User talk:Christmasbaby

August 2019

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Oak Cliff, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. – Archer1234 (talk) 05:10, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

I was a resident of Oak Cliff for some 50 years, during the years of court-mandated desegregation, and knew many families who moved to the southern suburbs in "white flight." Those moves along with many others contributed to the population growth of the southern suburbs during the 70s. So the article's reference to white flight only to northern suburbs was inaccurate. With all due respect, that claim is not sourced, so why do you take it as gospel? Omitting the word "northern" is indeed a minor change, because whites fled in all directions. Christmasbaby (talk) 17:28, 13 August 2019 (UTC)Christmasbaby

Hi Christmasbaby, All three of your recent edits to Oak Cliff were marked by you as "minor", but none of them were "minor" as far as how Wikipedia defines that term. Only mark edits as minor when just correcting typos, changing formatting, rearranging text without modifying it, etc. (see Help:Minor edit for more help about what constitutes a minor edit).

With regard to the "white flight", I do not take it as gospel and I have no issue with removing the entire paragraph as unsourced (just explain in the edit summary that that is what you are doing). But if you are going to add or change what is there, you need to provide reliable source(s) to verify/substantiate the change. Thanks. – Archer1234 (talk) 18:01, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Okay, I get it -- except the change from "opening in" to "opened" -- surely that is indeed a minor edit since it just changed the tense of the verb to make it accurate? And if I remove a paragraph that is unsourced, do I then check "watch this page"? Thanks - Christmasbaby (talk) 18:15, 13 August 2019 (UTC)