User talk:AnnaMariaPerez

Welcome![edit]

Hello, AnnaMariaPerez, 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 recent edits to the page Book of Genesis have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other 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. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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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 need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask a question on your talk page. Again, welcome. Kleuske (talk) 13:51, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A summary of site policies and guidelines you may find useful[edit]

Please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~, found next to the 1 key), and please do not alter other's comments.
"Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
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Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. This usually means that secular academia is given prominence over any individual sect's doctrines, though those doctrines may be discussed in an appropriate section that clearly labels those beliefs for what they are.

Reformulated:

"Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
Always cite a source for any new information. When adding this information to articles, use <ref>reference tags like this</ref>, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable).
We do not publish original thought nor original research. We're not a blog, we're not here to promote any ideology.
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Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment).
Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. Real scholarship actually does not say what understanding of the world is "true," but only with what there is evidence for. In the case of science, this evidence must ultimately start with physical evidence. In the case of religion, this means only reporting what has been written and not taking any stance on doctrine.
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We do not give equal validity to topics which reject and are rejected by mainstream academia. For example, our article on Earth does not pretend it is flat, hollow, and/or the center of the universe.

Also, not a policy or guideline, but something important to understand the above policies and guidelines: Wikipedia operates off of objective information, which is information that multiple persons can examine and agree upon. It does not include subjective information, which only an individual can know from an "inner" or personal experience. Most religious beliefs fall under subjective information. Wikipedia may document objective statements about notable subjective claims (i.e. "Christians believe Jesus is divine"), but it does not pretend that subjective statements are objective, and will expose false statements masquerading as subjective beliefs (cf. Indigo children).

You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. We at Wikipedia are highbrow (snobby), heavily biased for the academia. Tgeorgescu (talk) 14:55, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018[edit]

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Ken Ham. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 12:29, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

October 2018[edit]

Hello Anna-Maria. "I expect I will be banned now." Likely not for that sole edit (that another editor reverted). The problem however is that your edit history only shows similar edits or complaints. If you are here for the encyclopedia (WP:HERE), the main role of WP editors is to help the project in accordance with its policies. The above messages (the welcome one, as well as Tgeorgescu's) have a lot of related information. Wikipedia is not for soapboxing, promotion or for activism. The material you are contesting is also well supported by what Wikipedia policies consider to be reliable sources (WP:RS), which is what matters. I suggest editing in areas where you are less likely to be offended by mainstream knowledge and where you do not feel that you have a confict of interest (WP:COI, for instance, I try to avoid many computer science related articles where I'm likely to insert essay-like material and editorials, or would be tempted to cite my own literature). There are many things one can do on Wikipedia, my user page has some links in relation to such in "Venues". —Paleo Neonate – 21:54, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020[edit]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 15:13, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Brian Sapient[edit]

Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you removed a talk page message of mine from a discussion at Talk:Brian Sapient, and without specifying a reason for this in any edit summary. Please do not do this, as it is not permitted on Wikipedia. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 16:13, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021[edit]

Hello, I'm User3749. I noticed that you made a comment on the page User talk:AnnaMariaPerez that didn't seem very civil, so it may have been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. User3749 (talk) 13:09, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently adding unsourced or poorly sourced content.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:51, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]