User talk:Trinigeeks/Archive

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Hello, Trinigeeks, 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:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  Guettarda 23:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• Regarding this edit:

1. Our policy forbids personal attacks* and requires that we assume good faith* regarding the actions of others. Please refrain from doing things like that in the future.
2. Wikipedia is not an advocacy site* - it's an encyclopaedia. Using Wikipedia to advance a particular point of view is unacceptable. Wikipedia articles are required to conform to a neutral point of view*. In addition, if people want to use Wikipedia to find out about Islam, the Islam article would be the best source.
3. Your accusation that I am anti-Muslim is amusingly false. If someone had accused me of being anti-Catholic or anti-Hindu I would probably have to stop and examine my actions, since the things you learn young are sometimes hard to put aside. For exactly the same reason, your accusation is amusing.

• Regarding your edits to Religion in Trinidad and Tobago, given the fact that Wikipedia articles cannot favour any particular group, there are two logical ways to organise that article - either alphabetically, or in terms of numerical prevalence. Listing Christians, then Hindus, then Muslims fits both criteria. Your change is not consistent with Wikipedia policy.

• Regarding your addition of links to http://www.trinimuslims.com. as per our policy on external links* and spamming*, adding links to that site from pages other than Islam in Trinidad and Tobago is considered spamming. Since the site appears to be primarily a bulletin board, and probably shouldn't even be linked to from that page.

• Regarding your upload of Image:TriniMuslims topsm.jpg, Wikipedia requires that all content be free. Since you licensed it as "non-commercial only" it cannot be used by Wikipedia and will be deleted (this has nothing to do with me, tagging it as unfree automatically lists it as a candidate for speedy deletion). The only way that non-free content can be used is as fair use, which is a form of copyright infringement which is "allowed" under US law

I have added (*) to links to policy pages. Please read them. Guettarda 23:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Blanking comments

Please refrain from blanking the signed comments of others, even on your talk page, as this is considered vandalism on Wikipedia and can result in your being blocked. Chuchunezumi 03:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

No, that isn't actually true. It's preferable to create an archive page (e.g., User talk:Trinigeeks/Archive) and move the text there, but it isn't true that you can't remove text from your talk page. Guettarda 15:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)