Adamhampton99

Discretionary sanctions notification

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.

I note that you are a new Wikipedian. Before engaging in editing controversial topics such as abortion, you should familiarize yourself with fundamental Wikipedia content policies and guidelines such as due and undue weight, giving equal validity creates false balance, the use of reliable sources, and for medical articles in particular, WP:MEDRS. This should help you understand how our articles are written and edited. In short, this encyclopedia does not give "equal time" to all sides of an argument - rather it reflects the mainstream point of view of the argument. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 02:55, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Adamhampton99, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:59, 27 January 2020 (UTC)