User talk:Mekontoo

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! John of Reading (talk) 18:30, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

A better mousetrap
You have asked me to "provide a reason when editing". I did provide a reason in my edit summary, namely "either this is an unsourced essay or it is a copy-paste from somewhere". But I'll spell it out in more detail here:

Wikipedia aims to summarise what has already been published in "reliable sources" such as books, journals, articles from respected news outlets, and so on; and when it does, it includes "references" describing those sources so that a reader can check the information. So in this article, the original text is sprinkled with footnote markers leading the reader to two published books.

I can't tell from your text where it came from.


 * If you wrote it yourself, then it is previously-unpublished "original research". Wikipedia does not publish original work; you will have to get your ideas published by some reputable source, and then someone might expand the article to refer to it.
 * If you copied it from somewhere else, then (a) by failing to explain where you got it from, the edit fails the requirement for verifiability; and (b) by copying so much text, the edit is likely to be a violation of copyright.

-- John of Reading (talk) 06:57, 8 April 2013 (UTC)