User talk:JP1923

March 2024
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Cru (Christian organization), it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Flounder fillet (talk) 01:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I don't think I understand how my sources fit into this definition of original research:
 * "Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say."
 * The sources that I used were passages from the Bible. It is not important as to whether the reader views the Bible as a holy book or as irrelevant. It is only important that the Christian organization would fundamentally believe the Bible. The additions to the page were cited with explicit commands or statements that help define what a Christian institution would believe.
 * In addition, when looking at the "no original research" page, this is the general list given to outline what is found as a reliable resource:
 * Peer-reviewed journals
 * Books published by university presses
 * University-level textbooks
 * Magazines, journals, and books published by respected publishing houses
 * Mainstream newspapers
 * The Bible itself falls into 3 of those 5 categories. It is published by numerous university presses (such as Cambridge), it is used as a textbook in numerous religious universities across the country, and it is published by many respected publishing houses.
 * I think that if a disqualification of the sources is going to be made, it should be made more specifically as to which area of "original research" my sources fell into.
 * Thanks for your help! JP1923 (talk) 02:03, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The bible is obviously a primary source (WP:PRIMARY) and your edit is analyzing this primary source. This is only permitted with a published secondary source for the analysis (ie. a paper in a religious studies journal). Flounder fillet (talk) 21:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Published secondary sources were added for the analysis.
 * Thanks! JP1923 (talk) 02:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)