User talk:Stevezdude

Wikipedia is not censored
None of our articles is censored to meet the wishes of any religious faith. Do not mutilate articles in an effort to make them conform to yours. Kww (talk) 00:16, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Who is "our?" Why do you pretend to represent Wikipedia? Have you not read the warning that your articles may be mercilessly edited?


 * I certainly have read it. I also read WP:NOT, which indicates that editing an article to conform to a particular religious faith is unacceptable. You've been doing it again today. Stop, or you will be blocked from editing. Kww (talk) 11:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Funny how those who object to censoring are so quick to want to censor others.


 * Who is censoring you? I'm merely preventing you from removing sourced material, and you still haven't documented any secular reason for removing it. Kww (talk) 16:11, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I ussume he's talking about the threat of being blocked. --WikiWes77 (talk) 02:15, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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You haven't been properly welcomed. Welcome!

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Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
What's the deal with your edits on Endowment (Latter Day Saints)? Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

What's the deal with your problem with my editing?
 * Well, you're deleting a lot of material without any explanation as to why. That's generally considered vandalism on WP and can result in getting your account and your IP address blocked. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Can you give a secular motivation for deleting the image? Kww (talk) 11:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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These kinds of articles which attempt to unethically "expose" or attack information from various churches or organizations, e.g., latter-day saints, Christian Scientists, Seventh-day Adventists,rosicrucians, etc are invariably authored by those having an ax to grind, and are almost always biased and filled with inaccuracies, as well as being offensive to members of the organization in question.
 * I've authored a good deal of this and similar articles, and I most certainly have no axe to grind against the LDS Church. Best efforts are made to keep that material balanced and neutral. If you can point to specific issues that you feel are inaccurate, bring it up on the talk page with reasons. Material that may be offensive to anyone is not removed, because WP is not censored, as discussed above. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Stevezdude, I'd be inclined to delete things as you have done, but I'm afraid we can't win this. There are too many editors that don't hold sacred the things that we do. See the discussion on this talk page. And because NPOV is one of the main policies of Wikipedia, we have to tolerate negative takes on Church related subjects. However, we can work on articles and sections that have too negative of a slant on them. For example, the Joseph Smith, Jr. article presents a negative picture of Revelations and The Book of Mormon, which is a positive thing to Church members. I tagged the section with the template to show that it needs work. So if you can help to balance this section and others like it and provide references to official LDS and pro-LDS sources, please do. And please sign your talk page comments with ~, which will look like this, with your own username and the current date: WikiWes77 (talk) 02:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)