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Discretionary Sanctions

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding Abortion, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Misplaced Pages, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Template:Z33--v/r - TP 19:41, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Complaint at WP:ANI about your abortion-related edits

Please see Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Abortion - subject to sanctions- editing by MarieWarren. You may respond there if you wish. EdJohnston (talk) 19:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you EdJohnston. My statements on union campaigns were posted in order to demonstrate the range of topics that they aim to support. All statements of affiliation of unions can be supported by documentation. I do not, at any time, give a POV on whether the unions' campaigns should be supported or not. I do not give a POV on sex selection abortion. I merely state that they have these campaigns. I hope that you will allow knowledge of what the unions campaign for remain as edits to their wiki pages. Please don't ban me without further discussion on ways forward. MarieWarren (talk) 13:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

You need to avoid editorial comment, eg "courageously". Dougweller (talk) 17:43, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Agreed Dougweller Thanks. I will make the change if you have not already done so. MarieWarren (talk) 10:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Please use your account when you edit

Please don't edit war as you did here: and here: to reinstate your preferred version. And especially, since you have an account, please don't edit the same articles logged out, as that might give an appearance of more support for your version than is actually the case. Bishonen | talk 23:53, 9 December 2014 (UTC).

Thank you Bishonen. Those reverts may have been conducted by a friend who I have now instructed on how to set up a proper account and I have mentioned a few rules to them too editing. MarieWarren (talk) 13:35, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Minor edits

Please see WP:Minor for a description of "minor edit": it summarises itself as "Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if the edit concerns a single word, and it is improper to mark such an edit as minor." I have just noticed that you marked all your edits to articles yesterday as minor. They weren't. Please take care not to label any further edits as "minor" unless they really are at the level of removing blank space, correcting incontrovertible typos, etc. Thank you. PamD 14:14, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks PamD. Still new to this and I though a single sentence was minor. My mistake. MarieWarren (talk) 14:30, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

To "ping" someone else so that they know they've been mentioned, use {{ping}} - ie you could have typed {{ping|PamD}}, which produces: @PamD: and notifies me. To mention another user, as in "X said...", you can use {{U|PamD}} which produces PamD, which has a link to their user page. To mention another user and link to their talk page and contributions, use {{User|PamD}}, producing this: PamD (talk · contribs). It takes a while to find things. But you've got the Welcome message above which includes plenty of useful links. PamD 16:51, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks PamD. MarieWarren (talk) 16:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

POV editing on Abortion Rights (organisation)

I have reverted your edit to Abortion Rights (organisation) because it misrepresented the information to which you refer.

You said "The Abortion Rights contains information on how to perform an abortion. Suggested methods listed include: "a simple operation"; "drugs"; and "pushing objects into the uterus e.g. a stick, rubber tubing, wire, coat hangers"."

The group's web page at http://www.abortionrights.org.uk/methods-of-abortion/ which you cite is headed "Methods of abortion" and under "Safe and unsafe abortion", "Unsafe abortion", it says "Unsafe abortion is performed by untrained people using dangerous methods, which often fail, in unsterile conditions." and lists various methods including coathangers etc. The page is describing unsafe methods of abortion which have been used, not suggesting their use.

I believe that your edit probably falls within the scope of the discretionary sanctions on editing in this subject area, as edits "that do not adhere to the purpose of Misplaced Pages, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies" and will report it at ANI. PamD 18:24, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

At Arbitration Enforcement

Following the advice I was given at WP:ANI, I have raised the matter of your editing on Abortion Rights (organisation) at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement because I believe it to come within the scope of the Discretionary Sanctions on Abortion-related topics to which you were alerted above on 9th December 2014. PamD 23:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Blocked

If you believe this block is unjustified, please read the guide to appealing blocks (specifically this section) before appealing. Place the following on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Please copy my appeal to the ] or ]. Your reason here OR place the reason below this template. ~~~~}}. If you intend to appeal on the arbitration enforcement noticeboard I suggest you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template on your talk page so it can be copied over easily. You may also appeal directly to me (by email), before or instead of appealing on your talk page. v/r - TP 23:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Reminder to administrators: In May 2014, ArbCom adopted a procedure instructing administrators as follows: "No administrator may modify a sanction placed by another administrator without: (1) the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or (2) prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes" ). Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped."