User talk:Ibonewits

Welcome

Hello, Ibonewits! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Pigman☿ 01:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

More personal welcome

Hi Isaac (assuming you are Isaac Bonewits, something difficult to authenticate on an open account like this one). Before you start changing too much on the Isaac Bonewits article, you should know that there are guidelines for autobiographical contributions to Wikipedia. I strongly suggest you contribute to the Talk:Isaac Bonewits page rather than the actual Wikipedia entry. I can see you've already contributed material which is original research and attributed it to yourself. Unfortunately, other Wikipedia editors cannot verify whether the material is true because there are no verifiable and reliable independent sources. This is one reason why people are advised to limit or be very careful about autobiographical editing: You may know something is true but other editors can't double check it. This also brings me to the biographies of living persons policy. If there is any question about the verifiability or accuracy of facts about a living person, Wikipedians are encouraged, nay, expected to cut possibly controversial or libelous material immediately and without question or warning.

If you have any questions about Wikipedia, please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Cheers, Pigman☿ 01:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Please pay attention

I want you to carefully look at the following policies and guidelines before making any more edits to the Isaac Bonewits article:

• No original research
• Verifiable sources and reliable sources
• Neutral point of view
• Biographies of living persons

These are important and basic policies relating to article content. The first paragraph of the Wikipedia Verifiability policy reads:

"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that readers should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed."

Your own website is not a reliable source in this case. You are perfectly welcome to question the sources already used in the article if you think they do not meet Wikipedia standards. If the sources aren't reliable, the information those sources purport to support will be cut completely.

I'm not trying to tell you what to do but if you don't follow basic policies about how to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, it is likely that your changes and edits will be removed or changed by other editors. Please, if you have any questions about this or anything else, leave a message on my talk page. Cheers, Pigman☿ 03:30, 28 January 2008 (UTC)