User talk:Quartus81

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Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Creation appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. - Also note the policy wp:3RR, Cheers, DVdm (talk) 17:25, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Creation. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 17:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

November 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Creation. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Ben (talk) 07:45, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You nearly got blocked for WP:3RR. You will be blocked for edit warring if you continue to revert on creation. You cannot edit from the POV that As it happens, the Bible is the inspired Word of God, whether you believe it or not, and as He WAS there at the time, by your own definition the word "account" is correct. Read Hobbes: the religious power must be subservient to the civil power William M. Connolley (talk) 10:12, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, but I'm not the one "edit warring". Neither am I editing from POV quoted. What has happened, which should be painfully obvious, is that, having seen the text stating as fact that the Hebrew creation story is a "myth", I changed it to something less offensive and contentious. I understand that the majority hold the OPINION that Biblical Creation is a myth but that does not give them the right to state it as "fact".

user DVdm accuses me of breaking Wikipedia's rules by correcting "myth" to something less open to debate and for abusing the system. It is clear to me that it is DVdm who is the guilty party. I am advised that "A contribution you made to Creation appears to carry a non-neutral point of view". By changing "myth" to "account"???? COME ON!! By calling Genesis a "myth" you are making a judgement and, by very definition, this is not neutral.

"Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Creation" - explaining in the "edit summary" field why I've changed a non-neutral, judgmental word is "personal analysis"? So is changing it back to the contentious and very wrong "myth" - yet that seems to be allowed. Hypocrisy, anyone?

There is sufficient evidence available in all fields of science to support (although not quite prove) the Biblical account and to cast doubt on the THEORY of evolution (itself held by many to be a myth), which means it is not acceptable to use the word "myth" in this Wikipedia entry. This is perhaps not the time or place to discuss this evidence, although I am happy to do so if you want. One thing is very clear - the word "myth" IS to be removed.

--Quartus81 (talk) 16:27, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]