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Edits to Gospel of Jesus' Wife
[edit]Hi John. The section you added to Gospel of Jesus' Wife includes information already included elsewhere in the article - in effect, it duplicates the information, citing a less reliable/expert source (a news blog). I'm going to roll it back, with a view to encouraging to you add the information again, but with better sourcing and without the editorialising which effectively summarises the views of (admittedly expert) bloggers with regard to someone else's conclusions. To be clear, they did not "determine" anything - they simply agreed with others who had previously. St★lwart111 07:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
- For better or worse (no pun intended), the article reasonably accurately reflects the volume of news coverage with regard to each position and each element of the history of the fragment to date. There was significant coverage of the original announcement, subsequent analysis (including dating) and subsequent commentary. There has not been as much coverage of more recent commentary, mostly because the recent commentary came long after many established experts had determined (in their own minds) that the fragment was a fake. They saw no need to continue commenting. We generally wouldn't cite Evans' work directly with our own interpretations, we cite secondary sources talking about Evans' work. You need to be very careful about the presentation of "scientific data". Wikipedia doesn't publish original thought or research in its primary form. The dating work is covered in detail because secondary sources cover it in detail. St★lwart111 04:38, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
- Hm. I'm not following. In your initial post you have stated that admittedly expert bloggers commenting on someone else's conclusions were one of the reasons for the reversion. However, I'm finding that by not quoting directly from the source, the wikipedia article in question is in fact using expert bloggers or articles commenting on others conclusions. Can you give me clarification as to how to follow the guideliness you've given?
- The issue was that the conclusions were presented as the conclusions of the authors when in fact they were the conclusions of others, being agreed to by the authors. Presenting the original conclusions would be okay (without editorialising) and presenting the commentary as commentary would be fine also. The section you just added to the article is fine. It's a direct and accurate quote without any editorialising whatsoever. I'm sorry if my explanations were somewhat confusing, but you seem to have understood exactly what you needed to do regardless of my muddling! A good result! St★lwart111 05:21, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, Stallwart.
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