User talk:Nailcain

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February 2019

Hello, I'm CaptainEek. Your recent edit to the page Chemotherapy appears to have added incorrect information, so it has been removed for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. You reading of the source was incorrect Captain Eek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!} 20:43, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Chemotherapy, you may be blocked from editing. OfficialBoob (talk) 22:31, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Callingg something vandalism because your opinion disagrees with it does not make it so. Nailcain (talk) 17:37, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Chemotherapy. Your edits to chemotherapy have been non-neutral, and clearly factually incorrect. The article you cite says that sharks could give us clues as how to fight cancer, but does not say that shark DNA is a cure for cancer or that cancer has been cured. Captain Eek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!} 18:19, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Chemotherapy

Hi Nailcain! Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that your edits to Chemotherapy have been reverted a few times (once by me) and wanted to try to clarify the reasons for that.

First and most importantly, Wikipedia has a guideline on identifying reliable sources for medical articles, which you can read at Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). It has a section on popular press sources (such as articles on the BBC website) which explains that "The popular press is generally not a reliable source for scientific and medical information in articles" and that "A news article should therefore not be used as a sole source for a medical fact or figure." It's worth giving the whole section a read.

Secondly, editors have also expressed concern that your edits have misrepresented the claims made in the source. Whereas your edits have claimed that "great white shark DNA is capable of curing [cancer]", the source says "Great white sharks may hold the secrets to curing cancer and other age-related diseases" and "Scientists hope more research could help apply the findings to treating age-related illnesses in humans." While it's acceptable to paraphrase sources and cut out extraneous information, it's important to make sure that we're not saying things that go beyond what's in the source.

Finally, it might be worth asking whether information on the possible cancer-curative power of great white sharks belongs in an article about chemotherapy. Wouldn't it be better in the Great white shark article or the Cancer research article? Of course, if you were to add the same claims to those articles the first two points would still be an issue – but the first step to adding content to the encyclopaedia is often finding the right place to add it.

More generally, Wikipedia works on the basis of consensus, achieved through discussion and debate. It's almost always better to engage in discussion on an article's talk page (in this case Talk:Chemotherapy) than to engage in edit warring. I hope this clears things up a bit – feel free to let me know here or at my talk page if you have any questions. All the best, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 21:20, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- ferret (talk) 02:00, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]