User talk:Rheton

February 2013

Hello, I'm Escape Orbit. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Brigantes, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 22:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you are in the wrong here. Your addition is uncited and other editors are right to ask you to cite it. This is a key policy of Wikipedia. You aren't providing any evidence to demonstrate that the Slovene words have anything at all to do with the etymology of "Brigantes". Providing links to other Wikipedia articles are not equal to providing cites.

If you are convinced that what you are adding is correct, then please discuss it on the talk page first and establish consensus about it. But you will find that no-one is going to be convinced until you provide cites from reliable sources. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 22:14, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Brigantes. 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.

Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. joe•roe^t•c 09:33, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to the problems mentioned above, there is also the fact that much of your editing is not in coherent English. In fact, every one of your edits in which you have added content has contained at least some content which, although written in English words, does not use English syntax. In one or two cases your writing is so unlike English that I am not sure what you mean. In talk page comments, poor English can be accepted as long as the meaning is reasonably clear, but for publication in the encyclopaedia, such failed attempts to write English are not acceptable. You may well be better off contributing to Wikipedia in a language in which you are more competent. A complete list of Wikipedias is here. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:31, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]