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May 2019

Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you recently removed content from Phalanx without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:00, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Book of the Dead, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. You changed "Judeo-Christian" to Abrahamic faiths, thus adding Islam with no source - which is to be expected as the 10 commandments aren't part of Islam Doug Weller talk 11:01, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

I cannot think of a situation where "Judeo-Christian" makes sense as a grouping? If it's about the ten commandments mention the Old testament more specifically rather than just "Christian", and state whichever Jewish text they appear in. "Judeo-Christian" has too much political baggage. Irtapil (talk) 13:30, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Current wording of that phrase seems reasonable enough "the Ten Commandments of Jewish and Christian ethics". But that whole section featuring the analogy is a bit tangential, it seems to summarise an opinionated source as if it were simply factual. Opinions can be valid to mention, if they are particularly influential, but they should be framed as such. Irtapil (talk) 13:44, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

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Can Wikipedia be used as a source for another article in Wikipedia? For example: The article X in Wikipedia states that everything that is A is also B, article Y says that everything that is C is also A, so can I use article X as a source in article Y to say that everything that is C is also B? Barbar03 (talk) 00:09, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

No, per WP:SPS. No self-published sources including Wikipedia, are allowed. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:13, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Even if Article X has a reliable source? Barbar03 (talk) 00:14, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your problem. Article Y doesn't need article X as a source; article Y can present the same citations that article. Further, there is no transitive property involved as your assertion would be original research. Instead, we present source/citations that say what A, B, or C is. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:18, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

• Nope... separate from the reliability issue, see our WP:No original research policy.

Even if you have a reliable source that says “A = B”... and another reliable source that says “B = C”... you still can’t put these two together YOURSELF, and add the (logical) conclusion that “C = A” to an article. You would need to cite a reliable source that puts everything together and explicitly says “Since A = B, and B = C, therefore C = A”. Blueboar (talk) 00:47, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Japheth, you may be blocked from editing. Doug Weller talk 09:20, 10 August 2019 (UTC)