User talk:Pianoisland

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June 2009

Please review the policy on original research and reliable sources. If that's your own material, then it's original research. You might also want to check out this link [1] which has the same text verbatim. DP76764 (Talk) 19:40, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's why I pointed you to WP:RS and WP:OR as well; putting your own writing on Wikipedia isn't generally the way to do things. The best way to do it is to find reliable source and summarize what it says on a topic. Otherwise, anyone could just put anything up (I know Stephen likes his Wikiality, but that's not quite how it works here, hehe). Keep in mind that "the threshold for inclusion on Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth". So what was up with that link? Did they 'borrow' your material or something? That was the only place I could find that particular paragraph online. DP76764 (Talk) 20:30, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]