User talk:Tamuren
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Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Oak Bay, British Columbia, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Dethme0w (talk) 03:56, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Can you help me find a source on the section I added in? It's very important to me that I put it on there, but I'm having a hard time with the 'resources' thing as I'm new to wikipedia and that was my first edit.
- Can you tell me how this is relevant to Oak Bay? I don't see the relevance. Dethme0w (talk) 04:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Further to this, I would like to alert you to some policies on Wikipedia that you may not be aware of. First off, Wikipedia is not a soap box. You may not use Wikipedia to make political statements or complain about being evicted. Second, Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. The edit you made to Oak Bay, British Columbia appears to be something of your own invention. If I am wrong about this, then you need to cite reliable sources for example, newspaper articles to support your claims. And of course, there is the basic geographical fact that Pedder Bay is 13 miles, as the crow flies, from the nearest point in Oak Bay. This issue does not belong in an article about Oak Bay. And because Wikipedia is not a soapbox or a publisher of original thought, I don't think the issue belongs in Wikipedia. You also have to consider whether this issue is notable enough for inclusion in an encyclopedia with a world wide audience. Land owners evict their tenants so they can redevelop all the time. Why is Pedder Bay any different? You have to show how for your comments (ignoring the other issues) to be suitable for an encyclopedia. Dethme0w (talk) 04:12, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Can you tell me how this is relevant to Oak Bay? I don't see the relevance. Dethme0w (talk) 04:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
-Understood. You have made me understand that what is happening is not note-worthy and that it doesn't matter if people are or are not evicted from their home to a world-wide audience. I guess I'll tell no one. I wrote that it was in Oak Bay from asking a friend who lives in Pedder Bay. I've lost interest in spreading the story because now it seems too hard.
- Please understand that it's not that your issue is insignificant to a world-wide audience, just that it's (sadly) another example of a problem that is very common. And it is soapboxing which we don't allow here. I would encourage you to create a website of your own to draw attention to this issue. Dethme0w (talk) 04:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
