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@Ninney: Which edit of mine are you referring to? ȸ (talk) 05:29, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I am not referring too any particular edit ... just thought of Welcoming you to Wikpedia. I had used one of the Welcome templates & the wordings are from the templates. Happy Editing! - Ninney (talk) 10:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Reply


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Stating claims as fact edit

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Is one given source is quite adequate under guidelines: Yes you can write anything and source it quite liberally, but when it comes to claiming something as fact and marking it as someone's convictions be it marxist or atheist or even hindu the rules are as follows:


To use multiple sources and try to cite scholarly consensus


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WP:CHERRY fact picking. Instead of finding a balanced set of information about the subject, a coatrack goes out of its way to find facts that support a particular bias. An appropriate response to a coatrack article is to be bold and trim off excessive biased content
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Any analysis or interpretation of the quoted material, however, should rely on a secondary source (See: WP:No original research)
ps
I apologise if I seemed a bit harsh in my assertive directness but I have been deeply disturbed by the low level I have observed when odds and ends have been freely presented as certainties.
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