Hdaackda

January 2017

Hello, I'm DVdm. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein, but you didn't provide a source. 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! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. DVdm (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hello DVdm. Thank you for your message. I did provide a reference. Now, the reason I edited and inserted the word religious was because there have been a number of quotes of Einstein which give the impression that he did indeed believe in a God that created the universe. I didnt want to write ALL the quotes (they are from different books, written by friends on Einsteins) and their individual references. So I just included 1 source that references ALL the quotes. The link I inserted as reference was: Does Einstein Believe In God - If you see, if gives the quotes such as “My God created laws… His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking but by immutable laws.” and its referenced (from Max Jammer's book “Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology”).

Now, since the topic is Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein, I do think all such quotes deserve a mention. Should we individually add all of them and reference each one or, like I did, just reference it once?? I am sure you can tell I am not an expert in editing on Wikipedia.

Regards

Hdaackda (talk) 20:06, 2 January 2017 (UTC)Hdaackda

@Hdaackda: If you check our policy on wp:verifiable sources, you will find that this particular source does not qualify for Wikipedia. It is a blog, holding someone's personal opinion. Anyone can write anything on a personal blog. Wikipedia needs wp:secondary sources. The best thing you can do, is to go to the article talk page Talk:Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein and open a new section (at the bottom) explaining what you would like to do. But make sure you have some solid sources (with page ISBN numbers and page numbers and such) at hand to support your proposal, as a personal website such as this certainly will not do. - DVdm (talk) 20:41, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

@DVdm: thanks! Heading on to the talk page right now :)

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Making minor changes, as you did, results in Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing, still a violation of copyright policy. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:44, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

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