User talk:NRAPA33

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April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to ExxonMobil, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Anastrophe (talk) 03:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Chevron Corporation appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. as stated in edit summary, the lede of an article is a summary of the MAJOR points in the BODY of the article. your material may be sourced, but it is not covered to any substantial degree in the body of the article. as such, it misrepresents the article. feel free to build up a more substantial section on chevron's green initiatives within the BODY of the article. if it becomes significant in coverage, then it would be appropriate to mention in the lede. Anastrophe (talk) 22:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i understand what you're saying, but you must realize that wikipedia is not here to 'commend' anyone for anything. it is an encyclopedia. please read WP:MOS. the lede of the article is to be as i describe above. you can't add information to the lede in advance of that information being covered significantly within the body. a desire to 'commend' chevron for green efforts constitutes attempting to impose a particular POV without sufficient WP:WEIGHT within the body to support it. after there is sufficience coverage within the body of the article, then you may add mention of this to the lede - but again, only if there is significant coverage in place first. Anastrophe (talk) 04:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

plagiarism

the material you just added constitutes plagiarism. adding large blocks of text from the cited material, without it being identified as quotes, is not acceptable. neither is synthesizing a 'faux' non-plagiarized section by mixing various section and quotes together. this is attempt to create weight from a single cited article, without properly identifying that most of the material is directly pulled from the article. please stop. these are grounds for sanctions and blocking from further editing. Anastrophe (talk) 04:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

please stop

please stop bombing my user talk page. discuss the article on the article talk page. the source i reverted is obviously and patently not a WP:RS. i'll happily take it to the reliable sources noticeboard. please continue further discussion on the article talk page. Anastrophe (talk) 00:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the article talk page is right there with the article. visit the chevron article. up along the top there's a tab for 'discussion'. just like a user talk page. here's a direct link: talk:Chevron but it's better to use the tabs. Anastrophe (talk) 01:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

note also that the convention on talk pages is to add material to the bottom of the page. if you visit the chevron discussion page, you'll see i've already added a new section regarding this matter. Anastrophe (talk) 01:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]