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Hello, *Castle&Gardens*! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Misplaced Pages. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Misplaced Pages, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @ 03:03, 22 May 2015 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Misplaced Pages The five pillars of Misplaced Pages • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Misplaced Pages is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Also, edit summaries should reflect what actions you're really taking. Pretending to make grammar changes while sneaking in POV-statements is dishonest. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Christian eschatology. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 05:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages does not use editor knowledge, it only summarizes mainstream published academic or journalistic sources. The Bible is a primary source and so is only cited to present context for claims based on secondary and tertiary sources.

Also, please read Common noun and Proper noun. Proper nouns are pretty much unique names. Eschatology, theology, future, etc, are not proper nouns. Ian.thomson (talk) 05:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I can assure you Ian.thomson that I used Biblical Scripture as a reference... but you would have only seen that if you had waited until I had finished editing.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proper%20noun — Preceding unsigned comment added by *Castle&Gardens* (talk • contribs)

As I just explained: the Bible is a primary source, and so is only used to provide context for information from other sources. As I explained before that: Misplaced Pages does not use original research, which would include interpreting the Bible.

In other words, if you want to make a claim about what the Bible says, you need to find another source (a mainstream academic source). Misplaced Pages does not accept a user's claimed expertise in the matter, it sticks to published professionals.

And yes, as that Merriam Webster link explains, proper nouns are particular persons, places, or things. For example, "Walmer Castle" is a particular castle, but "castle" is not, even if it is referring to Walmer Castle -- Walmer Castle is a particular instance of a castle, but castles are not particular. The words "concentric wall," "bastions," and "cannons" are by no means particular, even if they refer to a set of those non-particular objects. If you feel that expertise should be at least considered, my degree is in English.

Also, do not use Roman numerals for dates, per the Manual of Style's section on dates. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes Ian.Thomson... but I have other sources by published Authors other than the Bible, which I was still going to reference... but no one can every get anything done if people keep undoing. I honestly think Misplaced Pages should stop with the undo Button and instead allow a refute page which certain Posters highlights by different colours.

In regards to Proper Nouns I am very well educated in their use and find that it their use can be seen to be lacking in a certain Countries... I am aware for that reason which Countries any Poster is from on their usage of the English Language.

Also am I to believe that you are a Cyber-Stalker? Or is there any particular reason why you are following my edits? Are you the Wiki-Police? Or perhaps a friend of Julian himself? Do tell I am infinitely intrigued...