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Your controversial edits on English Democrats edit
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to English Democrats, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. LjL (talk) 17:56, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
When you find oneself in a hole -stop digging edit
Hi Mooregraham,
Think I understand what you mean as this party's position as nationalist yet, so were the National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus)! Do you want to be tainted by that brush? Drop it. Let the ED cohort speak for themselves and we will add any verifiable information that comes out of that. Currently, at lot of editors time is being wasted on article ED because Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a soapbox. --Aspro (talk) 00:06, 21 October 2015 (UTC)