Jeandecabalis

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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!   Will Beback  talk  19:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

PS: Please note that all content we add should be verifiable using reliable published sources.   Will Beback  talk  19:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

PPS: I just looked at your major changes to Society of the Guardians.[1] Based on your username, it appears that you are writing about yourself. That makes it doubly important to have citations for your changes and additions. Reluctantly, I am going to undo your edits pending sources that can confirm the changes you wrote about.   Will Beback  talk  19:54, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

I see you did add one footnote to "'Introduction to the Magick and Qabalah of the Guardians' by Jean de Cabalis, Published Lulu Press 2011'". However self-published sources may not be used.   Will Beback  talk  19:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Verifiability, etc

Wikipedia requires that all material be verifiable from reliable published sources. See WP:Verifiability. The reasons for that rule are complex, and intertwined with other, equally important, rules. Some of it comes down to the issue of "if a tree falls in a forest, and there's no one to hear it, did it really fall?". This encyclopedia has decided that it will only cover tree falls that have been heard. Another aspect is that requiring published sources created a filter to keep out the infinite amount of trivia that exists outside of published material. Why would anyone want to read an encyclopedia article which says gives your drivers license number? That's not what encyclopedias are for. Getting back to the topic at hand, I see you've added more material from a self-published source of the type which we can't use. Please read WP:IRS for a guideline on identifying reliable sources. Further, links to several sources at http://etoile.topcities.com are no longer accessible. If that's the official website then it'd help to get it back online. One exception to the rule forbidding self published sources is those published by the subject itself. Non-controversial assertions that aren't self-serving may be cited to that website.

Lastly, please also read WP:COI. If you are the head of this group then you probably are not the best person to be writing about it in a dispassionate, objective fashion. Since articles should be based entirely on published sources, a perfectly good article can be created by someone who knows nothing of the group beyond what they've read. Instead, it'd be better to find different topics to which you have less connection if you want to contribute to Wikipedia. If your only interest is that article, and you think the article needs significant revision, then I suggest posting a note asking for help at a relevant project, such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kabbalah. You might be able to interest someone else in making the changes you think are necessary.   Will Beback  talk  04:26, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello there Jean, a similar point arises on your recent edit to Alex Sanders (Wiccan). Your edit summary says: Ref: Soror Moonshee & Nigel Jackson emails: 2005 but I'm afraid these private emails (unless published somewhere by an accessible reliable source) are not appropriate for the reasons the Fuzzypeg has outlined to you elsewhere. Do you have a better source for this information? Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 19:58, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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