User talk:01Mary02

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I would like to know why the comments I added under Jehovah's Witnesses were removed. Everything I added was referenced and is easily verifiable. Just because it shows the religion in a less-than-flattering light should not be reason to delete the comments, especially as they came from their own literature. 01Mary02 (talk) 01:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Verifiability is only one of the pillars of Wikipedia, and by itself isn't sufficient. I reverted your contributions because they violated Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, particularly the part about undue weight. You also inserted your own editorial comments ("This, of course, is ridiculous...").
 * If you want to make such drastic and controversial changes to an article, then propose your changes on the article's talk page first. If you have an axe to grind, and are intent on inserting your own personal bias into the article, you are encouraged to find other articles that you can edit more neutrally. ~Amatulić (talk) 14:53, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

So a person is not even allowed to openly say that a crazy belief "is ridiculous"??

And I hardly think my comments were "drastic" or "controversial", simply because I used their own literature to prove my point. How exactly is that being "controversial"? What I wrote was not my "own personal bias", nor is it an "axe to grind" it was completely FACTUAL, backed up by articles which I referenced.

I found what WAS written in there about education, completely unrealistic and certainly not factual. And the section on pedophilia was all documented with references including that of the WTS's own website. If you wanted to delete my comment on "this of course is ridiculous", then I have no problem (petty as it might be), but there is no justification for deleting the other comments I added. I was not rude, threatening and I did not insert my own opinion on those topics---it's factual.

I would like to request that someone else take a look at what I wrote.

Thanking you in advance.


 * You can't openly say something is ridiculous because it's an unattributed personal claim. You can write that some reliable source says something is ridiculous. You didn't do that; instead, you wrote your own opinion.
 * Please read the policy Neutral point of view. What you wrote about may deserve some mention, but we have this part of the policy called "undue weight" which prohibits articles from containing too much peripheral information. And what you wrote was peripheral. That's why we have articles on other related topics, such as Controversies regarding Jehovah's Witnesses &mdash; which would have been more appropriate for your edits, minus your editorializing. The purpose of Wikipedia articles is not to "prove a point" but to present relevant facts. What you wrote wasn't really relevant to that particular article.
 * To have someone else review what you wrote, propose it on the article's talk page. It's that simple. You can also provide a link to the diff showing your edit instead of reproducing it on the talk page if you want, like this link. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:25, 10 July 2008 (UTC)