User talk:Lexorandi81
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[edit] Undoing deletions
When your fellow editors amend or undo your edits, they are doing so in the interests of the encyclopedia, expressing their opinion about the best form of the article in question. Once your edit has been undone once, it is often not constructive to revert that deletion (though I have done myself once or twice), but instead to raise a discussion on the appropriate talk page. This article makes me smile: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DeleteOnceRestoreOnce . Please read Wikipedia:Dispute resolution#Avoidance , and also bear in mind that other editors may even suspect that you have a conflict of interest in promoting the Stricken by God book whose article was deleted. Although I do not want to be drawn into this debate, it seems that Flex has a valid case, until the book gets more scholarly recognition.
Sometimes I find it calming to remember that my edits will always be there in the history, as nothing is ever deleted.
In the meantime, I see you have found there are many other interesting articles to be written or edited on Wikipedia: don't let one small disagreement deter you.
