User talk:Petercj70

August 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Witchcraft, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:02, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia (or any wiki for that matter) is not a reliable source for Wikipedia because it would allow people to make up stuff in one article, cite it in another, and then cite the second article in the first. Plus, the constantly changing nature of Wikipedia makes it unreliable to cite it as a source.  Thus, you need to cite an outside source.  Also...

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at User talk:Ian.thomson. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:48, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It doesn't matter if the info isn't wrong, Wikipedia is not a source for Wikipedia, and the requirement that we cite sources is what keeps this encyclopedia from turning into a blog of of conspiracy theories, religious extremism, and pseudoscience. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:04, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

I removed your addition to the Witchcraft article because you didn't cite a reliable (outside) source. I've already left you a message about that. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:22, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits
so Ian.thomson --Petercj70 (talk) 23:57, 19 August 2010 (UTC)you kill it notwithstanding that the linked page already has your requirements, are you merely a procedural nazi who will not fix a problem with a edit, but just yank it out? Perhaps you should rethink what help you actually are to Wikipedia if you can not take the time to do real editing fixes--Petercj70 (talk) 23:55, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The linked page is not a stable source. If you don't want to properly cite a source, you don't have to edit here.  If you don't want to bother with the guidelines, and are going to name-call someone who tries to explain them to you, you should consider if you really want to help here. Also...

Please do not attack other editors. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:22, 20 August 2010 (UTC)


 * You're taking this way too personally. Your first edit wasn't perfect, get over it.  Everyone has to learn stuff when they start here, so it's no reason to be mad.  Where have I made a personal attack?  If you want, I'll file a report with the admins asking them to examine my behavior, give you a link to give your side, and we'll let others judge our behavior.  Did you think that, maybe, you could actually look at the guidelines I've provided plenty of links to, see how to cite sources, and then go back and restore the information with a source cited?  Did you think that, maybe, I might have been given you the notification asking you to cite a source to help you learn how to edit the encyclopedia? Ian.thomson (talk) 00:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

How is the notification unfriendly? Ian.thomson (talk) 00:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)