User talk:Alan T. Baumler

January 2020

Hello, I'm Donald Albury. I noticed that you recently removed content from Bahamian Americans without adequately 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; the removed content has been restored. 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. Thanks. Donald Albury 16:15, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted you again because you deleted a well-formed citation without any explanation. If you have a problem with the cited source, please discuss it on Talk:Bahamian Americans. - Donald Albury 23:59, 19 January 2020 (UTC) - edited (removed hyphen in "Bahamian American") - 14:18, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the citation to the book by Viele that you have repreatedly deleted without explanation. Please understand that if you delete that citation again without prior discussion and consensus on Talk:Bahamian American, I will regard such deletion as vandalism. While editors are encouraged to be bold when editing, collaboration is also important, and any edit that is reverted in good faith needs to be discussed on the article talk page before reinstating it (see WP:BRD). Failure to respond appropriately to concerns expressed about edits may be regarded as a behavioral problem. I have also edited some of the material you have added to bring it more closely in line with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. The MOS is large, and even after 14 years editing I have to search out details when formatting edits. One point I will make, which is not a rule, but more of a custom, is that if a cited source covers all the material in a paragraph, the citation needs to be used only once, at the end of the paragraph. - Donald Albury 14:18, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]