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Calling a spade a spade and other thoughts

"Thoughts are free", as the German song has it, and I do not want to infringe upon that. Nevertheless, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and cannot just rely on someone's say-so for the content of an article. One of the the fundamentals of Wikipedia is that articles should be verifiable. If we were to let that slip, Wikipedia would loose its value. Kleuske (talk) 09:58, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Charles Sherwood Cryer Obit.jpg

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Your contributed article, Cathleen Ann O'Brien

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Discretionary sanctions alert for all pages relating to pseudoscience and fringe science, broadly interpreted

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You have shown interest in pseudoscience and fringe science. 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 18:57, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Your undiscussed and pov page move

That was clearly a violation of WP:NPOV and not the first one. I'm surprised you've had no warnings before. However, you've now been alerted about the discretionary sanctions in the area and hopefully will avoid such edits and page moves. Any page move that might possibly be controversial or for a page with active editing needs to be discussed and consensus acquired before a move. Doug Weller talk 19:00, 18 February 2019 (UTC)