User talk:Lilyhaleyy

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Hello, Lilyhaleyy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one of your contributions does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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August 2020
Thank you for adding citations in your latest contributions. Unfortunately, I've had to revert them again, mainly because they still did not adhere to the neutral point of view policy. In fact I've had to undo all of your contributions so far, which seem to consist entirely of making claims of national origin in Syria for various Middle Eastern food dishes. Some have been unsourced, some used sources that are not considered reliable, and others used sources that did not verify the claims, but said something else. Please note that just because a source describes a certain food as being Syrian (such as the one you added for sfiha), it doesn't necessarily follow that it's exclusively Syrian, nor that it originated in Syria. Many dishes have been present across the whole region for hundreds or thousands of years. It is usually not possible to identify a specific national origin, and in any case the dishes often have existed long before any modern nation; we usually use a wider geographical area such as "Middle East", "Levant", etc., depending on what the most reliable sources on the history say. Btw, I did change the sfiha article, which had given Lebanon as national origin, to be "Levant" instead. I also added a new "History" section. --IamNotU (talk) 12:24, 3 August 2020 (UTC)