User talk:SperrysSpot

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February 2017
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Book of Ezekiel, without citing a reliable source using an inline citation that clearly supports the material. The burden is on the person wishing to keep in the material to meet these requirements, as a necessary (but not always sufficient) condition. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 17:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your message on my talk page. Best to discuss this here. The problem is that you can't use WP:PRIMARY sources to analyse themselves, only to show that they actually say. So you can cite a Bible verse and quote it, but you can't build a case on it. Even though people do try at times. This would be what we call "original research", discussed in more detail at the link for primary sources. For something like this you'll need academic sources stating that the book is composed of 13 scrolls, and sources providing the interpretation you are making. It would probably have to be written in a manner suggesting that it was one interpretation among others also. This way of building our articles often comes as quite a shock to people as it is so different from other ways of writing. When I was an academic I could take various sources that didn't necessarily even discuss the subject directly and build an argument. I can't do that here. Doug Weller talk 19:18, 1 February 2017 (UTC)