User talk:Welcome650

Although some prefer welcoming newcomers with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.

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May 2024

Hello, I'm Air on White. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Robert Adams (spiritual teacher), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Air on White (talk) 06:34, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok, you are correct. Better citation is important. I'm still a bit new at this. Thanks for the heads up! Welcome650 (talk) 07:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

Your recent editing history at Robert Adams (spiritual teacher) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Hi Adam Black,

I have written a bit on the Robert Adam talk page. I have provided well cited material and have not even removed the inane material others have left. I do not want to engage in an edit war. No one talks to me on the talk page except people that agree with me, so what do I do next?

Robert Adams real name is Robert Spiegel. I have newspaper links, birth certificate, marriage license, and pictures of him using the name Robert Spiegel. Anytime I put that up it is immediately removed in favor of inane stuff. What do I mean by inane stuff.

This: "All of a sudden hundreds of bodhisattvas and mahasattvas came out of the forest and sat down in a semi-circle around Adams as the Buddha." And "Adams as the Buddha, gave the bodhisattvas and mahasattvas four principles,..."

This stuff is presented as factual material yet if I present some of the well documented pictures and articles of him posing as Dr. J. Robert Spiegel (his real name but he wasn't a Dr.) or material related to his actual past such as working as a hypnotist, and Science of Mind speaker or his daughter who controls his foundation ... it is immediately removed and I am threatened with a ban.

What do you recommend? Is Wikipedia just meant for fantasy? Welcome650 (talk) 15:25, 17 June 2024 (UTC)