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DS Alert

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 Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 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.

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 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.

--Guy Macon (talk) 05:26, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. RexxS (talk) 12:17, 24 August 2020 (UTC) Why is my comment, but not yours, a personal attack?

Survey

Hi! I am doing a quick survey of new Wikipedia users.

How did you hear about Wikipedia?

What convinced you to start editing?

Thanks!

--Guy Macon (talk) 11:41, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia is a great concept, but with two edges. It is always the first result that comes up in more than 90% of my google searches. I have also made small donations to Wikipedia, believing in the cause.

I first found errors that I thought could correct myself, and started editing, thus contributing to the original concept that was Wikipedia. Recently, I found that people also edit articles to promote their personal beliefs, purposefully misinterpreting facts and truths. While Wikipedia rightly asks for citations, few people understand that providing a citation alone does not make sentences facts. So I tried correcting an article that evidently twisted facts on one of the most popular topics related to India, which is Ayurveda. I just removed 2 sentences that were false, and which were not found anywhere in the quoted references. But soon it turned out to be an organised and planned attack, aimed at demeaning the science. My edit was removed, with personal threats coming from a user who probably made the edit in the first place, and who seems to be more experienced in editing Wikipedia. It's a helpless situations. That is the dark side of Wikipedia.