User talk:Insight234

Welcome!
Hello, Insight234, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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) 15:44, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
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Ian.thomson (talk) 15:44, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

June 2014
Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Religious belief. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. This also includes citing the overglorified blog of someone who is neither a popular nor credited authority on religious studies, sociology, history, psychology, or any related field (i.e. "Tucker"). Read WP:RS to see what does and does not qualify as a reliable source. Ian.thomson (talk) 13:48, 16 June 2014 (UTC)