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October 2013

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Résumé, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:00, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Colonization of Mars

Hello. Sorry, but I reverted you additions to Colonization of Mars. It was well written, but it removed sourced material and replaced it with writing that looked like it was original research. Verifiability is one of Misplaced Pages's core principles, so I hope you will keep that it mind for future edits. Thank you, Grayfell (talk) 00:39, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Again, your edits have removed sources. In addition to that, the lead of an article is intended to be an academic summery of the body, and not simply an introduction. If you have a problem with the word "hospitable" then change that word, or alternately discuss the problem on the article's talk page. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 03:00, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Note on Editing

I'm asking you to please discuss your edits at Talk:Colonization of Mars. Your edits have a number of problems, and ignoring me isn't going to solve them.

Your edits are written in a non-encyclopedic tone (WP:TONE) . Misplaced Pages is intended to be written in a formal style from a neutral point of view. Writing things like "This does not preclude the possibility that man might one day step foot on Mars and 'scout around,' but whether or not we ever get to Mars seems less a matter of scientific progress, than the balance of power between sane and crazy." is neither formal, nor neutral. If National Geographic says we won't establish a colony on Mars, then we should explain that it as being National Geographic's opinion, not Misplaced Pages's.

Additionally, your edits have been introducing "curly" quotation marks and apostrophes, (MOS:QUOTEMARKS) which is discouraged by the manual of style (WP:MOS). They can also potentially introduce a few technical problems.

Again, I am asking you to please take these edits to the article's talk page. Grayfell (talk) 05:00, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

• I came within whisker of asking for you to be banned from wikipedia but I thought I'd give you a last chance. I've just reverted your recent set of edits on Colonization of Mars because yet again you (a) removed properly sourced factual material and (b) added material that promoted your opinions about the topic. You've already been warned about this both here and on the article's Talk page, and reverted several times, but you keep on doggedly. You must be well aware that this counts as both Edit Warring and POV Pushing. Misplaced Pages is not interested in your opinions. Please take this as a final warning and cease making these disruptive changes. andy (talk) 19:41, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
  

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I'm going to recommend that the Misplaced Pages entry for the Colonization of Mars be removed from Misplaced Pages. The entire page is nothing but propaganda. There is no colony on Mars, so it doesn't make sense how "encyclopedic" or well sourced the contributions are.