User talk:Laughton.andrew

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Hello, Laughton.andrew! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 14:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Your edits

Sorry, I should have given you the above welcome message earlier. Thanks for your contributions, but I'd like you to read through our policies and guidelines as cited above. Your edits seem propaganda, and wikipedia is not a soapbox. Hope you stay around. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, just a quick friendly note - please refrain from editing other people's comments on talk pages. The thought is appreciated, but even when just correcting spelling or spacing it is still considered rude. Be seeing you. - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 16:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. I was reffering to your edits to Roundup. You first entered a number of links to the greenpeace site (while there is already a linkfarm which needs pruning), and then you added "Among the Large numbers of health risks with Roundup are non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of cancer, reproductive damage as well as damage to the kidney and liver, it may cause cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, nerve, and respiratory damage, including Parkinson's Disease." to the text. That entry seems propagande, not encyclopedic, linked ('referenced') to consumers sites (in this case not verifyable info, as the original data is inaccessible) and google searches. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Please try to edit in a more neutral way, and reference the data to reliable sources (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources, Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Footnotes). Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)