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talk I am totally lost and overwhelmed right now. I understand what you have said about that single comment. This article contains several unsupported statements and most of it is one sided so I was attempting to add balance and blundering about. I think instead of editing this one I will write one instead. It will be good experience. My educational background is in this area, I spent the last six months researching this very topic, and I have information on every category you list that is not included in this article. I don't know what I am doing on Misplaced Pages yet, but I know this subject, and I know how to write! I hope! We'll see! Thank you for your help! Jenhawk777 (talk) 22:11, 15 May 2017 (UTC)Jenhawk777

Misplaced Pages and copyright

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Thank you so much for your help, I am definitely still figuring this out. I rented an article for two days and put a bunch of it directly into the draft because I didn't feel like I had time to go through and decide what I would use and what I wouldn't, so I copied it with the intent of editing it afterwards. Is it okay if I restore what you took out with that end in mind? I will be careful. There is another article here already on this subject that has been marked for bias. I attempted to edit it first, but all my edits got reverted. He wrote me to explain why he reverted one paragraph--inadequate referencing--and I agreed on that one paragraph, but he reverted all of them without comment on the rest. I figure he has a point of view he is pushing and is not going to accept anything else so I am trying to write something more neutral and will then leave it to you guys to decide what to do with them both. I didn't know anyone was monitoring my draft! It is nowhere approaching done! Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:01, 24 May 2017 (UTC)Jenhawk777Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:01, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Violence and Christianity

Hi - I'm sorry to say but this is not at all likely to be accepted. We of course already have an article on the subject - read WP:REDUNDANTFORK. The larger problem is that it doesn't meet our policies and guidelines. It might do as an essay but not as an article. It fails WP:VERIFY and no original research for a start. You might want to read this essay also.Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, not truth Your introduction, which we call a WP:LEAD, does not summarise the article but makes an argument. And "This approach will be used throughout this article" is something we can't say because no one owns an article. You may want an article to follow a certain approach, but someone can come along and so long as they follow our policies and guidelines and stick to the topic they can abandon that approach.

You might want to get some feedback on this by asking at the WP:Teahouse or Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Christianity/Noticeboard, don't just take my word for it. Doug Weller talk 13:24, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Apologies, I forgot to respond. I still don't think it will be acceptable as it's a duplicate article, but I urge you again to ask at the Teahouse. Doug Weller talk 09:32, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Here's a proper invitation for you. Click on the big TH to go there

Hello! Jenhawk777, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Misplaced Pages for new editors to ask questions about editing Misplaced Pages, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Doug Weller talk 09:39, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Draft page

Hi Jenhawk777 - ] is something it looks like you have put a lot of work into. It appears to be a collection of thoughts about various things that you would like to incorporate into Christianity and violence; it is not actually a draft article. If this is true, it really should be in your userspace; drafts are for actually drafts. Do you know how to move a page? If not, I can move it for you.

There is some other stuff I would like to discuss with you about that document in the context of Misplaced Pages, but first things first... Jytdog (talk) 19:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)