User talk:ChrisNG53

March 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Unilateral Declaration of Independence. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unilateral_Declaration_of_Independence&action=history page history]. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. &mdash;  Abhishek  Talk 10:27, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. &mdash;  Abhishek  Talk 10:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Smith / UDI
I've reverted your additions again for the time being, simply because they are written in a way which does not conform with a "no point of view" policy such as that maintained by Wikipedia. By all means add a short section about Greenland's thoughts, if he is a reliable published source, but not a large, aggressively written section which insists that it is right, and all other views are wrong, based on a single source (Greenland). If I'm honest, I'm not sure Greenland is even a reliable source, as by your own admission he is self-published (by Lulu). Self-published sources are almost always not appropriate for Wikipedia, according to established policy. In any case, a lot of the information contained in your addition to the articles is contentious at best, and some is simply not true ("Until Smith and his Rhodesia Front party arrived on the scene, the question of full independence had not even been mooted." – full independence was actually briefly considered just after the Boer War, and offered concretely in 1952. But I digress).

In short, I and other Wikipedia editors are enthusiastic to work together to improve the articles, and would like you to help do so, but attempting to change articles in the way you have done so far does not really help, especially when it breaches Wikipedia guidelines (as your additions here did, by not appearing to even attempt to adhere to a neutral point of view). If these are indeed "indisputable facts" which you are adding, why is Greenland the only one making these allegations? Why does it make no mention of the 90%+ referendum result in favour of independence, and the unanimous vote of support for independence under the present constitution and government from over 600 tribal chiefs and izinDuna at Domboshawa? I think I have made my point.

I look forward to working with you constructively in the future, and hope this note has been helpful. —Cliftonian (talk) 15:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)