User talk:Agrais

August 2016

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Charles J. Gradante, you may be blocked from editing. Melcous (talk) 12:00, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Charles J. Gradante while logged out. Making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 12:20, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, and thanks for your message on my talk page. The reason I reverted your changes was because of a variety of issues which cumulatively made it difficult to sort out the good from the unhelpful. Much of the information you added read to me as "peacock" and non-neutral. There was also plenty of commentary added that was not sourced, for one example the whole first paragraph under the heading Hennessee Group, and other information that was only sourced to sources related to the subject of the article. There was also content not about the subject of the article, for one example the comment on John Diebold being a visionary. Finally, much of the formatting did not follow the Manual of Style. Rather than such large edits, I'd suggest it would be better to slow down and either add things one at a time, making sure they are correctly formatted (including date styles for example) and properly referenced, or make suggestions on the article's talk page. That article does have a history of conflict of interest and promotional editing, which is perhaps another reason to be careful about making statements that sound non-encyclopaedic and more like a resume/advertorial. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 13:51, 23 August 2016 (UTC)