Welcome! edit

Hello, Judaizers, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Thank you User:Quinton Feldberg! :) Judaizers (talk) 07:37, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

August 2017 edit

  Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Sect of Skhariya the Jew into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 10:17, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia and copyright edit

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If you want to improve the article Judaizers edit

you should read the problems mentioned at the top of the article and try to solve them first. Get rid of the primary sources and replace them with secondary sources. Please don't add any more unsourced material or material sourced just to websites, etc. Find books published by reliable publishers (and preferably not an encyclopedia over a century old). These seem to exist.[1] Find peer reviewed journal articles.[2] All of that would be a great project. It would take some time but you could make this into a decent article. Doug Weller talk 10:42, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much for your advice Doug Weller. I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to write to me. I'm really sorry my efforts were rubbish. time is the one thing I'm short of. Kind regards. Judaizers (talk) 17:29, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
Not rubbish. Just not the way our articles should be written. Looking at the state of it compared to what I know it could be I'm not surprised that a new editor might make the sort if edits you did. They weren't any worse than what is there now. Maybe you could just spooky a little bit at a time. Doug Weller talk —Preceding undated comment added 20:35, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
Thank Doug Weller. Could you clarify what spooky means in that context please? Judaizers (talk) 21:29, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
P.S. Doug Weller please check back at the recent contributions to the Judaizers article because it seems it is not being improved at all. It really needs some professional attention. Best regards. Judaizers (talk) 17:05, 11 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
Um, spooky seems to be iPad talk - I assume I meant something like improve but my iPad thought it could do better. Anyway, I take your point about the recent edits there which have confused me - why do we get two new editors descending on a neglected article? Anyway, I've posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Noticeboard about the article asking for help, feel free to add your concerns. Sorry to be slow in responding but I'm always busy! Doug Weller talk 18:38, 11 August 2017 (UTC)Reply