User talk:Alasdair22

Your earlier edits have all been deleted

Someone deleted your edits to the Ultimate fate of the universe physics article as inappropriate.

Your edit to the 616 article was deleted -- note that the article stated:

"This article is about the year 616. For other uses, see 616 (number)."

Someone else has already noted that 616 can be the number of the beast on the 616 (number) page as well as supplying a link.

Your edits to Eschatology and 2039 were also deleted by other edits.

I think all these edits were probably deleted since they were seen as advocating a particular religious point of view as well as promoting the editor's web site.

Wikipedia's rules and Wikipedia's Christians

Wikipedia has some requirements for adding material to the encyclopedic; please see the policy articles linked below:

• Wikipedia:Spam -- you're not supposed to promote your own web site
• Wikipedia:Vanity guidelines -- writing about yourself or your organization, especially to puff up the image -- discouraged on Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not -- "Wikipedia would not exist without the online community that has come together to build it. However, Wikipedia is first and foremost an online encyclopedia. Please avoid the temptation to use Wikipedia for other purposes." In particular, see the "Wikipedia is not a soapbox" section
• Wikipedia:Vandalism -- "Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. It is, and needs to be, removed from the encyclopedia."
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view -- "Articles, including reader-facing templates, categories and portals, should be written from a Neutral Point of View."
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/FAQ -- "This FAQ gives an objection-rebuttal style explanation of NPOV, and was recently split off from the main page (listed above this)."
• Wikipedia:No original research -- "Articles may not contain any unpublished theories, data, statements, concepts, arguments, or ideas; or any new interpretation, analysis, or synthesis of published data, statements, concepts, arguments, or ideas that, in the words of Wikipedia's co-founder Jimbo Wales, would amount to a 'novel narrative or historical interpretation.'"
• Wikipedia:Verifiability -- "We cannot check the accuracy of claims, but we can check whether the claims have been published by a reputable publication. Articles should therefore cite sources whenever possible. Any unsourced material may be challenged and removed."

Like the world at large, the Wikipedia community has people who believe many different things. Some of these people are Christians, but even among the Christians, there's a wide range of ideas. The general consensus among most of these Christians is that Wikipedia is not the right place to advance their faith. Even the most evangelistic of Christians do not write their message into the Encyclopedia Britannica, the user's manual for Microsoft Windows XP, the repair manual for a Hoover vacuum cleaner or one of the U.S. Army's field manuals; I reckon most of the Christians editing Wikipedia see this publication in the same light. No Christian is asked to deny their Christianity, just not to try to proselytise others with what they add to Wikipedia.

Many Wikipedians use their personal user pages to list their interests and beliefs in a low-key manner. Others, such as myself, choose to stay as publicly neutral in their comments on Wikipedia as possible, even on their own user pages for whatever reason; in my own case, while I'm considered a person of strong opinions and beliefs in my own community, I'd just as soon appear neutral around here, even on my user page.

Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you'll stick around, but, please, do not use Wikipedia to promote your web site.

--A. B. 03:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Please stop inserting random weblinks into articles. You are welcome, though, to use the discussion pages of articles to suggest changes. Subversive element 14:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)