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Hello, Jasonmichaels2001, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! —PaleoNeonate - 07:09, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 2017

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Information icon Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Ken Ham, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Bennv3771 (talk) 06:47, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please note that what should/should not be included in the lede for the Ken Ham article has been discussed extensively on Talk:Ken Ham and the current lede therefore has consensus among editors. If you disagree with it, then per WP:BRD, please restart the discussion at Talk:Ken Ham and gain a new consensus first before making changes again. Thanks. Bennv3771 (talk) 06:52, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Information icon Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Creation–evolution controversy. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. —PaleoNeonate - 07:07, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A summary of site policies and guidelines you may find useful

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  • 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.
  • We do not publish original thought nor original research. We merely summarize reliable sources without elaboration or interpretation.
  • 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. 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.

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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). Tgeorgescu (talk) 09:07, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. Tgeorgescu (talk) 09:10, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]