Times''. January 2, 2003.</ref>.) If you attribute your edits to reliable sources, they're far less likely to be disputed. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 02:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} There is just such a problem with the article "Dog" I checked the revision history and noted that a couple of editors have rejected virtually every change, even minor. After I made a minor change correcting a grammatical error, I recieved a "vandalism" warning. I have noted that others have compalined of this as well. Onre person replaced a poor quality photo with a better one of the same subject, and another added a photo to an otherwise unillustrated subject. Both were accused of vandalism.

If this ownership is as bad as you say it is, reporting the problem to administrators at the administrator's incident noticeboard may be a good idea. (Remember to sign your post with ~~~~ if you do this.) --ais523 14:05, 24 May 2007 (U T C)