User talk:Ardbia

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Michael O'Flaherty[edit]

You added a long quotation to the Michael O'Flaherty article (without providing an edit summary, so it's not clear why you did), and your edit was reverted, by me, with the rationale that the quote did not add to the understanding of the subject. Again, without edit summary explaining why, you restored the quote. First, I will point out that Wikipedia has a rule of collaboration called bold, revert, discuss. You boldly edited the article. Excellent! I disagreed and reverted your addition, providing my rationale as my edit summary. Your next step should have been to discuss the change in order to build consensus for it. You didn't do that, but OK, we're now at the discussion phase anyway. I'd like to ask you what this quote adds to the article? It is a long quote describing O'Flaherty's own opinions about his work. The quote does not clarify the work that O'Flaherty did, nor does it clarify the impact of the work, it merely presents his own views of the work. To my mind, it does not add to the article at all. I'd like to hear your views on why you feel that it does. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:43, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]