User talk:Dembowow

Edit warring

Please note the following guidelines and policies:

WP:V and WP:NOR. You are supplying information that you are not verifying, and we're supposed to take your word for it that this term is in use.
WP:BRD. You were bold by adding your term; someone reverted; it is now incumbent upon you to discuss. This is how we deal with conflict here, we discuss it.
WP:EDITWAR. No one ever gets their way on Wikipedia by blindly fighting back against people who disagree with them.
WP:3RR. This is the most important for you right now. This states that no one may revert more than three times in a day. This is not an allowance, this is the hard limit. You have reverted twice. Yes, yes, I know, you will claim that it wasn't a true revert, but I have full confidence that whatever administrator reviews the case will see that you clearly ran afoul of the spirit of the rule, and act accordingly.

My suggestions: Do not revert again. Make a topic on the talk page to discuss this. And also, give up on it, because this addition will never happen. --Golbez (talk) 05:41, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

None of what you responded with on my talk page has anything to do with the policies and guidelines I outlined above. It doesn't matter how much you think using "American" for people from the United States is an injustice. This is about usage in the English language, and in that language, "American" is by far the top term used, and "United Statian" is not used by anyone but you. --Golbez (talk) 13:18, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say you invented it. I said no one is using it except for you. Just because a term exists on Wiktionary or Wikipedia (also, gonna need a location, because a google for ["united statian" wikipedia] brings up only your edit, so far as I can see) doesn't mean it gets top billing in every relevant article. Hell, a search for "united statian" brings up 8,000 results on Google, compared to the 834 million results for "American". That is not remotely a term on equal footing, and should not be treated as such. As for your needless insults, I'll ignore them. If you come anywhere close to accusing me of racism again, that will not be ignored. --Golbez (talk) 13:59, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hi, Dembowow. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. – S. Rich (talk) 06:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

United Statian

Hello Dembowow. Please do not mistake my edit to the Wikitionary entry for "United Statian" as an endorsement of your edit. I did it more for technical reasons. E.g., I did not want you using Wikitionary as an inline reference. So I changed it to an interwiki-link. So, the other editors who have reverted (removed) the entry are correct. The term is an awkward one at best, and not found in my Websters 11th edition Collegiate Dictionary. Since we use the English language in Wikipedia, and since the term is not in the English language, we leave it out. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 06:08, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

June 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would ask that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on User talk: Golbez. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. When you ask something like "are you racist", as you did here, you are not assuming good faith. Also your "question" can be seen as a personal attack. Thank you. – S. Rich (talk) 15:19, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]