User talk:NeilSadhan
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[edit]Hello, NeilSadhan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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[edit]- "Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
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Your edits to Shramana were reverted because discussing improvements or changes to the article is done on the article talk page (where you make new posts at the bottom, signing with four tildes, or ~~~~). The article talk page may be found by looking to the top left hand side of the article. Please be sure in the future to discuss the article on it's talk page instead of in the article. Also, please be sure to site secondary sources, especially when it comes to religious doctrine or history, as primary sources open the door to original reearch. Furthermore, there is no "the" author of Wikipedia, there are thousands of editors. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:58, 12 November 2012 (UTC)