User talk:Texasraley

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 18:07, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Wounded Knee Massacre
The title of the article is massacre, and to change the text to battle makes it a bit of a confusing situation for readers. It's something we should never do. Instead, go to the talk page and try to get agreement to change the name of the article. Doug Weller talk 18:08, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Federation for American Immigration Reform
Here you did two things. You removed information from the lead that was a summary of a section of the article. The lead is meant to be a summary of the main sections of the article.

Worse, you tried to remove a source. I have no idea why you would do that since you didn't use an WP:Edit summary, but you made a mess of that part of the page as you broke the source template. Doug Weller talk 18:12, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Creation Science
You need to read WP:NPOV. Also, you wrote "The overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is that creation science is a religious, not a scientific, view. It fails to qualify as a science because it allegedly lacks empirical support". Scientists don't say it "allegedly lacks empirical support", that makes no sense. And of course the mainstream view is that it does lack empirical support. At Conservapedia you are required to take a Creationist viewpoint, but here we simply reflect what reliable sources say about a subject - see WP:RS and WP:VERIFY, and for science we need academic sources. We're an encyclopedia, and encyclopedias reflect the mainstream unless they are specifically designed not to. You also removed other text because, I presume, it doesn't fit with your world view. As I said, read WP:NPOV. I hope that from now you'll learn about our policies and guidelines and these problems won't recur. Doug Weller talk 18:18, 4 October 2017 (UTC)