User talk:SMSchmutz

A belated welcome!


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:36, 8 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, I don't consider that updating the references/links to webpages I've been forced to move is "spamming" or "conflict of interest".  I'm a retired professor and those pages don't benefit me financially or any other way I can see - but are meant to provide further explanations and references for the public.
 * I looked at your colour-sided Wikipedia page and I think it's fine.
 * Cordially,
 * Sheila Schmutz, PhD SMSchmutz (talk) 16:24, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Your edits
Hi! Wikipedia particularly needs – and should particularly welcome – editors with advanced knowledge or expertise, and I hope that you will find the time to make some valuable additions to this project. May I also hope that you will stop spamming links to your website here? That's not considered helpful, and can have unexpected or undesired consequences, starting with wholesale removal of all links to that site, or black-listing thereof. Rightly or wrongly, we consider this to be a form of conflict-of-interest editing, which is strongly discouraged. There's guidance here (and just above), which I invite you to read.

If you can spare a moment, would you care to glance at Colour-sided, and let me know just how badly I have misrepresented the science as it is now understood? I'd be grateful. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:53, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Dexter
Hi again! I formatted the ref you added to Dexter cattle, but note that it's an article to which you yourself contributed; please understand that adding citations to your own work in this project can appear to be conflict-of-interest editing, and is not advisable (or not very good manners, take your pick!). I then copy-edited the text, and added better references for the distribution of coat colours in the breed, so I've commented out the one you added. I'm not a geneticist or even a scientist (my actual field is the history of music theory), but it looks to me as if your paper is saying that the mechanism for the dun coloration in the Dexter is different from that in other breeds; is that correct? If so, would you care to add a brief sentence to that effect to that page? Or tell me what to write and I'll do it? (and don't worry about the reference, it's the work of a moment to unhide it, I'll deal with that). There's so much you could contribute to this project, so this is another blatant attempt to get you interested in doing so ( I'd still really appreciate your advice on colour-sided, as I think that falls right within your area of interest ). Please excuse my intrusion, regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:33, 11 June 2023 (UTC)