Truth1973

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 17:21, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

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• "Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
• Always cite a source for any new information. When adding this information to articles, use <ref>reference tags like this</ref>, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable).
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Ian.thomson (talk) 17:21, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Esotericism. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:30, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Esotericism. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:30, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Note that repeatedly citing a personal site does qualify as WP:REFSPAM. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:32, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Kabbalah, you may be blocked from editing.
Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Kabbalah was changed by Truth1973 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.940813 on 2015-04-27T17:48:44+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 17:51, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Againstfraud2000. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:57, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Please stop. Wikipedia is not censored. Any further changes which have the effect of censoring an article, such as you did to Kabbalah, will be regarded as vandalism. If you continue in this manner, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Also, you do not seem to understand that "personal websites are not allowed as sources" means that beingjewish.com (which is a personal website) cannot be cited. It may be the best site out there for anyone with questions about Judaism, but it is not a published academic source, so it cannot be cited. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)