> To contribute to articles on controversial topics (such as politics and religion), Wikipedia recommends the following: > 1) Edit the article with the changes

> To contribute to articles on controversial topics (such as politics and religion), Wikipedia recommends the following: > 1) Edit the article with the changes you want to make. > 2) If another editor disagrees with you, they will revert your edit. > 3) After your edit is reverted, go to the talk page of the article and discuss the contents of your edit. This is actually a bad idea. It's fine for garden-variety editing that you don't expect to raise controversy, but if you want to affect something controversial and not look like you're acting in bad faith, you absolutely need to go to the talk page first and propose your edit there. If no one replies after a few days, then you have cover to just make the change 'per the talk page' (and sometimes you do get reverted here - but now you can complain that they didn't act fairly by commenting on your proposal!), but most likely they will, and you'll get to hash out the wording on talk.