User talk:169.237.57.250
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February 2018[edit]
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Externality. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Netoriantap (talk) 07:52, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Netoriantap,
When I deleted "electric vehicle" from the list of examples of positive externalities, that was not vandalism, but correcting a factual error in the text. Driving an electric vehicle is not a positive externality, but rather a behavior that produces fewer negative externalties than some other behaviors. To see why this is not a positive externality, consider the case where the electric vehicle driver stays home and cooks lasagna rather than venturing out. This would have the same positive consequence of not increasing air pollution (since no vehicle is being driven), but it would be absurd to suggest that cooking lasagna constitutes a positive externality. Frankly, this example is particularly egregious, since driving a vehicle of any variety contributes to traffic congestion, which is a negative externality.
Best,
Matthew
- Matthew, your edit was very likely reverted because it had looked like you removed that content within the Wikipedia page without a sufficient reason for doing so. These types of edits are often reverted on-sight because most of them are typically disruptive. However, your edit seems to be alright, so this was probably just a false positive. However, I'm not really sure why 43.245.8.80 undid your edit there... I have asked them on their talkpage why they did that... Regards. 46.239.205.165 (talk) 00:00, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
Ah. That makes sense. Thank you for reaching out to 43.245.8.80, I'll be curious to see their response. Best.
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