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.
  • We do not publish original thought nor original research. We merely summarize reliable sources without elaboration or interpretation.
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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).

You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. We at Wikipedia are highbrow (snobby), heavily biased for the academia.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. All we do here is cite, summarize, and paraphrase professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources, without addition, nor commentary. We're not a directory, nor a forum, nor a place for you to "spread the word". Tgeorgescu (talk) 05:48, 24 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

In place of an apology

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"No, you may not, and you will get blocked and eventually banned if you persist. " Great way to start a talk page with threats. May I remind you that Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers is a behavioral guideline? Dimadick (talk) 09:55, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Frankly, some editors start in a way that blocks and bans are unavoidable if they do not change their own mind about their edits. I want them to know very clearly what they should expect and what they can do to avoid being blocked and banned. Of course, the choice is theirs. I prefer giving them the full information rather than hide it from them. To be sure: I started just like him/her, but I was prepared to learn from experienced editors who told me what's wrong with my edits. You see, it is not lack of experience that gets one blocked, but stubbornness. Tgeorgescu (talk) 10:55, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Copy/pasted from Talk:Historicity of the Bible. Tgeorgescu (talk) 11:00, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

A suggestion

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The above, and the result at the article's talk page was a lot of text and may be confusing. In short, I suggest making more specific suggestions at article talk pages, including citations that could be evaluated. This is because the material of the encyclopedia must summarize the view of notable mainstream scholars and include references for verification. I hope this helps, and welcome, —PaleoNeonate02:28, 27 May 2019 (UTC)Reply