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September 2020

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to England, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mutt Lunker (talk) 16:43, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Mutt, I do indeed believe you are making errors by reverting my edits. My edits are in line with historical and statistical truth and their removal is leading me to think that, yet again, wikipedia is less concerned with factual truth than it is with the current political, post-truth, climate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deanpaul545 (talk • contribs)

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:06, 14 September 2020 (UTC)(UTC)

Wikipedia is a co-operative effort. However convinced you are, do not war, respect WP:BRD and if you believe you have a strong case to make, you should have no difficulty convincing your fellow editors on the talk pages. Carry on in this manner and tolerance for your behaviour will wear thin quickly. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:02, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure how much more convincing the facts need to be. These edits are not intended to cause confusion, disruption, or inaccuracy and I fail to understand how they have been interpreted as such. You say I shouldn't have difficulty in convincing people, however, this entire dialogue shows that to be untrue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deanpaul545 (talk • contribs)

The dialogue here is solely about your behaviour being disruptive. The debate about matters of fact isn't happening because you haven't opened it at the article's talk page. Please self-revert there - you may escape a block for breaking WP:3RR if you do so - and make your case at talk. Please sign your posts. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:22, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Hilda of Whitby.jpg

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