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I removed the following material from the lead section:
Editors 75.132.39.167, Gsquaredxc, and Snowycats each reverted my edit with no explanation whatsoever. As I stated in an edit summary, this material is included in its entirety in the body of the article. It makes the lead section a bit lengthy and a bit too laudatory. 24.29.56.240 (talk) 19:25, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
The reasons why I reverted your edit are as follows:
I also explained fairly well why I reverted your edit using the uw4-vandalism. The edit was not without explanation.
Along with this, Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines states "Cautiously editing or removing another editor's comments is sometimes allowed, but normally you should stop if there is any objection." Please do not remove notices from your talk page with the reasoning "remove BS warning that has no basis in reality".
I cannot speak for Snowycats, however I do believe than an accusation of wikihounding is unfair as "Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles. In fact, such practices are recommended both for Recent changes patrol and WikiProject Spam."
As for 75.132.39.167, please link a source for when this user reverted your edit. In fact, you reverted 75.132.39.167's edit, which is the edit that this dispute is about.
In the future, please explain your changes in the edit summary as well as explain in the talk page before you make considerable changes. Please do not make large deletions, then tell others to contest them in the talk page. Gsquaredxc (talk) 20:25, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
The article should explain how Mellencamp dodged the draft and avoided Vietnam (the biggest issue for any healthy male his age back then). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.27.38 (talk) 16:46, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
The following currently appears in the article:
"When Mellencamp turned 18, he married his pregnant girlfriend Priscilla Esterline.[citation needed] Mellencamp became a father in December 1970, only six months after he graduated from high school.[citation needed] "
Well, the math doesn't add up. This article gives Mellencamp's DOB as October 7, 1951. "When Mellencamp turned 18" would then be Oct 1969. At that time, says the article, Priscilla was already pregnant. Yet the child was born December 1970, 14 months later.
Either the first pregnancy ended prematurely and the child born in December 1970 was of a different pregnancy, or else there is a mistake in the above-referenced part of the article.
The lack of citations is not a point in its favor.
That said, I don't want to just remove a major part of his story, so I did not edit the article.
But if anyone can make sense of the above, please do.
Thank you,
2600:1017:B828:3CE:0:53:8158:1701 (talk) 10:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
The unsourced claim has been removed. - FlightTime (open channel) 00:48, 24 September 2022 (UTC)