User talk:Purplesplat

Hello Purplesplat, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Purplesplat, good luck, and have fun. --bonadea contributions talk 05:40, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article PlentyofFish, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

Please note that the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. While this policy admits that in practice, every piece of information does not need to be sourced, the text you suggested cannot be added without a source, unfortunately. The first of the two paragraphs is original research unless it can be directly attributed to a reliable source; the second paragraph is of unclear encyclopedic value unless the commission and its work has been noted in sources independent of itself.

It may seem a bit counterintuitive to forbid people from adding knowledge which they themselves are the only source for - but verifiability in reliable sources is one of the core policies of Wikipedia. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 05:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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Hello, Purplesplat. You have new messages at Noq's talk page.
Message added 08:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

noq (talk) 08:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

June 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Male contraceptive. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.  -- WikHead (talk) 00:52, 9 June 2012 (UTC)