User talk:S D Gage

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Special relativity (alternative formulations), but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 21:15, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

What I submitted today was a reference to an encyclopedic alternative formulation of special relativity. What I wrote did match what the theory states, explicitly. The theory offers an alternative explanation of the Lorentz based equations of relativity. Please explain clearly why you consider it original research. Would it help if I cite critisims of special relativity, specifically paradox in the theoryS D Gage (talk) 22:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If you are talking about this edit, you added the reference incorrectly (formatting), and I don't think http://fourthway.us/ is an encyclopedia. Is it? To learn about reliable source see WP:RS and about citation, see WP:Citation. If you have any question you can ask here or post a question in my talk page. -- Tito Dutta  ✉  00:13, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Terrestrial Based Relativity is listed at http://wikibin.org/articles/terrestrial-based-relativity.html which is encylopediac. Although it is not up to date.

S D Gage (talk) 02:07, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Wikibin, being user-generated content, is not considered to be a reliable source—so no, it's not acceptable as a WIkipedia reference. Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 02:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Note - S D Gage, the website you used as a source for your edit shows that you are the author of the content. So I looked for wp:secondary sources for it. The only hit I found in Google books containing a reference to "Terrestrial Based Relativity", was one to a Wiki, which is not accepted as a wp:reliable source for Wikipedia. A search with Google Scholar produced nothing. Please have a careful look at the second item of The five pillars of Wikipedia. Hope this helps. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 08:25, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Note - See also Articles for deletion/Terrestrial Based Relativity, dated December 2007, where similar comments were made. It looks like not much has changed since then. By the way, at that time you were working as . I think that —per policy— you should use only one username. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 11:32, 13 August 2012 (UTC)