User talk:JerryScotts

Hi. A bit more on the universal peace sign. Over on commons, you uploaded the peace sign as your own work, so I assume that you were its creator. Anyone can upload a file they've made to commons - that is not what we would consider 'publishing' something. We don't publish our own work or ideas here on Wikipedia (per our policy on original research); our goal is to summarise what reliable sources already say about any subject. In order for your peace symbol to be worth mentioning in our article on peace symbols, we would need evidence that your symbol had gained significant traction in reliable, secondary sources that are independent of you and your symbol. The gold standard would be that an academic wrote about it in a book on the history of peace symbols, but lesser sources might be acceptable, for example if lots of people started using your symbol and a newspaper wrote an article about it and where it had come from. None of the sources you cited mentioned your symbol at all however, which leads me to suspect that no secondary sources have written about it. And please also note our COI guidance - if you are writing about your own work, there are steps you are expected to take to declare that properly. Thank you. Girth Summit _(blether) 07:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Girth, Thanks for taking the time to properly put me in my place, since I otherwise no doubt would have kept trying.

I hope to gin up a whole lot of traction given our need for universal peace now more than ever.

Love the handle, BTW.  : ' )

Best,

JerryScotts (talk) 08:59, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not trying to put you in your place exactly, just make sure you understood what we're trying to do here. We get a lot of well-intentioned people trying to publicise their good causes here, but at the end of the day that just isn't what we exist for, and you'd just be wasting your time trying to persevere with it here. Girth Summit _(blether) 14:32, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]