User talk:Jlaforest

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June 2016

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Michigan, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 01:19, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

3RR warning

Your recent editing history at Michigan 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 are 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. JohnInDC (talk) 01:42, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

I've tried to engage you in discussion on this issue but you seem determined to ignore my efforts. Please address my concerns at the Michigan Talk page. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 01:43, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

To convince you of my good faith (and to counter your accusation of "ignorance", please see WP:NPA and WP:Civil by the way), I've tried to integrate your edits a bit more smoothly into the article, by removing some material that was plainly redundant of existing information, moving one of your sources to the location of that material, and then moving the balance of the material you added to a more suitable spot. If you are unhappy with this then take it to the article Talk page and explain why what I did doesn't make sense. Don't just put it back the way you want it. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 02:04, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

I agree with the changes User:JohnInDC made. He preserved much of your material but moved it to more appropriate locations in the article. Your restoration of the material the way you originally inserted it particularly without attempting to reach a consensus on the talk page, is disruptive and edit warring. I have undone it. Meters (talk) 02:32, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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