User talk:MaxJTracy
Welcome
[edit]Hello, MaxJTracy, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Reliable sources are needed
[edit]Content in articles need to be supported by reliably published sources. Self published content such as scribid is completely unacceptable. Bergsteins promotional ID from his op ed pieces is completely inappropriate for promotional claims about him etc. Wikipedia is NOT an advertising platform to gild his lily, content must be presented from a neutral point of view. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:55, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
- We are not here to provide "equal time" - we present what the mainstream, academic view of the subject. If the mainstream academic view is "one sided", that is what the article will present. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:22, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
- The best way to move forward is to present your suggestions on the talk page. Bite sized changes/additions with the appropriate sources, and wait for discussion and consensus. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:29, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
March 2014
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to David Bergstein, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. -- Atama頭 15:26, 11 April 2014 (UTC)