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Hell in a Bucket (
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11:46, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate
your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to
List of Chinese inventions, it appears that you have added
original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses
combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a
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tutorial on citing sources. Your source does not call them an invention, this looks like your own interpretation.
Doug Weller
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05:32, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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- OK, I'm fairly new at this and not familiar with the rules. What about a source says something like "X was invented in China in 100AD"? But another source gives an example in which X was found in Babylon in 500 BC, but didn't call it an invention? What should take precedence when this occurs? I thought the latter would take precedence but it sounds like you are saying the former should take precedence over the latter
talk 24:44, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
- Presumably they both meet
WP:RS, I'd first look for other sources. I'd also look at the dates. I'd certainly never say something was invented later than it was found somewhere. And don't forget that something can be invented in more than one place, so you can have something which was originally invented on one continent and then independently invented elsewhere. Frankly this 'invented' thing is a minefield, with so many countries or ethnic groups, etc wanting to claim inventions. Right now with its Hindutva government India is doing this. Next time "ping" me, eg {{re|Doug Weller}} but note you can't fix a broken ping, you need to start over with a new signed post.
Doug Weller
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11:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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