DoctorOfBiology

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Copying licensed material requires attribution

Hi. I see in a recent addition to Synthetic biology you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Important Notice

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Doug Weller talk 15:56, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Grayfell (talk) 21:38, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

There were no advertisements here, only neutral content. You don't seem to be assuming good faith. Yet I was adding very mainstream authors and arguments, which you have deleted for reasons that don't make sense. DoctorOfBiology (talk) 01:21, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Proposed edits with new sources

I recently attempted to add new content and citations to the second paragraph of the article, and the suggested readings at the end (for example, Oxford University's Julian Savulescu and Thomas Douglas, who are the main players in this debate). Greyfell then deleted all of them, saying that I was citing "promotional material." This is incorrect. According to Wikipedia policy, promotional material would be someone trying to promote propaganda or selling one's own material. This is clearly not what I was doing. DoctorOfBiology (talk) 01:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)