Thread:SENIRAM/@comment-5175866-20160512173235

Hi Seniram. While I do very much appreciate your attempt to lengthen the New Testament article it was obvious that is was from Wikipedia, which is stricltly prohibited. There are few reasons for this, but the most important one is reflected in how obvious it was from Wikipedia (of course I double checked this). Wikipedia attempts to document the Bible "neutrally", which biblically is not possible. This website documents the Bible from the perspective that upholds it is the Word of God, while Wikipedia has a very liberal/atheist slant, due to the signigiantly larger amounts of liberals than conserative Wikipedia editors, as well as "credible" sources are often those against the Bible. One of the driving reasons behind this wiki is to create content that is as biblically in-depth, but serves to promote the Bible as truth; an alternative to Wikipedia. It was obvious based on the amount of times the article explained differences between what Jews and Christians consider canon and what ChrI would encourage you to read more about that here.

The second reason is due to copyright. Almost always when someone copies a Wikipedia article it is not properly attributed (there is no indication it is from Wikipedia) and is a violation of the content license of both Wikipedia and the Wikia network: CC-BY-SA. CC-BY-SA is a license that allows content to be used for any purpose as long as it attributes to the original source (in this case Wikipedia) and uses the same license to redistribute.

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In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat

 