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Hi. Could you please read WP:VERIFY, WP:RS and WP:UNDUE. I am curious about one thing. How can there be a recent common ancestor for people who have been isolated for longer than that? Note that we can’t use article talk pages for such discussions as they aren’t forums for discussion of the subject of the article. Doug Weller talk 06:39, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi Doug. I want to be clear that I am a scientist at leading secular institution. What I posted is established mainstream science. It is surprising finding but has been well known among population geneticists for a long time. The key papers are https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02842 and https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aap/1029955256. To your question, there is no evidence that any populations have been genealogically isolated. It turns out that genealogical isolation is not observable in genetic data. Even if populations are genetically isolated, they can be genealogically mixed. In fact, the vast majority of genealogical ancestors are not genetic ancestors. This is explained further here: /info/en/?search=Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMRCA_of_all_living_humans
Hello, Sswamida. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Talk:Adam and Eve, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:22, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Well sure, but I think it is obvious that the oped I posted was in reference to a book I am author of AND I followed this guidelines! Right? Sswamida ( talk) 00:23, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
I just noticed that back in December you edited a page about yourself, in order to add a photograph. Such an edit is a clear conflict of interest. Any change to the page about you, no matter how minor or innocuous, should never be made by you. Instead, if you think something should be changed, you should suggest that change here on the Talk page, and allow a non-conflicted editor to independently decide whether the change is appropriate.
I see that COI has been raised with you before. Note that authors are stronly discouraged from incorporating their own work or material about their own work into articles, even with attribution, as it can be viewed either as self-promotion or selective whitewashing - let's face it, it is a rare person who can present a balanced review of people talking about their own work. Again, if you think such material is of value to the article, you should point out the sources on the Talk page, declaring your conflict of interest, and allow a neutral editor to reach their own conclusion on the material as it relates to inclusion. Agricolae ( talk) 19:20, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
This is the first time this specific issue was raised by me. Sorry for the confusion. I did ask on the talk page first, and no one answered. I'll contact Agricolae next time something like that comes up Sswamida ( talk) 18:32, 1 July 2022 (UTC) Sswamida ( talk)
Welcome to Wikipedia, Sswamida! Thank you for
your contributions. I am
Doug Weller and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on
my talk page. You can also check out
Wikipedia:Questions or type {{
help me}}
at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Doug Weller talk 06:34, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please read WP:VERIFY, WP:RS and WP:UNDUE. I am curious about one thing. How can there be a recent common ancestor for people who have been isolated for longer than that? Note that we can’t use article talk pages for such discussions as they aren’t forums for discussion of the subject of the article. Doug Weller talk 06:39, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi Doug. I want to be clear that I am a scientist at leading secular institution. What I posted is established mainstream science. It is surprising finding but has been well known among population geneticists for a long time. The key papers are https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02842 and https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aap/1029955256. To your question, there is no evidence that any populations have been genealogically isolated. It turns out that genealogical isolation is not observable in genetic data. Even if populations are genetically isolated, they can be genealogically mixed. In fact, the vast majority of genealogical ancestors are not genetic ancestors. This is explained further here: /info/en/?search=Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMRCA_of_all_living_humans
Hello, Sswamida. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Talk:Adam and Eve, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:22, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Well sure, but I think it is obvious that the oped I posted was in reference to a book I am author of AND I followed this guidelines! Right? Sswamida ( talk) 00:23, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
I just noticed that back in December you edited a page about yourself, in order to add a photograph. Such an edit is a clear conflict of interest. Any change to the page about you, no matter how minor or innocuous, should never be made by you. Instead, if you think something should be changed, you should suggest that change here on the Talk page, and allow a non-conflicted editor to independently decide whether the change is appropriate.
I see that COI has been raised with you before. Note that authors are stronly discouraged from incorporating their own work or material about their own work into articles, even with attribution, as it can be viewed either as self-promotion or selective whitewashing - let's face it, it is a rare person who can present a balanced review of people talking about their own work. Again, if you think such material is of value to the article, you should point out the sources on the Talk page, declaring your conflict of interest, and allow a neutral editor to reach their own conclusion on the material as it relates to inclusion. Agricolae ( talk) 19:20, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
This is the first time this specific issue was raised by me. Sorry for the confusion. I did ask on the talk page first, and no one answered. I'll contact Agricolae next time something like that comes up Sswamida ( talk) 18:32, 1 July 2022 (UTC) Sswamida ( talk)