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Hello, Sunflowertree, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Neil Armstrong has not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Armstrong edit

You can listen to his words here. He said "giant".Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:06, 6 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Neil Armstrong, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. JustinTime55 (talk)

  Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Neil Armstrong. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Our etiquette rules oblige us to assume good faith when people make problematic edits, but you are really tasking my ability to do that.

"For this I cite the recording as proof." If you honestly believe in good faith that the recording supports "vast leap", I can only think of two possible explanations:

  • You are deaf; Armstrong is clearly saying the two-syllable "giant", not the monosyllable "vast".
  • You misunderstand the concepts of original research, WP:Verifiability and reliable sources. If you heard or read a WP:Fringe theory or urban legend about "vast leap" somewhere, that would need to be verified. This does not include what you think you hear on a recording, which is just your own OR.

All reliable sources have consistently maintained that Armstrong said "giant leap" for the 46 years since this event occurred, including eyewitnesses to the original live transmission (including yours truly.)

Also: do not continue edit warring; please discuss controversial edits on the article's Talk page if you think you have something valid to say. JustinTime55 (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2015 (UTC)Reply