User talk:Jack Robert-Smart

Hello, Jack Robert-Smart, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! The Ogre (talk) 09:13, 5 July 2011 (UTC) Getting started Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page Article Wizard - a Wizard to help you create articles How you can help Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

July 2011

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 09:17, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 09:17, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

In particular, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue edit warring, you may be blocked from editing. Take your concerns to the talk page and stop edit warring. This is not negotiable. If you do not receive the outcome you would like there are other resources with which you may avail yourself to. Edit warring is not one of those options nor is violating 3rr.. 4twenty42o (talk) 20:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula

The type of commentary that you added belongs on the talk page, not on the article. The way that I read the article, there are various genetic markers, *some* of which line up with Western Europe, others that line up with other countries in the Mediterranean (on both sides) and some that line up with Africa. The section title "North African male admixture per region (>1%)" indicates that what follows are only those regions of Spain where the admixture is greater than 1%, the remainder (presumably in the north where the Islamic invasion did not go as far or stay as long, is less than 1%. Regardless, the type of edit warring that you have been doing on the page will lead to the account being blocked. And BTW, I'm of European mostly Jewish descent. Naraht (talk) 21:47, 6 July 2011 (UTC)