User talk:Hdpc

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Your edit to Halacha
Hello,

In your recent edit you claimed to have supplied a reference that the Conservative movement consulted with physicist Richard Feynman, but all you added was a link to the article, which contains no reference to any such consultation. Please, please, don't claim to have supplied a reference on a controversial topic without having actually done so. If you have evidence such a consultation took place please supply a reference. Also, if you believe someone gives the consultation a particular meaning, please supply a reference for that as well.

The issue here is not the Conservative movement's claim to have a basis for its position, it's your writing the article in a way that suggests that that the alternative position isn't scientific. Wikepedia has strong policies (see WP:NPOV) against position positions or claiming certain postions are correct and others incorrect; this particularly true of religious positions.

If you have evidence that Conservative Judaism claims its position is the only possible scientific one or that other viewpoints are not "scientific", please supply sources to support such a claim. Wikipeida prohibits Original Research, and claims of this nature need reliable sources to support them. If someone notable believes this, you must present it as that individual's position. You cannot present it as Wikipedia's. Best, --Shirahadasha 04:55, 20 November 2006 (UTC)