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July 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to The Shock Doctrine, 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. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 02:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

September 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. You posted the following statement in the article on Lev Landau. "Robert Maxwell, the head of Pergamon Press, which publishes some of the English translations of Landau's works, was with him in the car and was instrumental in getting him to the hospital in time." Do you have a reliable source for this information? If the only source for this was a statement by Captain Bob himself, then an appropriate way to phrase it would be that "Maxwell claimed on such and such a date..." (Maxwell's dishonesty is well known.)

For the time being I have deleted the statement about Captain Bob. The rest of the paragraph is backed by citations to reliable sources. Having a completely unsourced statement in that paragraph causes problems.--Toddy1 (talk) 05:45, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Annus Mirabilis papers. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 18:29, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conjectures

Re this edit: please be more careful with the word "conjecture". It is used when a mathematician has a strong belief that a question has a particular answer, without having a full proof. In the case in question, the authors clearly did not have any such belief. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:05, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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