User talk:Paulmuniz

Welcome!

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Thanks

You're clearly an intelligent and well-read person. I don't want to sound patronising but this is a quick note of thanks regarding your efforts at Caste system of India and its talk page. You're pretty new here but are providing an excellent example of how people should approach contributing to Wikipedia. In particular, you are demonstrating a high degree of willingness to accept changes to your contributions and even outright (hopefully constructive!) criticism. As we are a collaborative exercise, that is a very useful attribute but is perhaps not surprisingly often lacking in new contributors.

Indian topics are a particularly awkward area and that is why the community found it necessary to permit the imposition of discretionary sanctions some years ago. We get a lot of arguments, a lot of cherry-picking of sources, a lot of plain unsourced material, edit warring, name-calling and the like. It gets to be pretty exhausting and, perhaps contradictorily, requires both a willingness to compromise and an understanding of when it is necessary to put your foot down. Not that I think you should be even attempting the latter at the moment: it can bring you a whole load of grief and, at least at the caste article, you've got plenty of more experienced people who can and will do that if needed.

Keep it up, please! - Sitush (talk) 07:23, 1 July 2015 (UTC)