User talk:Jacksondfuller

January 2017

Hello, I'm Oshwah. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Education in China seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:19, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jacksondfuller. It's quite OK to be WP:BOLD and try and improve articles, and in fact doing so is actually encouraged. However, when another editor reverts one of your edits, typically the recommended thing to do is to follow the Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. Unless the removal was an obvious case of vandalism, you should not simply revert the reverted edit simply because such a thing can quickly deteriorate into edit warring which is not a good way to try and resolve a content dispute. Since you are the editor who feels this content should be included in the article, the thing to do would be to start a discussion about it at Talk:Education in China and seek a consensus for its inclusion. Wikipedia article content is pretty much determined by consensus (even a silent consensus), unless there is a clear policy/guideline reason which requires a more immediate response. If you decide to post something on the article talk page, you should try and follow Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines and try to show how the content is in accordance with relevant policies/guidelines such as Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (particularly "Due and undue weight"), etc. Stick to discussing the content of the edit and try and avoid personalizing things by commenting on other editors. Another advantage of discussing things on the article's talk page (instead of an individual user's talk page) is that will give other editors interested in the subject who just might be watching the page a chance to comment and possibly offer suggestions on how to resolve the dispute. It's also quite possible that someone will point out that there exists another more appropriate article where the content can be added.

Finally, a bit of a geeky technical discussion. The purpose of Template:Main article is to create an internal link (technically a hatnote) to other relevant Wikipedia pages/articles, and the template will not work with urls to external websites. If you want to cite something found on another website as a reliable source in support of some article content, then there are a few different ways to do that. You can find out more at Help:Referencing for beginners. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:09, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]