Vaxorian

January 2020

Hello, I'm Bonadea. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Book of Genesis seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 21:35, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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Reformulated:

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

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If you are here to promote pseudoscience, extremism, fundamentalism or conspiracy theories, we're not interested in what you have to say. Tgeorgescu (talk) 01 January 2020 21:42:24 (UTC)

January 2020

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Book of Ruth. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 22:15, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Book of Ruth. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 22:16, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Vaxorian, please use article talk pages, not my user talk page, to discuss article content. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 22:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vaxorian, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Tgeorgescu (talk) 22:19, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Restoration

I suppose you are already aware of the fact that an investigation of sock puppetry has been launched against me. This investigation is due to the fact that you restored my edit to the Book of Ruth article (which was reverted by Tgeorgescu for being original research, while in reality it wasn't original research) back to its rightful position. Tgeorgescu thinks that this is evidence of sock puppetry, which it isn't. This section is evidence against sock puppetry, because I am referring to you in second-person pronouns. Also, if the account that this talk page belonged to was also owned by me, there would be no point in creating this section. Primal Groudon (talk) 21:02, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm not accusing either of you of being a sockpuppet, but those of us involved with them have seen a number of sockmasters create socks who fight among each other and revert each other's edits. @Primal Groudon:, your comments above don't prove anything. Doug Weller talk 16:25, 4 January 2020 (UTC)