User talk:Zvezdara Forest

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A summary of some guidelines you may find useful

• We do not publish original thought nor original research. We can only summarize primary sources, but to comment on them, or cross-reference them with primary sources, we really need a secondary source.
• Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment). Ian.thomson (talk) 11:56, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Regarding human sacrifice

Wikipedia still does not accept original research. That means we do not interpret sources, and we cannot cross reference primary sources. Right now, the article just mentions what the Primary Chronicle says (which is a problem). Mauricius's Strategikon is also a primary source (that covers a different period of history). It can be included, but we cannot cross reference primary sources, nor can we elaborate on them.

What the article needs to do is a secondary source (that is, a book by a modern historian that examines primary sources like the Primary Chronicle and the Strategikon).

Part of your edit included "More recent studies have shown..." and yet you included no source whatsoever to demonstrate that this information was part of newer studies. Also, you did not cite any sources for Perun's role in the Slavic religion, nor did you cite any sources as to why it is relevant. It does not matter whether or not the information is true (I am not arguing that one way or the other): it is about sources.

I have restored the Mauricius quotation, with the only context that is allowed: it's author and date. I added another source to clearly identify the quote as being specifically about the Slavs, since the quote does not directly name what group is being discussed. I have also added the date for the Primary Chronicle, sorted the sources according to their era, and brought in some secondary sources. It is up to the reader and secondary sources to decide which sources are accurate. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:16, 6 June 2011 (UTC)