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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller talk 13:17, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Editors are expected to treat each other with respect and civility. On this encyclopedia project, editors assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at Talk:Shroud of Turin. Here is Wikipedia's welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! Thank you very much! Doug Weller talk 13:18, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A cursory review of Shroud of Turin talk pages reveal many examples of experienced Wikipedia editors calling people “shroudies” who should “expect to be ridiculed” for suggesting that the Shroud is Jesus’ authentic burial cloth. My assessment that biased editors are interfering with the Shroud of Turin article’s neutrality is accurate and not based in assumption. Gilgur (talk) 14:49, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We are not neutral. We are mainstream, see WP:WPNOTBIASED. Doug Weller talk 15:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Wikipedia is in fact neutral. WP:NPOV. Neutrality is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia: WP:PILLARS. Neutrality and tending to mainstream are not mutually exclusive. Gilgur (talk) 15:45, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, you think I might not know that? I'm one of the most experienced and senior editors here:

"All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.

NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. It is also one of Wikipedia's three core content policies; the other two are "Verifiability" and "No original research". These policies jointly determine the type and quality of material acceptable in Wikipedia articles, and because they work in harmony, they should not be interpreted in isolation from one another. Editors are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with all three." Doug Weller talk 16:14, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Doug Weller talk 16:15, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]