Atyy

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November 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Intelligent Design appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. Wisdom89 22:38, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Intelligent design. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 23:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Evolution and learning

I got a message from Wisdom89 that my addition about the possible connection between evolution and learning is "non-neutral", which is untrue. Did you revert it because of a similar objection? The reference given to support the statement is an article in an international peer-reviewed journal that is indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge. Incidentally, I actually thought I had reverted it only once, but ended up reverting multiple times because I did not know the reversion had been received by wikipedia. This was because wikipedia displayed a page to me saying that there was technical problem with wikipedia's servers, and that I should attempt to access the page again in a few minutes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atyy (talk • contribs) 00:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm replying to you here. You don't have to come back to my page to reply. Several things. First of all, I do 50-100 edits per day on Wikipedia, and I'd be hard pressed to remember any specific one. You need to provide a diff. Second, lots of editors were reverting your edits, because it is non-neutral. I don't know the specific journal, but I'll take a look. When the editors I saw revert your edits, I'm going to side with them. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 02:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, I reviewed the paper, and I think you're misinterpreting what it is saying. It is not discussing natural selection as "learning" in an intelligent sense, but in a sense that populations of organisms adapt through natural selection. It appears like learning, but only in the broadest definition of the word. To apply it to evolution is specious, and the author, a physicist, has no intent in applying it in that way. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 03:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Block

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our policies concerning neutral point of view and biographies of living persons will not be tolerated. This has been done for edit-warring as prohibited by WP:3R Bearian 14:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)