User talk:RhinestoneRhino

May 2019
Hello, I'm Donner60. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Sex assignment seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 03:57, 20 May 2019 (UTC)


 * No original research. "Main page: Verifiability. Wikipedia's content is determined by previously published information rather than by the personal beliefs or experiences of its editors. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it. The policy says that all material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, needs a reliable source; what counts as a reliable source is described at Verifiability."


 * Verifiability. "Base articles on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Source material must have been published, the definition of which for our purposes is "made available to the public in some form". Unpublished materials are not considered reliable."


 * Verifiability. "All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution."


 * Verifiability, not truth. Essay. "Wikipedia's core sourcing policy, Wikipedia:Verifiability, previously defined the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia as "verifiability, not truth". "Verifiability" was used in this context to mean that material added to Wikipedia must have been published previously by a reliable source. Editors may not add their own views to articles simply because they believe them to be correct, and may not remove sources' views from articles simply because they disagree with them."


 * Neutral point of view. "Neutrality requires that each article or other page in the mainspace fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in the published, reliable sources.


 * Helpful information about editing Wikipedia can be found on various Wikipedia guideline and policy pages including: Help:Getting started; Introduction; Simplified ruleset; Simplified Manual of Style; Referencing for beginners; Identifying reliable sources; Citing sources; Help:Footnotes; Verifiability; No original research; Neutral point of view; Notability; Biographies of living persons; What Wikipedia is not; Manual of Style/Words to watch; Help:Introduction to talk pages; Copyright Problems and Help:Contents. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 04:02, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Sex assignment. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 04:05, 20 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Note that you can add your interpretation, with citation to a reliable, verifiable, third party reference, but should not change sourced content - which includes the very title of the article. Please note the quotations just placed above. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 04:07, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Tedfitzy. I believe all of your edits have been overturned upon review for excessive and blatant political motivations. Wikipedia is must be written from a Neutral point of view to be in any way reliable. I see Donner60 has already addressed most/all of the flaws with the edits you contributed, but I wanted to drive home the importance in your mind. Donner60 is not some rando on the internet; this is wiki-wide policy. I hope you continue to edit in the future, now that you've had your course corrected. Leave the partisanship at the door. Tedfitzy (talk) 00:32, 23 May 2019 (UTC)