User talk:Aegisint

Aegisint, the world isn't picking on you for your opinion. It's your style of posting and seeming unfamiliarity with Wikipedia conventions. Please click on the History tab for Myki. HiLo48 (talk) 09:39, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Aegisint, please do not post comments and complaints about other users into articles, as you did here and. We provide a discussion page on every article which is the place to discuss the article, make suggestions, etc. You can find the article's discussion page by clicking on the "discussion" link at the top of the article (on some other non-article pages such as this user talk page, the discussion page will be called "talk"). Once you've opened the discussion page, simply click the "edit" tab, type in your comment, type in four tildes ( ~ ) to sign your comment (when you save the page, the software will convert the four tildes into your username and the time and date you posted) and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "save page" button. Other editors will reply to you on the discussion page.

Also, I've had a look through your edits and the reason your edits were removed were not due to some grand conspiracy but because you cited no sources for them. Wikipedia only reports what has already been published in sources known as "reliable sources", that is, secondary, independent, verifiable third party sources, for example, newspaper, journal articles, books from reputable publishers etc. This is really non-negotiable and if you don't cite reliable sources for your content, your edits can and most likely will be removed by other contributors, especially on a controversial current event like the Myki issue. We do not accept original research, first-hand personal knowledge and information or any material that hasn't first been published by reliable sources, so if you're not able to cite a verifiable source for your material, it's really not worth bothering to post it because it will just be reverted by other editors.

Please also be aware that other users don't need to obtain your approval to remove your contributions, as you stated here. Wikipedia is not "a democratic media". It is a privately owned website with a very focused and narrow purpose of building a neutral, free, encyclopedia and we have policies and rules here that are most "undemocratic" and people will be completely within policy to remove your edits if they don't comply with out rules, so if you want your edits to stay in articles, you need to ensure that you edit according to our rules and write from a neutral point of view and cite sources. You will find some introductory links in the welcome message above and if I can answer any questions or assist you here, please feel free to let me know. Sarah 10:16, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * A minor clarification. The relevant tab on an article's page is actually called Discussion, not Talk. It seems those two terms are used interchangeably here. HiLo48 (talk) 11:29, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks HiLo48, I've tried to clear that up a bit. Cheers, Sarah 11:49, 1 January 2010 (UTC)