User talk:Warlockasylum

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Hello, Warlockasylum, 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 talk 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) 17:34, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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March 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. McGeddon (talk) 17:01, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

February 2012
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Simon Necronomicon. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:34, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:34, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Regarding "religious freedom"
You may wish to read Free speech. Wikipedia is not a government agency, it is a private organization. As such, it is not required by the first amendment to help you promote your site. In fact, per WP:NOTPROMO, we're actually going to discourage you from promoting your site. It has nothing to do with prejudice, we throw out sites from Christian evangelical fundamentalists' sites, Islamic extremists' sites, new-age hippies' sites, diehard atheists' sites, corporate advertisements, anyone trying to promote anything.

You're still free to believe that:
 * the Necronomicon wasn't made up by a materialist atheist as a plot device for his admitted fantasy stories in the 1920s,
 * that a 1980's book having no earlier manuscripts, containing some verbatim and some barely altered portions of older sources, and portraying a magical good-versus-evil dichotomy at ends with Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness and cosmic indifference as a whole, is the real Necronomicon,
 * that the beings described in it actually exist, even the ones that were only first written about in the '20s by Lovecraft.

After all, if a work is divine, then a human hand writing it would not tarnish the ideas it contains, and criticism should not trouble the mind of the faithful.

Ian.thomson (talk) 17:34, 25 February 2012 (UTC)