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Discouraged

Re: "I can't emphasize enough how demoralizing it is to put in the hard work to both a) find and cite sources and b) also create a section on the talk page where I explain my edits, only to have some editor undo all of my hard work with a single click. Especially if that editor offers no explanation or comments to the talk page, and/or reveals he didn't even bother to read the source."

I just want to say that I am sorry that you had such a negative experience. I was a couple of months in when I ran into my first "difficult" editor.

I know that this isn't much help, but here is what it looks like to someone who has been around a while; when I run into a situation like this, I follow the steps of Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, and either the difficult editor backs off or gets blocked, at which point I grab my original edit from the history and put it in the article. What used to be a major annoyance is now a lot like swatting a fly. I do hope you stick around and give Wikipedia another try. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:27, 5 June 2012 (UTC)