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Dilidor I apologize for appearing aggressive. To be fair, your edit summaries were not helpful nor explanatory and they appeared to me to be arbitrary and capricious,you kept reverting Native American to Indian, and insisting that the Mayflower Compact was THE seed of american Democracy, when I tried to correct (with citations) that it was A seed, not the seed. Your insistence that it was THE seed led me to believe that you were obsessed with the idea that the Brownist faction of Puritans were THE seed or start of democracy in America, and that is not true. I felt that leaving it as such is misleading, and can only wonder why. Also this Pilgrim thing is a modern term, Bradford may have called himself a pilgrim, but at the time they were Brownists and called themselves Saints. You say that your goal is accuracy then the article should accurately reflect what they were considered and what they called themselves, not how we "euphemistically" refer to them today.
As regards my contribution to the Virginia Company. I labored over it before I posted it the first time (days of research). Obviously I do not have the command of proper grammar and syntax that you do. I acknowledge your superiority in that regard. However the information in that edit not only improves the article, but is contributive and, say, a student doing research should have that information available.
I have spent hours correcting grammar, syntax, references and despite that I probably have missed some errors. I would appreciate cleaning up the errors, but not deleting or reverting the complete edit and all of it's paragraphs.
I would be glad to work with you and not against you, fresh start. Believe it or not this situation is creating tension and causing me physical discomfort. It isn't just you. I've noticed that most of the very active editors have a lot of experience in academia, and probably peer review (just guessing) I have none and am unaccustomed to this style of "communicating", meaning short, inexplicable edit summaries. Again I apologize for my behavior and wish to collaborate rather than fight. I will be reposting my edit on the Virginia Company. I've worked it over quite a bit. Please do not revert but communicate. Thanks.Oldperson (talk) 12:35, 18 September 2019 (UTC) =