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Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Responsibility, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. S. Rich (talk) 15:59, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
My additions to Ownership, Rights and Responsibility are not original research. Their validity is self-contained.121.215.173.144 (talk) 16:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I removed your recent additions to Ownership and Rights. We need reliable sources for everything we contribute, even something as self-evident as the tautology you offered. Continuing to add content without sources to support it would be considered disruptive. Jojalozzo 16:24, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
The user S.Rich has a connection with legal systems and is therefore potentially biased with regard to the additions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.215.173.144 (talk) 16:30, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- On the contrary, a user with expertise in on a topic is most welcome as long as they are able to approach the topic from a neutral perspective. Your additions are not being removed because they are troubling (they're philosophical arguments, not legal arguments) but because they do not comply with Wikipedia policy. [Please remember to log in before you edit so it's clear who we're talking with.] Jojalozzo 17:08, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry but my additions are verifiable simply by reading the text. No special knowledge is required. 121.215.173.144 (talk) 16:36, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- That may be so, but Wikipedia is not a forum for you to air your ideas and opinions. It is a repository of information that can be verified using sources. If you are not interested in that approach then editing Wikipedia is probably not for you. But someone with your interest and thinking capacity is most welcome as long as you mostly color within the lines. :-) Jojalozzo 17:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
My additions are not ideas and opinions. The sentences I have written are true. This business of "verifiability, not truth" is highly suspect,given that sources vary from the point of view of truth. I have decided to have no further involvement with Wikipedia due to obstructive and potentially biased (S. Rich) admins. Many thanks but no-thanks. Hopefully you've also realized that the notions of ownership, rights and responsibility are in fact only opinions. If you were consistent you would remove all 3 main articles. Scandash (talk) 07:55, 29 August 2012 (UTC)