User talk:Andiemackay

Hello, Andiemackay! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. 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 loving Wikipedia 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. Happy editing! Plumbago (talk) 17:02, 19 June 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism 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 Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Savannah apes‎

Hi Andiemackay. You appear to be added self-referential (I presume that you are Andrew D. Mackay) material to the Wikipedia without supplying any reliable sources for them. If your scientific ideas are notable they should already appear within the normal peer-reviewed literature, and be citable to more than just a website. If this is not the case, please attempt to provide some other evidence that they are notable - otherwise your article may be deleted. Best regards, --Plumbago (talk) 17:02, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello and welcome from me, too. We can always use an extra hand around here, but I'd like to help you understand how things operate on Wikipedia. New ideas, no matter how good they are, should not be presented here. They must first gain the attention of more or less important independent people in the real world. As far as I can tell, your ideas on Expanding Earth theory and Savannah apes have not been discussed in sources besides your own web site. That is why I reverted your edits to Expanding Earth theory and have proposed that Savannah apes be deleted (see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Savannah apes). I hope you understand. When you start working on Wikipedia, it is usually a good idea not to edit articles that are closely related to yourself, because it is hard for any of us to maintain the required neutral point of view about our passions. Otherwise, happy editing! --Art Carlson (talk) 08:56, 20 June 2008 (UTC)