User talk:Peter Holiday

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Mary (mother of Jesus)
I reverted your edits to Mary (mother of Jesus). As noted on every edit page, copyrighted material will be deleted. You simply cannot copy and paste text found on a website. Also, even if the text were original or free, it was problematic because it violated WP:NPOV. It made a number of statements as if they were facts, and appeared to be writing from a Catholic POV, without qualifying it as such. One way of doing that is instead of saying "The angel Gabriel thus instituted the theological doctrine of the incarnation", you could say "Catholics believe that the angel Gabriel established...." If you have any questions about this, or how wikipedia works, feel free to contact me. Thanks.-Andrew c [talk] 02:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Again, on wikipedia, we cannot accept copyrighted material. Please do not re-insert stolen material. If you want to discuss your content more, please feel free to start a new topic at Talk:Mary (mother of Jesus). Also, it generally is a bad practice to re-instate controversial material after a user has in good faith reverted you. It's fine to make bold edits, but if you get reverted, discuss the changes before re-adding them. We work together as a community here. There needs to be consensus behind content, and edit warring is always frowned upon. Good luck.-Andrew c [talk] 02:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)