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A belated welcome!

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The welcome may be belated, but the cookies are still warm!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, BenSWiki. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 11:56, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the corrections! Shabbat Shalom, Dovi (talk) 11:16, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Colin Humphreys

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Please take a look at WP:NOR and WP:VERIFY to see why I reverted you. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:56, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages

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Hi Ben - I've seen your discussion on my talk page. If you want to discuss the article, please start a new section on the article's talk page (there should be a menu option to let you do that) and post there. I've also removed your post in reply to an IP as well as the IP's post, because talk pages should be only about how to improve the article, not the subject of the article. I should have removed the IP's post before but I hadn't noticed it. Doug Weller talk 07:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A summary of site policies and guidelines you may find useful

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  • Please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~, found next to the 1 key), and please do not alter other's comments.
  • "Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
  • We do not publish original thought nor original research. We merely summarize reliable sources without elaboration or interpretation.
  • Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment).
  • Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. This usually means that secular academia is given prominence over any individual sect's doctrines, though those doctrines may be discussed in an appropriate section that clearly labels those beliefs for what they are.

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Also, not a policy or guideline, but something important to understand the above policies and guidelines: Wikipedia operates off of objective information, which is information that multiple persons can examine and agree upon. It does not include subjective information, which only an individual can know from an "inner" or personal experience. Most religious beliefs fall under subjective information. Wikipedia may document objective statements about notable subjective claims (i.e. "Christians believe Jesus is divine"), but it does not pretend that subjective statements are objective, and will expose false statements masquerading as subjective beliefs (cf. Indigo children).

You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. We at Wikipedia are highbrow (snobby), heavily biased for the academia. Tgeorgescu (talk) 06:16, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]