User talk:Myinsight

August 2022
Hello, I'm Hey man im josh. I noticed that you made a change to an article, 2022 food crises, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:23, 2 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I was not sure how to add the citation - can you please not delete it till i learn how to add the citation.
 * https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/53815/global-food-system-biodiversity-crisis/ Myinsight (talk) 16:27, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I have now added the source. Myinsight (talk) 16:36, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The source you added makes it slightly better, but it's still a pretty polemical addition to the article. Wiki articles should be about dispassionately discussing the topics at hand, and should try to avoid being overly partisan. See WP:NPOV for the main policy here. WP:RS is also relevant, especially the WP:RS section.
 * I rolled back your changes again, but tbh I was probably a bit harsh in my edit reasons. I didn't realize you were a brand-new Wiki editor, so I should have cut you a bit more slack.
 * Basically, please try to keep Wikipedia from getting overly political, in any direction. Quoting activist groups like Greenpeace as sources should be done very sparingly, because they can easily throw off the tone of an article, and if there's too many of them, they can make Wikipedia look bad as a reference. This goes double when you just take the text directly from the cited article, because that causes plagiarism/copyright issues - if you take large blocks of text, make it clear that they're a quote.
 * If you want to add something like this, you should refine the language into something that meets NPOV rules. For example, "Environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace attribute the crisis to the corporate structure of the global agricultural industry". That might still be inappropriate (again, see the NPOV article for the guidelines here), but it'd be much closer to Wikipedia-standard writing.
 * Don't let this scare you off editing, though - I still make occasional errors myself, and I've been here close to 20 years. Hope you stick around! Alsadius (talk) 19:34, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi - thanks for the inputs and insights - still learning, discovering and want to be a source of credible information, to move the debate further. One area where i disagree the bit on being neutral - i think that article does cite evidence - that is not to say, i disagree or don't see the pitfalls & inherent biases. I have used wiki for 20 years but never bothered to edit.. will give it another go. Thanks for your kindness. Myinsight (talk) 07:11, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

The content you added was copied from another website, and thus was a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. — Diannaa (talk) 22:17, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I cited the website (not copied) or plagiarised. As i understand it. It was picked from the public domain and what if i get their approval? Myinsight (talk) 14:54, 5 August 2022 (UTC)