User talk:Beechleaf

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Hello, Beechleaf, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Sarah (talk) 06:23, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
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Unsourced edits
Please include links to reliable sources when adding or expanding on content--unsourced content is vulnerable to deletion. Specific to the current edits, while the prohibition on using the word is generously sourced, the claim their continued use in the translation of Jewish sources is both insulting to Jewish tradition and a complete perversion of the meaning of these sources goes considerably further, and is not accompanied by sources. More generally, you appear to have added much useful content to numerous articles, but all contributions require proper sourcing, per WP:RELIABLE. Thank you, 99.137.209.191 (talk) 17:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Regarding your edits to Yahweh
Please cite reliable sources for your claims, especially when they completely contradict reliably sourced information in the article.

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Ian.thomson (talk) 17:24, 31 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Indeed. I'm concerned that immediately following my explanations above, you proceeded with this edit . 99.137.209.191 (talk) 17:27, 31 July 2012 (UTC)