User talk:HappyAzure

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Hello, HappyAzure, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! SmartSE (talk) 12:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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Adam and Eve
Hi, someone has undone your edit to Adam and Eve and I agree that it was correct to do so. Using the dog breeding paper as a reference in that way, is what we call 'original research' as the paper does not say that it provides evidence for A+E being plausible. Whats more, dog breeding is the result of artificial selection which creates much more variation than sexual selection (which humans are subjected to). Drop me a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Cheers SmartSE (talk) 12:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback
Being "fanatical" may lie in the eye of the beholder; if you mean your reverted edit at Adam and Eve, I agree your edit being the reverted. You've been given an explanation as to why this was done above.

Lectonar (talk) 12:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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In response to your Response
So a mote "may" lie in my eye? Have you seen what the article was reverted _to_? You'd be hard pressed to defend that particular section of prose.

More importantly, to the 'reason' provided, I can only say... selection is selection. The assertion that "'artificial' selection is stronger than 'sexual' selection" and that it somehow gives rise to an abnormally high observed mutation rate was made without evidence.

See Wikipedia 'Artificial Selection' excerpt below...  Contrast to natural selection

There is no real difference in the genetic processes underlying artificial and natural selection, and the concept of artificial selection was used by Charles Darwin as an illustration of the wider process of natural selection. The selection process is termed "artificial" when human preferences or influences have a significant effect on the evolution of a particular population or species. Indeed, many evolutionary biologists view domestication as a type of natural selection and adaptive change that occurs as organisms are brought under the control of human beings. However, it is useful to distinguish between artificial selection that is unintentional or involves manipulating the environment only, and artificial selection that alter internal DNA sequences in the laboratory. Genetic manipulation in labs has little in common with processes that occur in nature. 

This is not the first time Wikipedia editors with deep-set biases and more time and drive than regular user frustrated genuine improvements to articles with 'reverts'. Doing away with the simple 'revert' operation (e.g. replacing it with a forced edit) may help. Or it may not. This is all a bit tiring and as earlier, I've given up. I thought I'd justify my position for those that are fair minded.

HappyAzure (talk) 15:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)