User talk:Gabef8008

April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to The Way to Happiness, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Please provide a citation to a secondary source which satisfies WP:RS and WP:V, stating that L. Ron Hubbard was a "humanitarian", or else this information is unsourced and a violation of the WP:NOR policy on Wikipedia. Cirt (talk) 14:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The Way to Happiness

Please do not remove the WP:NOR tags from this article until unsourced information and violations of the No Original Research policy have been dealt with properly. Thank you. Cirt (talk) 10:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to The Way to Happiness. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please stop adding unsourced information in violation of the WP:NOR policy to this article. If you wish to add information, please provide a citation, preferably to a secondary WP:RS/WP:V source. Thanks. Cirt (talk) 10:53, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Stifle (talk) 11:51, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced information/whitewashing

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as the one you made to The Way to Happiness.
Any further vandalism will result in your being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Stifle (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to The Way to Happiness. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Stifle (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Edits to The Way to Happiness

Hello:

I have devoted more time to reading your rules and agree to abide by them. I am fascinate dy Wikipedia and would like to continue adding neutral, correct information regarding the Way to Happiness.

I'd like to learn more on how to tag information that others add which I find incorrect and I would like to learn how to defend my addtions where I cite primary research supported by secondary research and that is deleted by a user.

To be clear, I am a pro Scientology. The person (Cirt) editing the article is clearly anti-scientology. I have no problem with his adding his "controversial" content but I would like to add correct, verifiable, netural, encyclopedic content which sheds light on positive aspects of The Way to Happiness and would like it to remain there, and not be summarily deleted (vandalized) and stilted to a negative connotation (pulp fiction) and the Humanitarian issue.

If you are going to be watching these edits, I'd like your advice on this.

I would like to add after the first line of the defition. The scentence "The Way to Happiness is available in 93 languages and, to date, over 74 million copies have been distributed world wide" This is a primary research fact from The Way to Happiness Foundation.

I'll wait a few days for your reponse, in the meantime I'll refrain from editing this page and read your policies.

Regards

Gabriel Gabef8008 (talk) 20:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

If you have a secondary source (i.e. a newspaper, book, or magazine unconnected with Scientology) that states that fact, you can add that, otherwise you can't. Please see WP:SPS for more information about this.

We're all declaring our interests here, so I'll be clear that I am passively anti-Scientology (i.e. I tell people I don't like it, rather than joining Anonymous or protesting to try and get it banned. But I absolutely defend your right to contribute here insofar as you can do so in compliance with policy. Stifle (talk) 20:31, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Stifle:

Thank you for your post. I've studied the verifiability policy and will abide by it. I will contact The Way to Happliness to collect third party articles from reliable sources which shed a postive light on the Way to Happiness. I'm sure there are many.

Thank you for your candor in your point of view regarding Scientology. I respect it. And thank you for your statement in protecting my rights to contribute in compliance with your policies.

Would you accept a copy of The Way to Happiness as a token of my appreciation for your defense of my rights?

Regards,

Gabriel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabef8008 (talk • contribs) 14:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

No thanks. Stifle (talk) 12:39, 4 May 2008 (UTC)