Havensdad

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Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 06:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Teleological argument appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 17:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Teleological argument. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 17:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

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January 2013

Your recent editing history at Ecclesiastes shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Dougweller (talk) 06:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

NPOV noticeboard

Thanks for the thoughtful statement of the dispute on the NPOV noticeboard. I did a few minor edits and will reply soon. I notice, however, that the NPOV forum has a serious backlog problem, and I think it might be more useful to ask for a mediator, someone with knowledge of the subject who can make an informed and impartial set of suggestions. You might approach any of the editors who have posted on the Talk page of Ecclesiastes, since the fact of posting shows an interest. PiCo (talk) 00:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Coding

I assume you mean how to make a link that takes the reader to some other place in the Internet. There are two parts. First you put the url, which you copy from the address line on the target page. Then whatever prose you want to put yourself describing the target. The two are separated by a single space, and enclosed in single square brackets. Like this. PiCo (talk) 01:57, 5 January 2013 (UTC)