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Your submission at Articles for creation: Florence Morse Kingsley (April 21)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Florence Morse Kingsley has been accepted

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File permission problem with File:Florence Morse Kingsley.jpg

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August 2016

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Brecksville, Ohio. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Unsolicited advice

When you brought your concerns about this article to WP:EAR, I advised that if you are having difficulty with an editor or seem to be misunderstanding one another, you should raise the issue at the article Talk page to sort it out. See here. I would like to reiterate that advice - repeatedly reverting to your preferred version, and then complaining to administrators when your changes are again removed, will not be effective and indeed may wind up with you blocked and unable to edit at all. Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions. JohnInDC (talk) 17:32, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Further advice is found just FYI in case you didn't see it. Cheers, _Muffled ^Pocketed

Followup

Hey, Sfo. I know you've spent a lot of time on Brecksville and Broadview, and understand that it must be frustrating when editors who don't know anything about the towns come in and start chopping away at what you've done. I want to explain what's happening, and how you might better deal with it going forward. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and tries to present information in a neutral and informative way. Wikipedia, and the articles within it, are not a tourist guide, Facebook page or any other kind of promotional vehicle. Brecksville may be a great place to live and work and raise a family, but Wikipedia is not the place to tell people that. Both Brecksville and Broadview were written in a way that sounded truly promotional, touting the convenience of the place, and great nearby activities, and all the rest - things that might be useful to know if you're thinking about moving to Brecksville, but not, really, about "Brecksville" itself. The problems in the article were abundantly clear to several experienced Wikipedia editors (including me), and we have made edits to bring them more in line with the neutral point of view that is supposed to characterize the articles here.

When one editor disagrees with edits made by another, they need to work it out on the article Talk page. Talk it out, see if a consensus among editors emerges, and proceed based on the consensus. That's how things are done, need to be done. It won't work to just restore the material you want, again and again - that's called "edit warring" and will get you blocked if you keep it up. You need to discuss, and try and reach consensus, and then follow consensus. What you don't do is bypass the Talk page altogether and report the other editors to the 3RR page or to Editor Assistance - indeed rather than help your cause it will make it worse for you. Indeed the fact that you were edit warring, then reporting other editors, all without having made a single edit to the article Talk page, brought you perilously close to getting blocked, rather than solving the problem you perceived.

I am not trying to be a jerk by laying this all out for you but rather hoping you'll read it and take it to heart, and work at becoming a good editor here. At the top of this Talk page are several links to basic Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and I strongly recommend you have a look at them to see what I'm talking about (and to persuade you that I'm not making any of this up). I hope this is helpful, and if you have any questions, let me know and I'll see if I can answer them. JohnInDC (talk) 00:18, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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Brecksville (what else ;-))

Have you considered trying to make it a Wikipedia:Good article? Just a thought. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:42, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hey, please slow down. Make a couple edits with actual reliable sources. You can't cite Wikipedia as a source; and you can't just cite a search engine result that turned up in a Bing or Google search. If the search actually turns up a WP:RS, you can cite that; but a search itself is not a source. TJRC (talk) 21:17, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

You've come a long way, making a lot of good edits sourcing this, especially in the "notable people." Good work. TJRC (talk) 18:41, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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