ELCLant

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Hello, ELCLant, 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 your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 19:26, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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Ian.thomson (talk) 19:26, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

June 2014

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Religion. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:50, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Religion, you may be blocked from editing. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:37, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

I have started a discussion at Talk:Religion#Attempts_to_change_the_definition regarding your attempts to change the introductory definition, if you care to justify your actions. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:55, 24 June 2014 (UTC)