I find myself editing articles a lot more nowadays. Recently I was looking up some info on the Great Leap Forward and i was curious what the estimated death counts were listed as on Wikipedia. Of course they were all over the place, but mainly in the beginning and death count section were listed as 30 to 55 million. However, I knew this wasnt correct, as I had previously read a paper on an analysis that mentioned 15 million among the lowest estimates. So I edited 15 to 55 million throughout the whole article and added the estimates and academic sources for both 15 and 18 million excess death estimates. Just remember to always keep an eye on this kind of stuff cause wikipedia influences a lot of ppl in these sort of articles, and its easy enough to do edits if you know something is off or missing other info!
I'm not sure I've ever had an edit similar to this that wasn't reverted almost immediately.
It's definitely worth taking it to the talk page then. I've won battles with a bit of patience.
"Let's take this to the talk page, shall we?"