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July 2012

Thank you for your contributions. One of your recent contributions to Progress (history) has been reverted or removed, because it contains speculative or unconfirmed information about a future event. Wikipedia has a policy called "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball", which discourages such edits. Please only add material about future events if it is verifiable, based on a reference to a reliable source. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I have reverted your edit to Transhumanism, because without sourcing or explanation, the link to Progress is a bit too broad a leap to include. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Morality. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:14, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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