User talk:98.25.242.230

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[edit] March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Wikipedia. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 06:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to United Church of Christ, without explaining the valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. You removed clarification about the difference between the UCC and the Churches of Christ without explanation. If you feel this change is warranted, please provide several reliable sources on the talk page with your explanation. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 04:48, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

[edit] Edit wars, and why they are a bad thing

Wikipedia is a collaborative enterprise. So when you see that others disagree with your desired edits, as, for example, your recent edits at Churches of Christ, the best thing to do is to discuss them at the article's talk page, and work together to create a version that is in keeping with policies like the neutral point of view policy and the verifiability policy and is agreeable to as many people on all sides as possible. That's much better than just reverting each other's edits- no one can win at that, since it can go on indefinitely, and that's why Wikipedia has a rule forbidding edit-warring. Discussion is harder, but in the end, it leads to a better article- that's the whole theory behind Wikipedia. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 01:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)