User talk:Shortsmulvaney

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Happy editing! Andre🚐 01:58, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

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You shouldn't call it vandalism if people in good faith remove your changes. WP:AGF WP:VANDALISM. In this case there were legitimate reasons which you have addressed. Andre🚐 02:59, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

There is every reason to believe the person is removing these changes for arbitrary political reasons that serve the subject of the page. The use of primary sources was correct by the strictest interpretation of Wikipedia's guidance, and this is the third time the candidate's own statements on her official site labeled "issues" have been deleted from a Wikipedia section entitled "political positions." How is this not vandalism, rather than editing the section or adding one or two references in addition to the primary source? That's been down, now we'll see how quickly they delete the page again. Shortsmulvaney (talk) 03:09, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

In any case, thank you, Andre. It's just frusturating. Shortsmulvaney (talk) 03:10, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

You can view the page history and see the usernames of the people editing. One such person who reverted you for quoting the campaign site instead of a source like NYT, is a senior administrator, Muboshgu. I'm sure he will not revert you if you follow policies and guidelines to adequately cover the material with secondary reliable sources. At any rate, the other times, I doubt were vandalism either, but people who had a certain opinion on the weight or relevance of the information. You can dig through the history and find out, and you can start a discussion on the talk page if you think they were mistaken in their interpretations. But it's considered impolite to accuse vandalism when the reason was legitimate. Do some reading on the policy pages. I'll give you another welcome message that has more links that might be helpful:

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Thank you very much. I was being too hasty. I read up on the editor and he's legit and extremely well respected. Shortsmulvaney (talk) 03:24, 1 September 2022 (UTC)