User talk:Aleitheiophile

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Intelligent Design
Please stop and discuss your concerns on the talk page rather than continuing to add the disputed material to intellegent design. Vsmith (talk) 23:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I added a comment there. Basically, your recent edit violated the guidelines Avoid peacock terms and Avoid weasel words. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * There were significant concerns on the talk page about your previous edits- this new one continued to add a whole new element to the article, and so changed the overall tone. As both a controversial topic and a featured article, I would reccomend you discuss your proposed changes on the talk page before making them. J Milburn (talk) 21:12, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I was not aware that changing the tone violated any standards. Perhaps I misunderstand you, but a whole new element can be a positive change. I mean no disrespect; I'm merely trying to navigate this hazy matter of policies and edits.Aleitheiophile (talk) 21:19, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Articles should be written from the neutral point of view, and, as a rule of thumb, an article is neutral if you can't tell where the opinions of the author lie. Perhaps I am jumping to conclusions, but I take it you are personally sympathetic towards ID? Adding whole new elements is, 999/1000, a good thing- you just happen to have chosen a rather rough article to edit for your introduction to Wikipedia- there are plenty of administrators who wouldn't touch anything related to intelligent design with a ten foot pole! This editors maintaining this article have fought hard to keep bias and other negative influences out of it, and so new additions of major statements/changes of tone, like the ones you are adding, should really be discussed on the talk page. I reccomend you head there now- though I am familiar with the subject matter, I am not particularly involved with the article- any discussion about potential changes should really take place on the article talk page. J Milburn (talk) 21:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)