User talk:Jcallihan1

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Hello, Jcallihan1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for User talk:Escape Orbit. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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July 2011

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Falcon8765 ^(TALK) 23:35, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for coming to Wikipedia to help out. You're most welcome here and you'll find that with a little attention to the rules there's lots of good rewarding work, even if you can't always achieve what you first set out to do. Regarding the caution above, please also: (1) engage in the WP:CONSENSUS process when you wish to make a disputed change to an article. A preferred way of proposing things and gaining consensus is explained in the essay WP:BRD, although to be frank, the edits you are proposing are original research, in that you are examining a primary document and stating your own analysis of its contents. Legal documents are almost always primary, and need specialized interpretation to be understandable to the lay reader, which on Wikipedia requires a reliable third party source to explain what the document means and why it is relevant to the subject. (2) Read the note on the talk page of the article in question regarding "article probation". Obama-related articles are under a heightened standard for following civil, collaborative editing process. (3) In the meanwhile, please do not edit war. If you continue, an administrator may temporarily block your account from further editing the encyclopedia to avoid disruption / instability to the article. Thanks, - Wikidemon (talk) 23:46, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Original Synthesis

Thank you for your message. To explain the problem; whether there are numerous sources with a definition of "natural born" or not isn't the issue. You need a source that discusses them specifically in connection with Obama. Connecting sources that do not do this with the case of the US President is original synthesis. Specifically;

It is a requirement that the US President be "natural born". (cite A)
Here is a definition of "natural born". (cite B)
Therefore, it is suggested, the current US President should meet this definition. (uncited original synthesis of A+B)

This counts as original research which is not permissible on an encyclopaedia. Wikipedia only summarises arguments that have already been constructed (or reported) by reliable sources. Not arguments that have been constructed within Wikipedia itself. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 09:24, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]