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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Kautilya3 (talk) 08:22, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Regarding the discussion on the Sikhism article

[Copied from Talk:Sikhism]

I do apologize for the apparent personal attack. That was never my intention. It really was a question to understand if the "two theories"-theory has been taken from some source ? From [71] ?

Thanks for copying the text here. Now, I am really interested in understanding what the two "competing" theories are ? Is the 2nd theory a contradiction of "Nanak's teachings and Sikhism were a revelation from God, and not a social protest movement nor any attempt to reconcile Hinduism and Islam in the 15th century". If yes, is it a contradiction of all of this ? Or pieces of this ?

And, of course I meant "undo the reverts to my two edits". That request remains based on my arguments above. I hope Ms Sarah Welch would honor it as a gesture of good faith. If not, I am unlikely to pursue this discussion further and would leave it in the good hands of both of you, until I feel there is a genuine need for me to come back and share my views/knowledge. Docxx (talk) 06:03, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Dear Docx, Having given your welcome message above, I thought some further guidance here might help.

• We are all busy people in real lives. We choose to spend time here out of interest. And, yes, contributing to Wikipedia does take time, lots of time in fact.
• What we write on Wikipedia is not based on our "views/knowledge", but rather the views and knowledge of the scholars. Our knowledge comes into play only in knowing a wide range of reliable sources and our ability to understand them and distil them. We cannot put our own views into Wikipedia no matter how strongly we believe them.
• I am glad to see that you are debating the issues on the artcile's talk page instead of edit-warring (which many new editors do). However, you need to truly engage in the discussion, i.e., attempt to understand the viewpoints of the other editors so that all the editors can arrive at a consensus.

I have the Sikhism article on my watch list even though I don't regularly participate there. If you need any help with any points, please feel free to ping me by putting my name like this {{U|Kautilya3}}. All the best. - Kautilya3 (talk) 11:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Dear Kautilya3, thank you for your note. Indeed through my views/knowledge, I did not imply my personal views, but what you state as "the ability to understand and distill" the sources. I would probably post some further message on the Sikhism article talk page. But I also urge you to contribute there based on whatever has been discussed until now. The content that has been included in the article has no consensus whatsoever, and Ms Sarah Welch does not really seem inclined to understand what the vast list of sources say. Despite these concerns, I do not want to indulge in any edit warring, but do expect that the disputed material be taken off till consensus. Docxx (talk) 04:57, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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