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July 2013

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Olympia, Washington. 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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1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
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Please check your facts before making baseless accusations (Was: 2012 Yunnan earthquakes)

In regards to your recent edit, please learn to check your facts before making baseless accusations of wrong doing. Misplaced Pages defines vandalism as "any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Misplaced Pages". If you check the effect of the edit that you question you will see the net result is to change the map displayed in the article's infobox from a close up of a single Chinese province to a map of the entire country. How does using a map that allows most English speaking readers to better understand the location of an event qualify as vandalism under Misplaced Pages's definition? Do you honestly believe that most visitors to the English language Misplaced Pages possess detailed knowledge of China's geography? It might also be useful if you determine who added the infobox to the article and see if that person has any problems with the change (hint, the addition occurred 3 minutes prior to the edit you have labelled as vandalism). Finally I would suggest you read essays such as Misplaced Pages:On assuming good faith, Misplaced Pages:Avoid the word "vandal", and Misplaced Pages:Don't template the regulars. The advice contained in these essays, and the other pages these essays link to, would help you avoid inappropriate actions such as the edit which prompted this message. --Allen3  19:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

1) The indisputable fact that it is a reduction of precision amounts to unexplained removal of content. 2) Yes, I cannot speak for the ignorance or cognizance of visitors to English-language Misplaced Pages, but one thing I am certain about is: in an equivalent article on an earthquake in the U.S., knowledge of the state, even if happens to be as unimportant as Missouri, is more often than not assumed. If you are from the U.S. and read international news outlets regularly, you should also know. This is unfair treatment, given China is, in terms of geographic area, equivalent to the U.S. 3) As I have alluded to in numerous edit summaries, to introduce a province every fucking time it is mentioned (yes, your switch of the pushpin map may be interpreted in that light) in a biographical, events, etc. article consumes far too much space and actually belittles the reader's knowledge. If the reader happens to not know, then a wikilink serves that purpose, and IMO, provides a greater incentive to look up information on one's own than stupidly blurting out, for example, "the explosion, which occurred in Northeast China's Jilin province, killed...". More importantly, making exceptions to this "introduce the province" rule that exists in most media sources for only Beijing and Shanghai: A) does little to improve readers' knowledge of Chinese geography. B) potentially casts other areas in an unimportant light. GotR 20:21, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

FYI

I noticed your recent back and forth with User:211oo1 on the Xinjiang article. The editor that reverted your edit, User:Sayonara101, has only three edits, and looks like a single-purpose account whose sole purpose was to add back the content that User:211oo1 created. Does this look like something for Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations? I assume the reversion was made in good faith, and I can understand his frustration with the human rights situation in Xinjiang which I sympathize with, but the circumstantial evidence raises red flags.--Ross Monroe (talk) 13:15, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

It doesn't hurt to open an SPI. GotR

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August 2013

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Mozarts 31st

Hi,

I was not engaged in 'drive by' tagging. As can be clearly seen the article is entirely based off one 48 year old book. That is not good enough and there has to be some more recent scholarship on the subject. The purpose of adding that tag was to alert readers (Just in case any of them could be bothered to contribute.) to that fact while I looked for more material to expand the article.Graham1973 (talk) 00:49, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

China provinces infobox

Hi Guardian of the Rings! I'm not always a fan of {{Infobox settlement}} but I think its use as part of Template:Infobox Province of China (PRC) makes it an improvement over the previous, customised template. The previous version did not include a field for population references, or for the area, and instead it transcluded a fixed list of statistics, which in some cases were several years out of date. Additionally it did not support the {{Coord}} system for geolocation, and the various official languages were awkwardly bunched up together (though I noticed that you tried to fix this). For these reasons, I think it's better to continue to develop the template as a customised wrapper. Cheers,--eh bien mon prince (talk) 08:33, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't think so. You see, {{Infobox U.S. state}} does not ascribe to {{Infobox settlement}} because they use Latitude and Longitude ranges, something we have no reason not to include for the PRC and will not fit in the template. {{Coord}} is not appropriate within the infobox for this reason. Secondly, {{Infobox settlement}}'s treatment of language transcriptions means that the one-character abbreviations are lumped together with the full native names, which is not ideal at all.

And you need to discuss on the template talk page first, instead of blindly reverting as if you had no functioning brain. GotR 13:37, 5 August 2013 (UTC)