User talk:Foldedhippo

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Our policy on sources
Hi - new editors are often surprised to find that our policies and guidelines constrain editing here. One of our fundamental policies has to do with what we call reliable sources. If you read WP:VERIFY and WP:RS you will see that we can't accept material based on self-published works. And our policy at WP:NPOV means that a new idea, even if published by a reliable source, might not be suitable for inclusion until it has been discussed by other reliable sources (that's not as cut and dried as our policy on reliable sources however). I'm afraid I've removed your edits because of this. Don't take it personally, we all have our edits removed from time to time. Dougweller (talk) 14:47, 12 July 2011 (UTC)