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Hi

Hi - I've noticed your editing on the Genetically modified organisms article. Not sure what happened with that first edit where you added a spamlink... and I think your 2nd and 3rd edits were meant to come together (if you click "edit" and study how the article is actually built, you will see that references go inline, with tags around them (<ref> in front of the citation and </ref> right after it), and the software automatically creates a footnote and adds the citation to the references at the end.) The links above, in the welcome message, will help you learn how to edit.

On a broader note, there is actually a suite of articles related to GMOs - briefly:

• Genetic engineering covers the basic science
• Genetically modified organisms is a broad overview article that shows what organisms have been genetically modified and for what purposes
• Genetically modified crops focuses on crops themselves (primarily agriculturally focused)
• Genetically modified food describes what kinds of foods are actually genetically modified, how, and why
• Genetically modified food controversies covers all the controversies about all the above. Per WP:SUMMARY (please read that), a summary of the GM Food controversies article has been placed in all the articles above, with a link to the main article
• Regulation of the release of genetically modified organisms covers government regulation of GMOs and GM food. Like the controversies article, a summary of this article has been placed in the articles above, with a link to the main article.
• Those are the key articles, but there are many others, which you can find in the Genetic Engineering template at the bottom of all those articles. (which you can see in freestanding form here: Template:Genetic engineering

This set of articles are pretty mature and lots and lots of people have worked on them; pretty much every issue imaginable has been raised and addressed somewhere in them, and there are often many conversations going on in the Talk pages associated with the articles. So please have a look around and orient yourself. See you on the article talk pages - good luck! Jytdog (talk) 17:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

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Your recent editing history at Genetically modified organism shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Jytdog (talk) 22:41, 5 March 2015 (UTC)