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The Misplaced Pages tutorial is a good place to start learning about Misplaced Pages. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 15:19, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Our sourcing policy

is described at WP:VERIFY and WP:RS. It would be a good idea to read these before you add sources. And sources must be used for any material likely to be challenged. See also WP:NOR. Sources are usually not need in the WP:LEAD which is meant to be a summary of the article (and thus not a place for new material). That aside, we are a mainstream encyclopedia. Doug Weller talk 15:22, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Misplaced Pages, as you did at David Irving, you may be blocked from editing. and violating WP:NPOV Doug Weller talk 16:38, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Accusations of lying

You wrote "Although the court ruled against Irving it did not state that he was a 'racist' and 'anti-semite' this is a lie and has been removed." The High Court Judge explicitly stated that "he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist and that he associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism." He also wrote "Irving is anti-Semitic. His words are directed against Jews, either individually or collectively, in the sense that they are by turn hostile, critical, offensive and derisory in their references to Semitic people, their characteristics and appearances ... Irving has made claims that the Jews deserve to be disliked; that they brought the Holocaust on themselves. He speaks regularly at political or quasi-political meetings in Germany, the United States, Canada and the New World. The content of his speeches and interviews often displays a distinctly pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish bias."

I don't see the lie. I see an editor ignoring what the sources say and trying to force in their own pov. Doug Weller talk 16:41, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

Your recent editing history at Jürgen Graf shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Doug Weller talk 16:42, 23 February 2016 (UTC)