User talk:Tedmarx38

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Hello, Tedmarx38, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 13:58, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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February 2011
Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to List of people claimed to be Jesus. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Did you think that we wouldn't see that you were trying to pass off references for someone besides "Willy Love?" Ian.thomson (talk) 12:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Nothing incorrect about it. Willy Love's claim to be the second coming of Christ has drawn lots of intrigue on Facebook. That was my first ever entry and I did not know how to do the references - wasn't sure how to reference something from a Facebook page and intended to delete the other references (I did a cut/paste of the previous entry and changed the content accordingly).


 * Facebook fails to meet our reliable source guidelines because it is user-generated content. It also does not demonstarate any notability. (Any monkey on a keyboard can make a facebook page).  You'd need something like a news program or article (not a blog post) about him.  I'd recommend looking over the guidelines below:


 * Please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes ( ~, found next to the 1 key), and please do not alter other's comments.
 * Always cite a source for any new information, using, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable).
 * "Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
 * We do not publish original thought. We're not a blog, we're not here to promote any ideology.
 * A subject is considered notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.
 * Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards.  User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided.  Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment). Ian.thomson (talk) 13:58, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the insight. I'll let this go. Please trust that I use Wikipedia for business and personal knowledge and think the world of it, and would never try to diminish its value.