User talk:ProperAndPolite

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Verifiability is required, no original research

Welcome, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Wikipedia's policies and guidelines require that all changes to an article be WP:Verifiable. I notice that in several edits, you have a tendency to try to logic your way into a change by pure reasoning, rather than by relying on sources. For example, in this edit at Wudang Mountains, where you changed "small mountain range" to "mountain range" because "It did not make sense to call it a small mountain range. Mountains are quite large" which is nonsense, because small modifies range, not mountain, and you can most certainly have a small mountain range; or in this edit at Abortion, piping the wikilink Murder using the display text "homicide" for some reasoning of your own invention regarding the legal differences between "homicide" and "murder", which has nothing to do with what anti-abortion protesters are saying. And there are other cases like this one.

But the problem is *not* that you happened to be wrong in these two cases, because you could just as well have been right; that is not the problem. Rather, the problem is that you are trying to use some kind of pure reasoning or logic of your own to determine your changes to content, rather than relying on what the sources say. This is called WP:Original research at Wikipedia, and is completely prohibited. Every change you make to content must be WP:Verifiable; that is, it must be backed by reliable sources (published books, reliable journals or magazines, and certain trusted websites). You cannot modify an article because you believe that "mountains are not small" or because you believe that "murder is an unlawful killing, and Abortion is not always unlawful". You can only modify the articles concerned, because you checked the references about the topic, and the majority opinion in the sources about mountain ranges is that "mountain ranges are not small", or you checked the sources about abortion protesters claims and signage, and you found out that what the abortion protesters are really talking about is "homicide" and not "murder". If the sources don't say that, then you may not add that to the article, regardless of how logical it is (and regardless even if it is true); it's as simple as that.

Going forward, please ensure that every edit you make improves the article in some way, and that every change of fact can be verified by checking the appropriate source. The best way to do this, is by adding a citation to the reliable source that you found and backs up your change. See Help:Footnotes for more guidance on this. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 04:20, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I understand. I apologize for my incompetence and thank you for the help. ProperAndPolite (talk) 15:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)