User talk:Gordon Sibley

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Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews
I see that you have inserted a lot of material into this article. It is good to have people adding material to Wikipedia; but there may be one or two problems with what you have added. (I'm not talking about the content of the arguments: I know little about that subject).

The first is that your inserted material contains no inline references: all material in Wikipedia should be referenced inline to reliable published sources, so that a reader can find where to check its authenticity (for example if it appears to have been vandalised). I see you have added one source at the end of your insertion; but it is not easy to see just what this source is being referenced to support, and it is strongly preferred to give more information than just a bare URL, so that readers can more easily judge whether the source is likely to be reliable, and so that if the webpage should disappear there is a chance of locating the reference off line. Please see referencing for beginners for more information.

The second problem is that much of what you've added appears to be original research. This is not permitted in Wikipedia: no article should contain any argument, conclusion, judgment, or evaluation unless it this is taken directly from a single published source. I may be wrong in my evaluation - it may be that all the argumentation is directly from published sources, in which case all you need to do is reference those sources; but if it is your own arguments, then I'm afraid it is not acceptable.

I apologise if this comes over as rather heavy on a new user; but I'd rather give you guidance as to how Wikipedia works early on. Cheers! --ColinFine (talk) 18:17, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Recent edits to Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Your addition to Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you!  Bfpage &#124;leave a message 18:21, 5 May 2015 (UTC)