User talk:Francis89~enwiki

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See WP:SPAM. Articles should not be written to promote a person or organisation. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Seriously, you'll never get anywhere by just repeatedly putting in the same text. People who come to the Autism article with a desire to make a change will often succeed if they go through the talk page and be patient, as User:Matsuiny2004 is doing; otherwise they'll just get reverted by all the other editors. Also, I checked out the Italian Wikipedia and I see that there are some issues with the same bit of text over there too. Soap Talk/Contributions 16:23, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Francis, there are already articles on Defeat Autism Now!, Autism Society of America, Autism Research Institute, Bernard Rimland, etc. The main article on Autism should not become an advert for one organisation, particularly one holding a minority stance. The dump of "research" into the Causes section does not help the reader and is a POV collection of primary sources with the aim of justifying a heavy metal toxin theory. The autism article gives this theory the weight it deserves (little). See Causes of autism for a bit more detail. Colin°Talk 16:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree with the above. Please discuss controversial edits on Talk:Autism instead of simply installing a large batch of changes. I see that on Autismo the heavy-metal theory is marked as being covered NPOV way, which is putting it mildly: the heavy-metal theory is not at all mainstream, and as per WP:WEIGHT should not be given such extensive coverage Eubulides (talk) 16:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

AN/I notice
See Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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