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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 14:35, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Era style changes BC/AD vs. BCE/CE

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Your edits today on several articles are all in violation of WP:ERA and have been reverted. Prevailing era designations are not errors to be corrected, and changing them is not a matter of personal preference. Per WP:ERA, consensus is needed before changing the era style established in an article. Please refrain from making any more such edits without first obtaining consensus for the change. Thank you. Hertz1888 (talk) 14:21, 6 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

May 2017

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  Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that a recent edit of yours has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 14:35, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Hello, I'm Tgeorgescu. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Jesus seemed less than neutral to me, so it has been removed it for now. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. If you have any doubts about this matter take it to WP:NPOVN. Tgeorgescu (talk) 16:49, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Notice of Neutral point of view noticeboard discussion

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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 17:06, 10 May 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.
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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.

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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) 19:10, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hello, this is Daniel Klimovich. Thank you Tgeorgescy. Also, I was wondering, are you a staff member a Wikipedia. Just curious.
Daniel Klimovich 19:31, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Daniel Klimovich
No, I'm just a volunteer editor (unpaid), I am not even an admin. Tgeorgescu (talk) 21:38, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Your edit summaries are misleading

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I'm sure you know what a typo is. You are claiming to be fixing typos but I don't see any typos being fixed. Please use edit summaries correctly, ie explain your edits. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 15:14, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, per WP:OVERLINK and WP:DUPLINK, it is not necessary to link to someone's country of birth in the infobox, as you have been frequently doing. It is better to leave US or U.S. unlinked. Cheers – Broccoli & Coffee (Oh hai) 00:00, 3 February 2019 (UTC)Reply