User talk:Waisberg

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[edit] your edit to the circumcision intro

You deleted

"In the US when non-ritualistic elective circumcision is chosen, it is largely because of social or cultural expectations, rather than medical concerns."

from the Circumcision article, although that section is citing a proper source in a proper way. It tells what its source says, which is precisely:

"A majority of boys born in the United States still undergo nonritual circumcisions. This occurs in large measure because parental decision-making is based on social or cultural expectations, rather than medical concerns."

In other words, the section is clearly consistent with its cited source. Your agreement (or mine, or any Wikipedian's) with that original source is of no relevance on Wikipedia. Whether a statement is "true" or "untrue" is not a decision to be made on Wikipedia, as this would be WP:OR. Citation of published sources and consistency with that sources are the only relevant criteria, and the section you deleted in good faith, I assume, did cite a source, and in a truthful way. If you do not agree with a source, publish a work in which you contradict that source and see if it get's cited. Alternatively, if you can find any original source that contradicts that statement, you may introduce it into the discussion. Thank you. Jan Jakea 19:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

First off thank you for replying! I think you are right about the doubtful maybe even intentionally bad use of the citation. Thank you also for your ideas of different citation of that source, but for I'm not yet all familar with correct usage of sources or writing articles so I intend on contributing to the discussion only for at least a while. I just wanted to give my 2 cents on how the sentence should be "treated", I posted to that on the circumcision talk page, maybe we wanna continue debate there? Jan Jakea 22:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Protocols Project

The best place to list such a proposed project would probably be a Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. Just follow the guidelines there, and then see what kind of response you get. Badbilltucker 22:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


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