User talk:Miriamjerris

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August 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Society for Humanistic Judaism has been reverted. Your edit here to Society for Humanistic Judaism was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Society-for-Humanistic-Judaism/78679832303, http://www.facebook.com/pages/SocietyforHumanisticJudaism/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 19:10, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

SJH article
Hi there -

I noticed you've been editing the SHJ article, which is great -- welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for working on this; I'm really glad to see some activity here. :) I had to help fight off someone who tried to get some related content deleted not too long ago.

I did just go and put back in the link to the NY Times obituary on Sherwin Wine. I'll admit I was a little surprised to see it removed; with that and the LA Times reference removed, the article had no references at all other than to the SHJ webpage. As Wikipedia is supposed to be a general purpose encyclopedia, it makes sense to document a variety of sources for content, rather than just the organization's own web page.

I also saw that you removed the content that referred to an LA Times article:

"Humanistic Judaism celebrates Jewish holidays and life-cycle events with ceremonies that draw on, but also go beyond, traditional Jewish literature. Its rituals are drawn from historical Jewish traditions, but are rewritten with a viewpoint that focuses on people. For example, the traditional phrase "You shall love the Lord your God" is rewritten as "We revere the best in man." "

I was considering putting this back in; after all, it gives more info about the SHJ to the reader, as well as further includes content that goes beyond just what the SHJ website has to offer. Does that seem reasonable?

Thanks for working on this -- I think it's awesome that you're getting involved in editing Wikipedia! You might want to look at this article: WP:COI. It says that if you've got a conflict of interest (which you do, completely reasonably), you should explicitly announce yourself on the talk page for the article you're editing.

Good luck, and again, welcome! SeparateWays (talk) 04:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)