User talk:JBDouglas

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Thank you. TEDickey (talk) 23:17, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did with this edit to Yale University. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. CommanderWaterford (talk) 23:25, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Edits to American universities

I noticed you have edited several American university articles to add two categories about slave owners and traders. It seems that each of those edits has been reverted by several different editors. Such edits are assumed to be good faith edits, but given the uniform reversions, you must establish consensus on the respective talk pages if you wish to re-add them. My own word of advice is that I think you will have a hard time doing so, since those categories do not accurately apply to the pages you added them to. Ergo Sum 23:38, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

These categories do accurately apply to these pages, I just looked 'em up. They are reflected in current research and acknowledgments by the institutions themselves. I plan to build sources and cite them for the other pages, but this does not seem necessary for the Washington and Lee University page as the information is already sourced in the archived version of source 13 on the page. Please consult this source. It reflects the accuracy of my categorizations for this article. If you have any other tips for how to cite sources, I'd appreciate them, but these are good faith edits, accurate edits, not vandalism or inaccuracies in any way. Please stop reverting them for the Washington and Lee page for now (still working on checking/citing sources for others), there is no basis for doing so except obfuscating the truth, which I'm sure is not your intent as an editor. JBDouglas (talk) 00:05, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

I am not an expert on Washington and Lee and will leave it to the other regular editors of that page who you may engage with to hash out the merits of the claim. Speaking strictly as an admin, I encourage you to read WP:3RR, which explains that it constitutes edit warring to revert material 3 times on one page within 24 hours. If you do so again on that page, you will be temporarily blocked; please consider this a final warning. Please establish consensus on the article's talk page before you make the same edit. Uncontroversial edits do not require consensus in advance, but evidently, this edit is not uncontroversial. Ergo Sum 00:23, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, you may be blocked from editing. TEDickey (talk) 00:20, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

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Happy editing! Ergo Sum 00:24, 19 March 2021 (UTC)