User talk:Charles M. Hansen

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did in your edit of Revision as of 10:22, 16 September 2013 for Mima mounds. Your edits consisted entirely of original research, which is not allowed in wikipedia articles as discussed in No original research and have been removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.Paul H. (talk) 12:20, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Mima Mounds
Wikipedia is not a venue for original ideas, and in general sources must discuss the subject of the article, which your sources clearly do not. Minor points about your edit are that we don't use our own articles as sources (see WP:RS, we don't add suggestions for further research, and you need to follow the citation format of the article. We also don't write articles in the first person, nor do we put our name in an edit. You also have a conflict of interest in using your own material - see WP:COI which means you should have suggested the edit on the talk page.

New editors often misunderstand the way Wikipedia works, and I can understand why you have made these edits. But you've been reverted by 2 different editors and I would also have reverted you if I ran into your edits first. You obviously are an expert in your field and if you ever have an article on this published in an academic journal it could probably be used in this article. Please consider it. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 08:20, 18 September 2013 (UTC)