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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller  talk 19:59, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

=Edits to The Spaceships of Ezekiel= Please check the edit history of the article to review the changes that I made to your own edits. Note that I tightened the language substantially in order remove redundancies. I also removed language that implied Ezekiel was the author of the passage in the Bible, which is something that cannot be substantiated. I also added qualifying language to clarify that the statements were Blumrich's interpretations rather than statements of fact. It is essential to review the Fringe theories guidelines. It is essential that "a Wikipedia article should not make a fringe theory appear more notable or more widely accepted than it is." The reason why Blumrich's book is noteworthy is because his ideas were amplified in the work of Erich von Däniken, but they are nonetheless fringe theories (as are all assertions about ancient astronauts). Note also that the citations to Blumrich's book should be to the print book itself and not the digital facsimile in the Internet Archive, although the latter version can be included as a link at the end of the article. Page numbers in the book should be cited for specific assertions. Hoopes (talk) 20:21, 4 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Like all the encyclopaedias I know, we don’t ask questions. That’s ok for an essay, not an encyclopaedia. Doug Weller  talk 22:11, 4 December 2023 (UTC)