AnglicanNights
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Hi, this is my talk page — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnglicanNights (talk • contribs) 1:49, August 30, 2020 (UTC)
Cuba edit
Welcome to Wikipedia, AnglicanNights! And thanks for your contribution at Cuba restoring some sourced demographic information. Just one caveat: in your edit summary, you said: "Restored well sourced data removed during edit war". You were right to restore that information, but for the wrong reason. There was no edit war at Cuba wrt to this information that I am aware of, and I've been looking at the history going back a long way. An edit war is against wikipedia policy (see WP:EDIT WAR), and if there *had* been an edit war, you would be simply making it worse by restoring that information, and could possibly be subjecting yourself to sanctions. Thankfully, there was no such edit war, so restoring the good content is just fine, and improves the article. What you probably mistook in the article history for an "edit war", is actually removals of edits by a banned sock, and is *according* to Wikipedia policy; namely WP:BLOCKEVASION. That policy notwithstanding, as long as you are making good-faith edits to improve the article, such as you did recently, you are free to restore well-sourced information that improves the article and is in line with other Wikipedia policies (such as WP:NPOV), as long as you avoid doing it as a WP:PROXY of a blocked user. So, tl;dr—your edit was fine, the edit summary was not; next time, if you just put a period after "Restored well sourced info", then you should be fine. Mathglot (talk) 21:24, 6 September 2020 (UTC)