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Notification of special editing rules relating to abortion

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 abortion. 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.

Because you have shown interest in a highly controversial area of Wikipedia, please carefully ensure that you are following all editing rules. Reach out to Shalor (Wiki Ed) or your instructor if you run into any problems. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:12, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Notes

Here are the notes I mentioned:

• Avoid using judgement and POV statements or words like "important". These are inherently subjective and while I would agree that abortion rulings are important, the term is still non-neutral since the term comes with certain associated emotions and connotations.

• The term 'latest' is problematic since it's an imprecise dated term. While some would say that March 2020 can still be considered the latest, others would argue that since it's been a full month since then that it's not the latest anymore. There's also the issue of whether or not someone will come behind to update this with the latest - or if any news after this would be seen as major enough news to summarize on Wikipedia.

• You copied a court ruling as opposed to summarizing it. It's always best to summarize rather than quote, unless the quote is so important that the article would lose something in the process. Even then it must be clearly marked and be accompanied by context. This is especially important when it comes to decisions that list various articles - it's confusing as to what this is meant to impart, as people may not be aware of those articles.

• Be careful of formatting, as the sections show up kind of wonky.

• Make sure that you are as neutral as possible with the writing and avoid writing persuasively. You want to avoid phrasing things like "if... then/therefore..." statements, as this poses an issue of neutrality and original research. We can only summarize what has been explicitly stated in reliable sources - we cannot use them to synthesize new conclusions.

I hope that this all helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Abortion in Colombia.

Hi Shalor,

Thanks for reviewing what I had edited. I took into account the suggestions you made when editing my article and changing the words that you suggested that I should not use. Thanks for reviewing the article and giving me suggestions.

-Isabella Cradenas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isabellac99 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

• No problem! I would just make sure that you discuss the changes on the talk page if you make any further edits. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:07, 6 May 2020 (UTC)