User talk:2.97.32.63

Help me!
Please help me with some editing. I have tried to add a single sentence of information to a Wikipedia page on multiple occasions, but it keeps on getting deleted. Now, all of a sudden, it won't let me edit the page anymore and I can't find out why. My information was true, interesting, and harmless, so what's the problem? Please enlighten me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim

2.97.32.63 (talk) 05:22, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


 * If you are asking about a particular page, please provide a link and/or your on-wiki username to make it easier for our volunteers to assist you. Scottyoak2 (talk) 05:32, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Hi IP, you have no other edits form this IP. If you could link to the article, we can have a look at it. You may reopen this help request by changing the above  back to  . Sam Sailor 09:51, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * From the history of that page, it looks like you've been trying to add something without providing a reference. After seeing this happen a number of times, the page was temporarily protected so that IP users could not edit it.
 * So, the first thing you should do is learn how to see the edit history. The link for that page is at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elohim&action=history but you can always get to a page's history by clicking on the "View history" button in the desktop version of the WP site. (Can probably get there from the mobile version, but I don't use that.) You'll see that each entry in the history has a place for an "edit summary", where editors give (usually) a reason for their action. Your edits were being reversed as "unsourced".
 * The next thing to understand is that Wikipedia runs on references to reliable sources. Tha authority of any individual editor, anonymous or not, has to be completely discounted. To make a contribution to WP, you need to cite a suitable source that supports the change. You are not allowed to contribute stuff you just happen to know out of your own knowledge. It may seem odd, but whether or not something is "true" is never part of the consideration, at least not directly. Instead, we substitute "did a reliable source state this? Was this fact published somewhere that an interested reader could find it?"
 * So, if you wish to pursue this particular edit, you need to go back and find someplace where you learned it it the first place or someplace else that states the same thing. It's better if it's online, but we accept off-line sources, sources in other languages than English, as long as sufficient bibliographic information is included.
 * I realize that some of this may seem counter-intuitive, or, at least, not quite what you expected when you started out trying to add some knowledge to Wikipedia. Please don't be frustrated or feel like someone is out to defeat you. We want you to succeed at becoming a contributor.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 06:02, 8 June 2018 (UTC)