AlanS333

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November 2011

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Wknight94. I noticed you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide verification for your edit. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! Wikipedia articles are written by people like you and me, and we care a lot about the quality of the encyclopedia. Please help us make it better. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks, Wknight94 ^talk 02:43, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I saw that you removed the edit I did. I believe that it was incorrect for you to do so on the basis that i did not provide verification. If you see the other paragraphs under criticism and developement they do not have any cited verification either so on that basis you should have removed those as well. Additionally I did provide verification. It was published under facebook notes which is a reliable source. Additionally if you look under the university of arizona achieves you will find it, but those can't be cited as such as there is no proper way to do so. You may follow the link (verification) provided so you can see for yourself that it is information that has been published. To quote wikipedia:

The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true.

Allright thanks for your interest, and let us keep providing free and reliable information to the world!

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Wknight94. I noticed you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide verification for your edit. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! Wikipedia articles are written by people like you and me, and we care a lot about the quality of the encyclopedia. Please help us make it better. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks, Wknight94 ^talk 17:29, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Maxwell's demon. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
Please note that Facebook notes are most certainly not a reliable source, as you claimed above. Facebook notes are self-published with no editorial nor academic/peer review of the material. Please see WP:RS for clarification on what meets the requirements of being a reliable source. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:03, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Reliable source

I don't understand what you have posted on your own Facebook page. What is in the University of Arizona archives? A paper you did? Was it peer-reviewed and deemed reliable per WP:RS? As for other unverified content on that same page, you are free to remove it as well - also per WP:V and WP:RS. Wknight94 ^talk 18:21, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

So you missed one part of my question. It's not even peer-reviewed, is it? Let alone a reliable source. Since I have become "involved", I will be raising the issue at WP:ANI. You really need to read WP:NOR and WP:RS. Wknight94 ^talk 18:44, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

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3RR warning re: Maxwell's demon

Your recent editing history at Maxwell's demon shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block. If you wish to avoid being blocked, instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to discuss the changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. You may still be blocked for edit warring even if you do not exceed the technical limit of the three-revert rule if your behavior indicates that you intend to continue to revert repeatedly. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:52, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Consensus

Alan,

Please do not re-add the paragraph you're adding to Maxwell's demon until you get consensus for it on the talk page of the article. When someone disagrees with a new addition of material, the onus is on the person wishing to add the material to convince other editors it belongs.

I see people have left you notes about this above, so without wishing to be too aggressive, you need to not add this material anymore, or I'll have to prevent your editing that page until you do discuss it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks, --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:55, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

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Alan, you'll probably find that there's no way to publish this in Wikipedia until some other researcher quotes your work in their own. Preferably a secondary source such as a book discussing different analyses of Maxwell's Demon. 86.168.216.105 (talk) 12:13, 12 November 2011 (UTC)