User talk:Hopeiamright

Welcome!

Hello, Hopeiamright, 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 discussion 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) 14:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * "Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
 * We do not publish original thought nor original research. We're not a blog.  This is why your edit to Gaia hypothesis was reverted.
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 * Credentials are irrelevant, noone here cares about them, we will ignore them. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

March 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Gaia Hypothesis, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:55, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

April 2011
Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Gaia hypothesis. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. '''You've had the guidelines explained to you repeatedly. Cite some sources.''' Ian.thomson (talk) 12:21, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Gaia hypothesis, you may be blocked from editing. Orange Marlin Talk• Contributions 06:39, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Gaia hypothesis
You keep adding the same unsourced commentary to Gaia hypothesis. You need to add citations for each claim you're making, and you need to use, preferably, secondary sources in peer-reviewed journals. You cannot take that information and make conclusions that aren't supported. We don't know if what you're editing is right or wrong. We just know it's unsourced. If you keep making the same reversion, you'll be in violation of three-revert rule, and you can be blocked. It isn't difficult to source your statements and rewrite them to a neutral point of view. Take your time to do that. Orange Marlin Talk• Contributions 06:43, 7 April 2011 (UTC)