User talk:Martha p

Welcome!

Hello, Martha p, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Citations[edit]

Hi! I saw the note you added to Rousas_John_Rushdoony and your note on my talk page. First, I'd advise you not to post material (even when you give a citation) that uses nearly identically wording but doesn't use quotation marks. That's a copyright violation. Second, please read the Wikipedia policy on neutrality. For instance, you may not make the Wikipedia claim objectively that RJR's book was an example of "extreme racism." Rather, you need to say "According to so-and-so, the book is an example of extreme racism," and then provide a footnote (which you did). Third, you may want to read WP:FN for the technical ins and outs of footnoting. One problem with the RJR article was that there was no existing references tag at the bottom (I added it). You also didn't have the fields filled out properly in the {{cite_news}} template and you had grammatical and spelling errors, but I fixed those problems, too. Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions! --Flex (talk|contribs) 20:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see User_talk:Flex#Hi for an answer to your follow-up question. --Flex (talk|contribs) 20:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, I think the author of that article doesn't have enough context about presuppositionalism. RJR was drawing on the philosophy espoused by Cornelius Van Til (under whom Schaeffer also studied), whose ideas are most often applied as presuppositional apologetics. --Flex (talk|contribs) 20:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Holocene extinction event[edit]

Your recent addition to Holocene extinction event included a ref to a Mother Jones article. When I clicked on the citation, the article returned was totally irrelevant. The information added was in fact a direct copy from http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/05/gone-2.html . Please refrain from copying material that is under copyright into Wikipedia articles. Vsmith 13:48, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, your addition to Census of Marine Life was a direct copyvio from http://oneplanetonelife.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=78 Vsmith 13:57, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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