User talk:Logicalskeptic

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July 2011
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Starchild skull. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively. In particular, the three-revert rule states that: 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 to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Yobol (talk) 17:55, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

Starchild skull
Welcome to Wikipedia! You might want to take a look at the WP:PARITY policy before editing any further on the Starchild skull article - editing a controversial article so that both views are given "equal credence" isn't appropriate when one viewpoint is in a clear minority and is unsupported by reliable sources. (So far as I can tell from your edit, the arguments in favour of the skull being non-human are primarily taken from the opinions of the "Trace Genetics" company and unspecified "new DNA tests", plus your own original research interpretation of unrelated academic work.)

If you have specific criticisms about certain aspects of an article, that's great, but they should be raised on the article's talk page (in this case Talk:Starchild skull) rather than being discussed in the article itself. An encyclopaedia reader doesn't need to know about potential inaccuracies in "a previous version of this article as edited by Yobol", they just need to know what the sources say. --McGeddon (talk) 17:57, 31 July 2011 (UTC)