User talk:HollyBethlehem

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Hello, HollyBethlehem, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 19:33, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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Your addition to Dietrich Bonhoeffer because it consisted of original research based on primary sources, and was unencyclopedically meant to convince the reader of a particular point of view, against our neutral point of view policies. A summary of notable theologians' published views on Bonhoeffer would have been acceptable, but either way, the edit was not minor. Please keep these things in mind in the future, and thank you for your effort. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:33, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, looking over your edits to Rapture, I feel I should point out that the encyclopedia is written from an impersonal third person perspective, not addressing the reader nor referring to the editor. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:35, 14 November 2012 (UTC)