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September 2018
Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:59, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I reverted (ah, I see someone else has already reverted it) your edit again because, as I said in the edit summary the first time around, the link is inappropriate. The phrase "to help women, ethnic minority, and refugee students become physics researchers" states JBB's intention for how the money is to be used, and this intention is not the same thing as affirmative action, although it shares, in part, an intention to benefit (some) groups of people who have suffered discrimination. To take just one aspect, affirmative action can sometimes be perceived as giving the disadvantaged group an unfair advantage, for example, through the use of quotas, which is obviously not JBB's intention. Just one example of why the link is inappropriate.

There is another reason why this form of linking is wrong, which won't be so obvious to a new editor, and that is that it amounts to original research, or editorializing. Basically, our job as editors is to summarise and paraphrase what sources say, not what we ourselves think. A more subtle point, I know, but applying the link is still a form of editorializing. See also the links given by the editor who reverted you: WP:BRD, WP:EASTER

--NSH001 (talk) 01:52, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

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You can be blocked for edit summaries such as this. See WP:AGF and WP:NPA. I can't think of a worse insult than calling someone an "anti-Semite". It can be overlooked this time because you're new to Wikipedia, but do it again, and you will be blocked.

I strongly advise you to do some research and find out what antisemitism really is (as opposed, for example, to the confected nonsense about Jeremy Corbyn that has appeared recently in the so-called "mainstream" media). In fact the links on my user page will help you to do that. Worth spending some time on it. Good luck!

BTW, my politics are pacifist and anti-war, not "far-left". Big difference. Again, this is obvious from my user page.

--NSH001 (talk) 01:52, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

P.S. here are some videos of British Jews explaining why the anti-Corbyn allegations are nonsense. I love these feisty Jewish ladies! (especially Annabelle Sreberny)