User talk:RichardDHeath

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Megalithic yard
Sorry to great you like this, but there were several problems. First, as the author of the article, you really shouldn't be adding it to articles but should suggest it on the talk page. Secondly, it doesn't seem to meet our criteria at WP:RS or WP:SPS. It also probably fails WP:UNDUE (sorry for all the acronyms, just click on them to see what they mean. Now if someone like Clive Ruggles writes about your idea, then it could probably go in the article as that would boost what we call its 'significance'. Any further discussion should go at the article talk page rather than here or on my page to keep it more open. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 19:05, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Doug, Thanks for your welcome, however great! I have uploaded three sections to the Talk area to see if people object and why. You will see they belong there even if the megalithic yard is officially case closed. The truncation of historical development on Wikipedia over what have been controversial subjects, claimed to be closed by certain academic interests, removes the integrity of the cumulative wisdom over the years that is real in its own right and useful for anyone knowing what has been tried and why it eventually failed to be accepted. Where on Wikipedia, are reasons given by "leading academics" about why the megalithic yard is definitively an incorrect conjecture? RichardDHeath

January 2014
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Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 12:23, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * author=John Ivimy|title=The Sphinx and the Megaliths, p. 132|year=1974|publisher=Turnstone}}, see figure below.