OfficerManatee
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Welcome to WikiProject Firearms. I especially appreciate your recognition of the need to control commercial advertising. Please let me know if my experience can offer advice with Wikipedia formats or procedures. Thewellman (talk) 23:09, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you! I made note of the issue that I've noticed some particular articles seem to have problems with. I also seem to sense private entities are injecting material themselves, so active monitoring is certainly warranted.
- Your timing is actually convenient, there seems to be a problem user/IP: 223.17.88.249 (contribs) that continues to edit various small arms/military pages, much of which is reverted or corrected and I figured I'd refer it to someone more experienced to handle or escalate it. I recently reverted their contributions on .458 SOCOM as they added an entirely commercialized section for Ammo Types, and figured a more experienced editor for firearms could review my changes to see if it was proper.
- Secondly and probably more problematic is the seemingly constant contributions that IP makes to a wide array of other small arms and military/conflict pages; if my assumption is correct that most of their contributions need reverting, not sure how that is best handled but given how others have also added to its talk page, I assume I'm not the only one watching its activity.
- Thank you again for the warm welcome, I look forward to assisting in whatever way I can.
- OfficerManatee (talk) 00:03, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
- I see what you mean. I typically approach such edits with a two-phased approach, initially tagging the unsourced material like this;[citation needed] and giving the editor a chance to provide a source citation before later deleting the edit if no source citation is provided within a reasonable time frame. I hope this gives the editor more encouragement to conform to Wikipedia conventions rather than simply rejecting their efforts. This citation needed format alerts those reading the article in the meantime to the questionable validity of the material. (By the way, you may notice how I have used colons in this response, and edited your previous response, to indent successive elements of a talk page conversation.) Thank you for your efforts to keep Wikipedia articles from accumulating unsourced material. Thewellman (talk) 01:56, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
- Understandable, thank you for the insight. Also thanks for the tip on formatting, still learning all the markdown and procedures that follow. OfficerManatee (talk) 07:32, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
- I see what you mean. I typically approach such edits with a two-phased approach, initially tagging the unsourced material like this;[citation needed] and giving the editor a chance to provide a source citation before later deleting the edit if no source citation is provided within a reasonable time frame. I hope this gives the editor more encouragement to conform to Wikipedia conventions rather than simply rejecting their efforts. This citation needed format alerts those reading the article in the meantime to the questionable validity of the material. (By the way, you may notice how I have used colons in this response, and edited your previous response, to indent successive elements of a talk page conversation.) Thank you for your efforts to keep Wikipedia articles from accumulating unsourced material. Thewellman (talk) 01:56, 13 December 2020 (UTC)