User talk:Swiftstar1142

Welcome

Hello, Swiftstar1142, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and have been reverted. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

If you are stuck and looking for help, please see the guide for citing sources or come to the new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 17:36, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

July 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Indigo children, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Cresix (talk) 17:10, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Indigo children. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Cresix (talk) 17:10, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Indigo children. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Cresix (talk) 17:45, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some advice

If information has a source, you don't remove it unless you have more reliable and sourced information that proves it wrong, and a few other editors agreeing with you. Information with sources can be identified with the <ref>references</ref> that follow it. When you add info, it's a good idea to put your sources (at least the name of the book, the author, and the publisher, preferably the page number as well) in reference tags at the end of the information you added. If you wish to remove sourced info from an article go to the article's discussion page (up at the top), create a new section, quote what you want to remove, and explain why. It's helpful if you have sources explaining that this information is wrong (don't use <ref>reference tags</ref> on talk pages though, it ends up being hard to read). Finally, we have a policy about maintaining a neutral point of view. This means that if most of the scientific sources do not accept something as scientifically sound, we do not report it as being accepted science, even if the folks advocating that theory like to think it is.

For more information, you may want to look at our guidelines for identifying and citing reliable sources, our neutral point of view policy, and our guidelines concerning fringe theories. Finally, when leaving messages on talk pages (but not in articles), please sign your posts in talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This code will place your username, a link to your talk page, and a timestamp, and saves poor SineBot from having to do more work. I see you have already asked Dougweller for help, and if you are welcome to leave questions on my talk page as well. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:51, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]