User talk:FeoAmante

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Hello FeoAmante, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy, and have been reverted. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

There's a page about the NPOV policy that has tips on how to effectively write about disparate points of view without compromising the NPOV status of the article as a whole. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  · j e r s y k o talk · 19:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verification and NPOV

Here is a response to your query that someone posted on my talk page:

The best way to ensure that others know material you add is true is to provide a reference within the article. Including the link in the edit summary is also helpful, but sources should be referenced primarily within the article. SWAdair 07:26, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I would add that additions must not only be verifiable in reliable sources (accomplished by citing your sources, as SWAdair suggests), but must also be written in a neutral point of view. The addition to Al Gore, which stated, in part, "Failing grades and poor performance continued to haunt him", is doubtfully written from a neutral point of view (extensive use of adjectives to characterize something or someone is usually a tipoff, and "haunt" is a bit much). Finally, when dealing with articles about living persons, Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons requires that unreferenced negative material about such persons be removed. If you feel that you can provide references to reliable sources for the material you added and if you can reword it so that it complies with neutral point of view (NPOV), feel free to make a similar addition to the article. I don't mean to discourage you from contributing here; the rules can be somewhat complicated at times. Cheers. · j e r s y k o talk · 14:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)