AShalhoub
Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject! edit
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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Zefr (talk) 23:16, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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This edit cites preliminary research - much like one would cite in a research publication - but Wikipedia is not a journal but rather an encyclopedia which uses WP:MEDRS as its guide for choosing high-quality reviews as sources for medical content. Your sources don't meet MEDRS-quality. We can discuss it on the Soybean talk page to get other editorial input, or you can read MEDRS to better understand that an encyclopedia needs systematic reviews or a meta-analysis of completed clinical trials to make statements about anti-cancer effects. I'm reverting the edit again. Please don't edit war, WP:WAR. --Zefr (talk) 23:22, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Discretionary sanctions notice edit
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You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. 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.
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Doug Weller talk 14:51, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Warning edit
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Don't revert more than once per day on the mass killings under communist regimes article. This article is subject to WP:1RR limitation. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 20:40, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Misrepresenting sources edit
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. Please be more careful when adding content to accurately represent the sources. For example, in the edit at Special:Diff/1066720009, you wrote "mass killings", but the source only says "crimes". You wrote, "in Central and Eastern Europe", but the source wrote, "within European institutions". These are meaningful differences. Thanks, Levivich 20:32, 19 January 2022 (UTC)