Sourcing, and welcome to Wikipedia

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Hello, Nether Animal. In seeing your edits to the Eye color article, I need to point you to WP:Sourcing and advise you not to remove reliably sourced content unless you provide a good reason for doing so (either in your edit summary on or the talk page). I see that you are new to editing Wikipedia...at least under this user name. Thus, I give you this list in order to help your editing here at Wikipedia:

  1. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, which summarizes what belongs in Wikipedia and what does not;
  2. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, which describes Wikipedia's mandatory core approach to neutral, unbiased article-writing;
  3. Wikipedia:No original research, which prohibits the use of Wikipedia to publish personal views and original research of editors and defines Wikipedia's role as an encyclopedia of existing recognized knowledge;
  4. Wikipedia:Verifiability, which explains that it must be possible for readers to verify all content against credible external sources (following the guidance in the Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer that is linked-to at the bottom of every article);
  5. Wikipedia:Reliable sources, which explains what factors determine whether a source is acceptable;
  6. Wikipedia:Citing sources, which describes the manner of citing sources so that readers can verify content for themselves; and
  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style, which offers a style guide—in general editors tend to acquire knowledge of appropriate writing styles and detailed formatting over time.

These are often abbreviated to WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:RS, WP:CITE, and WP:MOS respectively.

Also, you need to always sign your comments when "talking" on Wikipedia talk pages. To sign your comments, all you have to do is type four tildes (~~~~) beside them.

Take care, and welcome to Wikipedia. Flyer22 (talk) 07:40, 22 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

I replied on my talk page. And on Wikipedia...new comments should typically be placed below older comments. Flyer22 (talk) 08:19, 22 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Michael Stifel‎

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You gave no reason for your removal of the copyright violation notice on Michael Stifel‎. Please do not remove such a notice without proof that there has been no such copyright violation, they are taken very seriously by Wikipedia and the foundation running it. Dmcq (talk) 09:41, 5 March 2010 (UTC)Reply