User talk:AllHerNamesz

Welcome![edit]

Hello, AllHerNamesz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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A summary of site policies and guidelines[edit]

"Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
Always cite a source for any new information. When adding this information to articles, use <ref>reference tags like this</ref>, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable).
A subject is considered notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.
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. This also means giving only due weight to a topic according to how much coverage it receives in sources.

Your additions to List of messiah claimants were reverted because many of the sources were self-published and so not appropriate for determining if a subject is notable. Had the additions been notable, there was also undue weight. The entries in List of messiah claimants merely identify who the individuals are, when they lived, explain what sort of messianic claim is made about them, and no more than a couple of additional facts about them (rarely even that). The point is to merely list them and direct the reader to existing articles and references for more information.

Ian.thomson (talk) 21:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]