User talk:Luna Rowan

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October 2022
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Mark Littlewood. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you.--Lord Belbury (talk) 11:35, 19 October 2022 (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 Mark Littlewood, you may be blocked from editing. Lord Belbury (talk) 13:25, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Mark Littlewood and synthesis
I see you've had some go-rounds on the Mark Littlewood page before, and I just had to undo a couple of your edits there. I undid your addition of an external link in large part because you misformatted it, and utterly blew up the page with it. It was only with a bit of investigative effort that I figured out that that link you added was supposed to be reference for a statement you'd added in a separate edit. However, even if that had been properly inserted as a reference, it could not have been used for the full statement you'd added. It could probably be used for the claim that ML, as the Director General, has his salary paid by the Ralph Harris fund, as the source stated both that he was Director General and that the DG pay comes from that fund. However, there is nothing in the source about the Ralph Harris fund getting DAF funding, nor on the elusive nature of that funding. Even if you had a separate source that said that the Ralph Harris funds are fueled by DAF, you couldn't add that as well to the article to make the statement you made, unless that second source also mentioned Littlewood. That is because of our policy WP:SYNTH which says to avoid combining sources to make or suggest a new claim. I can find sources that say bratwurst comes from Germany and that Adolf Hitler while ruling Germany brought about the deaths of millions, but I cannot use that to state "Bratwurst comes from Germany, where evil dictator Hitler had millions of Jews killed", because it builds the implication that Bratwurst is some sort of anti-semitic conspiracy. And even if the entire statement could be sourced to that one document, we'd generally want it to have been mentioned in a reliable, third-party source to show its import... and the document you were linking to was first-party.

I can see that you want to get this claim about Littlewood out into the world, but as you can see, your efforts to do so via Wikipedia are proving a waste of your time (and others'). This suggests taking one of two path. One is that you learn more about how Wikipedia works, about what we need in terms of references -- and the links in the Welcome message at the top of the page should get you well on the path to that understanding. The other is to, instead of working to change Wikipedia directly, you try to get your statements published in what Wikipedia deems a reliable source. If you got an article into a good newspaper documenting a Littlewood/DAF link, then we could include such a statement on the Littlewood page. Nat Gertler (talk) 14:48, 25 July 2023 (UTC)