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December 2014

Hello, I'm McGeddon. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Corruption in India without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. If a reference no longer works, it can often be replaced with an archived link to archive.org. If an organisation has been disbanded, it can be written about in the past tense. McGeddon (talk) 09:28, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You cut 17k of text with the edit summary "trim and copyedit", I didn't understand why it was being "trimmed".

I didn't revert your edits wholesale, I toned down the Right to Information Act section, fixed the dead links to use archive.org, rewrote some content in past tense and agreed with the cutting of promotional links. The dead link reference, in this case, was not a page that had never existed and could never be checked, it was a page that existed until recently - it's possible to access it through an archive.org link. --McGeddon (talk) 10:43, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, you're right, it was 1.7k. It's still unclear why this was a "trim" when it removed what seemed like useful information, some of it sourced. Is the India Against Corruption material incorrect? Why does ASTRA not belong in the list? --McGeddon (talk) 10:56, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at India Against Corruption 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 get 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. Sitush (talk) 09:28, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are numerous transliterations of Hindi etc names. Please leave the caption etc alone because the image is quite clearly of Arvind Kejriwal and we use that common spelling. I must also ask whether you are familiar with WP:SOCK? Some of your contributions look to be rather familiar. - Sitush (talk) 09:30, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]