User talk:Leanminim
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Happy editing! Ian.thomson (talk) 22:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia uses mainstream sources
[edit]Please look for some mainstream academic sources and maybe stick to other topics until you get them. See WP:Identifying reliable sources for more info. There's also a section in a guide I wrote that covers finding sources.
Wikipedia takes a very low view of fringe claims. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources is a good guide, see what it says about Medium, a source you used. Doug Weller talk 17:48, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
- I see you cited Laurence Waddell at Menes. His books on Tibetan Buddhism are not-bad introductions but his ideas on history were recognized as utterly wrong at the time. Between that, the theosophically-derived source you cited at Druids, and your citation of this source (which in turn cites Higgins) at Godfrey Higgins, I strongly suggest that you avoid editing any history related articles until you find and read books published by academic publishers or university presses and written within your lifetime. To be frank, you are citing sources that are to history what Phrenology is to neurology and Hollow Earth is to geography. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:13, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
September 2020
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Hello Leanminim. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Leanminim. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Leanminim|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. GSS 💬 16:24, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- You need to stop adding stuff that claims the Druids where the 'first civilized race'. It was colonialist propaganda then, and it's white supremacist propaganda now. Stop editing historical articles until you have learned some real history instead of magical garbage. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:52, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
November 2020
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