User talk:Arch Hades

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What exactly in my edit of the Yamnaya culture do you think contradicted wikipedia's verifiability policy? And my edit has not been reverted. Arch Hades (talk) 02:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * To address a specific user, you can use something like the ping or reply templates. I've turned off the help me template since you were asking more of a content or response question than a question about how to edit the encyclopedia.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:35, 29 March 2020 (UTC)


 * We often see people adding material to cited text that isn't in the source. You've at least used an edit summary to explain yourself, but to I'm not sure I could find it, although I may have looked at the wrong source You've added "paternal" and I can't find that in the source. Thanks for finding the paper that you linked on my page, you can use that to rewrite the bit I deleted. Doug Weller  talk 16:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Well you can't make inferences about a population's overall origin using only paternal/Y chromosomal haplogroups. The sentence i edited read "Unlike their Khvalynsk predecessors however, the Y-DNA of the Yamnaya is exclusively of EHG and WHG origin. This suggests that the leading clans of the Yamnaya were of EHG and WHG origin.". Paternal needs to be put in there for accuracy's sake. Another thing is, reading the source you sent me. I don't see that sentence at all in the source, so maybe the entire sentence should just be deleted? That's up to you. Arch Hades (talk) 16:25, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Could you suggest that on the talk page, I'll be too busy for a while and several people have noticed my edits (I know because of "notifications"). Doug Weller  talk 17:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Important Notice
Doug Weller talk 05:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

OK, thanks for giving me a heads up. My edit on Richard Lynn was pointing out that his IQ scores for Italian IQ were not actual IQ scores and were instead "calculated" IQs based upon 2006 PISA score data. That's not controversial at all. I didnt make any assertion that this was a reliable or unreliable method. Arch Hades (talk) 06:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Just routine. I've self-alerted myself. Alerts need to be renewed every year, otherwise it's assumed you've forgotten. I try to give them impartially, I often don't even know if someone has a pov on the subject. Doug Weller  talk 17:36, 10 April 2020 (UTC)