User talk:Royaloakinternet

December 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. While edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, breaking the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you.--Arxiloxos (talk) 07:30, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for writing back. Please understand that the function of Wikipedia is not for editors to make their own comments and conclusions about subjects (even on a minor point like this one) but rather to report what reliable sources say about them. In this case, it appears to me--and apparently to another editor as well--that whether "NU" is a "semantically correct" abbreviation is not an issue discussed in cited sources, and moreover it isn't obviously relevant. Our job is not to tell readers our opinion of which abbreviations are more "correct", but rather which ones are actually used in practice. Please take a look at the page Wikipedia:No original research for further explanation of Wikipedia's function.

You are welcome to seek other opinions. If you'd like to pursue this, the best place to do it would be in a new thread at the bottom of the article's talk page, Talk:University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Regards, --Arxiloxos (talk) 08:03, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]