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Thanks for your additions on English cars, and technologies. If you have any questions feel free to drop past my Talkpage. --Martyman-(talk) 20:42, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on 2025 New Orleans truck attack. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:28, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, DeFacto,

Please do not edit war over which categories this article belongs in. Start a discussion on the article talk page if one hasn't already begun. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz, BLP requires everything to be verifiable using quality sources, and WP:BLPRESTORE and WP:BLP3RR exempts attempts to enforce there requirements from 3RR. -- DeFacto (talk). 23:34, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz, do you agree with me that my edits weren't edit warring, they were following Wiki BLP policy? -- DeFacto (talk). 09:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Re special:diff/1267749415: There is nothing wrong with linking to a former name, especially when this was the name in use at the time of the cited piece. Paradoctor (talk) 14:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Paradoctor, didn't you notice that I corrected that edit in my next but one edit here - with the edit summary: corrected my mistake, it didn't change its name until the end of 2024? -- DeFacto (talk). 15:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently not. Kind of like you missed this one. Good thing both of us have WP:WIP to shield us, eh? ;) Paradoctor (talk) 15:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't miss it - it was my edit before the correction, that I alluded to above. I can't see any good reason to pipe to that redirect, especially when it's so cumbersomely disambiguated too. -- DeFacto (talk). 15:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]