What is it about hard work that is so despised within the Wikipedia community? I added to the evolution page, to make it about evolution rather than just about evolution through biological reproduction, and ONCE AGAIN, MY HARD WORK IS IMMEDIATELY DELETED!

Here are the first two paragraphs as I had corrected them...

Evolution in its broadest sense, is the accumulation of change. In this sense, anything in which changes accumulate, evolves. This is true of culture^[1], language^[2], computer software^[3][4], technology^[5], knowledge^[6][7], automation^[8], and so on. A quick web search for information about the evolution of any such thing should provide plenty of reference material.

Probably the most well known type of evolution, accumulation of hereditary modification^[9], also known as descent with modification, causes the accumulation of change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Such evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including the biodiversity of species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.^[10]

Notice that there is NOTHING off topic or off point, and I DID NOT NEGLECT TO INCLUDE REFERENCES!

Here is what it was reverted back to....

Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including the biodiversity of species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.^[10]

In my opinion, that constitutes VANDALISM! I can think of no other reason why anyone would HIDE THE DEFINITION OF EVOLUTION on a page ABOUT EVOLUTION!

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I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 01:05, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Because of your circumstances and the current state of your article, I've moved it to a subpage of your userpage here, so you have some time to work on it. I'm concerned it will be removed, and this way, you have more time to add needed sources to the article. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 17:13, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for trying to keep Wikipedia free of vandalism. However, one or more edits you labeled as vandalism, such as the edit at Evolution, are not considered vandalism under Wikipedia policy. Wikipedia has a stricter definition of the word "vandalism" than common usage, and mislabeling edits as vandalism can discourage editors. Please read Wikipedia:NOTVAND for more information on what is and is not considered vandalism. Also, go to the article's talk page (Talk:Evolution) and seek consensus for your changes -- that's the standard, not making wild accusation. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And seeing your post here, I have to point out WP:OWN and WP:Assume good faith to you. No editor owns their edits here, and you need to assume that editors have good reasons for doing what they do. If you don't want your edits to be revised, modified, or even removed or undone, you probably should not edit here. This is a collaborative project, not just your project. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:03, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How is any of this off point?

Evolution in its broadest sense, is the accumulation of change. In this sense, anything in which changes accumulate, evolves. This is true of culture^[11], language^[12], computer software^[13][14], technology^[15], knowledge^[16][17], automation^[18], and so on. A quick web search for information about the evolution of any such thing should provide plenty of reference material.

Probably the most well known type of evolution, accumulation of hereditary modification^[19], also known as descent with modification, causes the accumulation of change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Such evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including the biodiversity of species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.^[10]

That was removed, why?— Preceding unsigned comment added by DonaldKronos (talk • contribs)

New talk page posts go at the bottom of the section. Most of the material there has nothing to do with biological evolution. The intro summarizes the article, and the article in this case is only about biological evolution. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:10, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Evolution 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 get 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.

From the Dispute Resolution page... "When you find a passage in an article that is biased or inaccurate, improve it if you can; don't delete salvageable text. For example, if an article appears biased, add balancing material or make the wording more neutral. Include citations for any material you add. If you do not know how to fix a problem, ask for help on the talk page.

To help other editors understand the reasoning behind your edits, always explain your changes in the edit summary. If an edit is too complex to explain in an edit summary, or the change is contentious, add a section to the talk page that explains your rationale. Be prepared to justify your changes to other editors on the talk page. If you are reverted, continue to explain yourself; do not start an edit war." -- Why am I NEVER given such courtesy in here? Am I upset? YES! Should I be? I don't know... but I am! I feel like I am considered less than dirt in here. Should that not bother me? Okay, in this case... there was a message saying not to change the first paragraph without....whatever it was... but I did not notice it at the time, because I do no know of conventions for such things, and they are not obvious.... so I apologize to the community for NOT NOTICING what I should have noticed... but I'm STILL FRUSTRATED AS HELL!

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. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:15, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, read WP:Assume good faith and WP:OWN. We've explained how to go on about your edits, no one's punishing you for having made them, and you have every opportunity to get over it and find something productive to do instead of throwing a tantrum. If you keep taking every single reversion personally, call editors in good standing vandals for cleaning up your messes, and give a contrarian "nuh-uh!" to every attempt to explain what you need to do, you will wear out your welcome and you will not last for much longer. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:31, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not attack other editors, as you did on Talk:Evolution. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Calling the people who have reverted you vandals when their edits do not meet the site's definition of vandalism and were made in good faith is considered a personal attack. Seriously, your hissy-fits are just digging you into a deeper hole. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:42, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but this "community" has yet to answer the simple question I have BEGGED for an answer to, which is HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN HERE! It's like trying to get a message to someone in a big city without any way of knowing where they are, any of their contact information, or anything else useful for figuting out how to get in contact. It's EXTREMELY frustrating, and nearly eveything I have EVEry WRITTEN for Wikipedia seems to end up deleted.... ALMOST ALWAYS with no explanation, and no way to contact the person who deleted it! I don't even have a clue how to know if you will ever see this, so what am I writing it for?  :(( DonaldKronos (talk) 00:59, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I gave you an explanation for why your edit was initially reverted and replied to your post on my talk page. You ignored both and called me a vandal. Why should people take the time to be civil with you when you insult them and ignore their feedback? Zarcusian (talk) 01:03, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. So what exactly is going on? If you want to I can help you.--Mishae (talk) 01:07, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Again, please, I've no doubt your edits are in good faith, but please discuss them on the talk page instead of making major revisions to the page itself. Zarcusian (talk) 03:01, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Explanations were given repeatedly. You refused to pay attention to any of them, and have even responded hostilely calling other vandals instead of bothering to learn how things work here. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history 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 get 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. EdJohnston (talk) 03:06, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can reply to the complaint at WP:AN3#User:DonaldKronos reported by User:Ian.thomson (Result: ) if you wish. But if you continue to revert at Evolution a block is likedly. EdJohnston (talk) 04:39, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Evolution into Biological evolution. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Vsmith (talk) 11:17, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm doing the best I can. Suffering from a major headache and felt like i was being attacked for trying to fix something that was badly broken, but I did mention on the page that it was an offspring of the other page. Perhaps that was not the language expected, but to me that was giving credit. Anyway, I appreciate you letting me know, and taking care of it this time. I hope the community will find what I started to be a good launching point for a solution. I am considering inviting people from a different community to help out, but I hesitate due to not wanting others to feel as unwelcome as I have. Your politeness and helpfulness is certainly refreshing. :) DonaldKronos (talk) 11:46, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1. %!&!!! Well, so much for that. I just got done saying thanks for the politeness, and my work was being attacked WHILE I WAS TYPING THAT!

I give up on this place! DonaldKronos (talk) 11:49, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that you feel that way. Did you even notice that the material you restored had a featured article icon at the top (the star) and a protected article {{pp-semi-protected|small=yes}} note at the top that were the result of your copying. Also your "shouting" (all caps) in your Note to the Wikipedia Community section was essentially screaming revert me. We simply don't do stuff like that in article space. You need a big helping of patience to work here and learn to avoid incivil comments. Vsmith (talk) 13:51, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why I copied such things, is because I have yet to learn what parts of such cryptic things are NECESSARY to not break the page. Editing an existing page is easy. Creating a page is a bit mysterious... and not everyone has nothing better to do than to spend ages trying to figure it out. Again, I was trying to help. I spent considerable time on what I DID do, only to have my work undone, and this is not the first time something like that has happened to me in here.... so asking me to have patience is a bit much. You know, I STILL do not know whether you will see my reply, nor how to address a reply directly to someone.... and no matter how many times I ask people, or point out that I don't know, nobody says. Is it a mystery to EVERYONE, or is in just a secret? In GooglePlus I can address a person by typing a "+" or an "@" character and then slowly typing their name until the right person shows up and I can select it. In Twitter I can type an "@" character followed by the person's Twitter name. In either case, unless the person has opted out of notifications, they will be told that there is a message for them. In here.... one is apparently expected to just wonder whether they are wasting their time... and to be patient. So yes, I was shouting... because I felt like I have no way of being able to be heard. Sorry if you took offense to it. I do not mind if anyone wants to edit or remove such shouting... because at least then I would know SOMEBODY saw it... but it would be nice if when it is at least APPARENTLY meant for a specific person, people would leave that person a chance to see it.

Communication in here is a bit like graffiti artists using the walls in a city to leave messages to each other. PLEASE pass along to whoever can do something about it, that I'm suggesting there has to be a better way. DonaldKronos (talk) 18:37, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Biological evolution. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Dbrodbeck (talk) 13:28, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 3 days for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

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I followed policies, and my work was censored. I have no desire to to be unblocked. Why would I want to be part of a community that condones censorship, approves easy deletion of hard work over efforts to do something good for the world, threatens rather than helping, and bans people for trying to find a reasonable compromise while others are walking all over them? DonaldKronos (talk)

Well, it seems thanks to someone deleting my work yet again, I ended up re-directed, and complained to the WRONG PERSON about deleting my work.... and now I'm blocked from editing anything but my talk page, so I can't even go and correct THAT. Well, hey... may as well block me from editing my talk page also. THANKS TO WHOEVER BLOCKED ME! I WILL NO LONGER BE WASTING MY TIME ATTEMPTING TO CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING VALUABLE TO WIKIPEDIA! DonaldKronos (talk) 17:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Since I am blocked, and unable to post anywhere but here, please, someone pass along my thanks to User_talk:SqueakBox for trying to work with me to make a solution. It is silly that so many people in here seem to think that an "evolution" page should be about a narrow branch of evolution and not even mention how that narrow branch fits into evolution, but I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A COMPROMISE and as far as I got before being BANNED FOR TRYING TO WORK WITH PEOPLE can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biological_evolution&oldid=639325201 DonaldKronos (talk) 06:26, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DonaldKronos. I would like to welcome you to Wikipedia, to assure you that this is a remarkable community effort, and to encourage you to take the time to understand the way it works (including learning policy, not taking the process personally, and practicing civility). Wikipedia editing takes time to understand. TheProfessor (talk) 07:54, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DonaldKronos, I encourage you to help with a rewrite of the article Evolution (term). You already have a good start. It would be good to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Citing sources, and especially to understand that articles are based on third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. If you do decide to continue editing for Wikipedia, I encourage you to read Help:Getting started and Wikipedia:Five pillars, to be open to input and discussion (you will get help if you ask), and of course assume good faith and exercise civility. TheProfessor (talk) 15:56, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know whether I should insert a reply, or what... no information on how to REPLY to someone. and no, asking for help has done me NO GOOD WHAT SO EVER. I have several books of my own that I have been working on for a very long time, and I think I have a valid point in saying that it is not beneficial to Wikipedia to keep telling people with more important things to do that they need to spend unreasonable amounts of time PREPARING to make a small beneficial edit, let alone a substantial contribution which will likely be deleted anyway. -- Thats meant for "TheProfessor", by the way.... although I STILL do not know how to ADDRESS IT to anyone specific. I've asked. I've searched. I just don't KNOW. :( DonaldKronos (talk) 18:53, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You were blocked for reverting more than 3 times at Evolution, which you were warned about, as was explained earlier. Maybe if you bothered to read messages instead of throwing tantrums whenever you get them, you'd still be editing. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:48, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know where to look for what I am supposed to read, nor when or where to look for "messages", nor how to find out. Again.... I have asked. I have searched. I simply CAN NOT FIND AN ANSWER. As a result, I have rarely attempted to contribute.... and when I do, it USUALLY GETS IMMEDIATELY DELETED. As a matter of fact, I know several very good writers who have told me they completely gave up on trying to help in Wikipedia a long time ago for the exact same reason. Some of them have seen my efforts and have commended me on my EXTREME and even EXCESSIVE patience with the way I have been treated in here... but in here, I am tole to "be patient" even after all that. In fact, I have basically given up as well, at this point, yet I am still typing here in my talk page, because I'm trying to get the message across that there is ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT! DonaldKronos (talk) 18:53, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have NO IDEA how I am being addressed on other pages. I have BEGGED for information on how to do that, but it seems to be some big secret. Anyway, I continue to get such messages, but it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to reply to them, because IN HERE is the only place I am allowed to edit... and I wonder how long until that is removed as well.

Yes, the Evolution (disambiguation) page should be updated, and a link placed at the very top of it, ABOVE the like to the page about biological evolution to a page about the process of evolution which of course INCLUDES BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION as a subset! On such a page, short introductions could be made to evolution in various categories and fields of studies, with links to their full articles (or suggested locations to place the full articles, where none exists). Feel free to copy (with or without credit... I don't care) the stuff I had written in an attempt to add something to Wikipedia about evolution in general, or for that matter anything I have written about it anywhere else that you can find it. In my opinion, it is an attack against humanity to hide from the public the fact that evolution happens all around us, and I still consider having the Evolution page be about only biological evolution while the biological evolution page redirects to the Evolution page, to be just that... HIDING THE TRUTH! This is how religions convince people to do terrible things for them... by hiding the truth in order to keep them convinced that theirs is not another variation in an evolutionary process, but something perfect and directly created by perfection! Well... of course many people who spread such lies are not making them up, but simply reproducing them, but DO WE HAVE TO SUPPORT SUCH DECEPTION HERE? DonaldKronos (talk) 19:28, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]