User talk:Lindafane

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Hello, Lindafane, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Cisgender did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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December 2019
Hello, I'm Mathglot. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Womyn-born womyn, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 10:20, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Verifiability and original research
Hi Lindafane, and once again, welcome! Two of Wikipedia's core content policies are Verifiability and No original research. I noticed a pattern in some recent edits of yours on women's topics, where you altered the lead of articles without any apparent reference to sources; this may contravene these core principles: In the edits, you appear to be altering the WP:LEADPARAGRAPH or the WP:FIRSTSENTENCE of articles to accord more closely with your beliefs. The way to develop an article at Wikipedia, especially when you are a new editor, is to start by making small changes to the body of an article (the part below the first section header) first, making sure that your changes are verifiable&mdash;that is, that they conform to the views in independent, reliable, secondary sources. The lead of an article generally introduces and summarizes the body, so changes to the lead come after, in order to stay in sync with the sourced content in the article body.
 * Womyn-born womyn (diff) – previous version applied an ideology as fact.
 * Cisgender (diff) – the trans ideology is a belief system. the previous phrase assumed an ontological trutth.
 * Drag queen (diff) – the author was stating an opinion as fact. women and trans women are distinct. The trans ideology is a belief held by some. the change made reflects that fact.

If you believe that the lead of an article is wrong, especially if the article is in a topic area that may be controversial like gender-related issues, then the best approach is to go to the Talk page and raise your concerns there, and see what other editors think. You can find the Talk page by clicking the "Talk" tab upper left on the page, above the large title of the article. Hope this helps, and once again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 10:48, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to help me. I am a financial supporter of Wikipedia and believe in the project. The edits I made were to beliefs and views being presented as facts and were largely unsupported. Removing unsupported assertions requires supporting sources? Lindafane (talk) 11:02, 9 December 2019 (UTC)