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Also, FYI, I'm tagging Talk:David Berlinski/Comments for deletion since this should be in the general talk page. It would help if you raised specific issues about the article rather than made general remarks. JoshuaZ (talk) 18:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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Reformulated:

• "Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
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• Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment).
• Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. Real scholarship actually does not say what understanding of the world is "true," but only with what there is evidence for. In the case of science, this evidence must ultimately start with physical evidence. In the case of religion, this means only reporting what has been written and not taking any stance on doctrine.
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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) 02:55, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Religious views on pornography, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:55, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Just to make sure you understand: the Bible isn't a reliable source for anything inside Wikipedia. Religious primary sources should be avoided, their analysis should be left to WP:SECONDARY sources. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:55, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Religious views on pornography, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Religious views on pornography, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. JudgeRM (talk to me) 23:59, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Religious views on pornography

This is Wikimedia's server, not Judaism's. The English Wikipedia's server is on US soil and is not bound by Judaism law. The references on the article appear to be sound, so please don't remove it again. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 00:04, 21 December 2016 (UTC)