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Hi. Alephb erased the paragraph as being a) unsourced and b) as editorialising in regard to Miriam. I put it back in with small changes and a good source. There are plenty more out there, both in regard to "Phinehas priests", and to Miriam's complaint and rebuke. As a rule, I consider that good info always belongs on WP, for the sake of informing the WP users; so that the first obligation of an editor finding unsourced material is to look for sources, and only if such are hard or impossible to find, and asking for assistance on the talk page gave no results, only then to remove the content. Not to remove it out of hand, as a first reaction. Especially not while hinting that the material has a point of view they might not agree to. This paragraph in particular is a very valid piece of info about a socially relevant & closely related topic, there are many related sources out there (see for instance the works quoted in the doctoral thesis I put in), so please do keep it in. Amendments and improvements are a different issue altogether and are always welcome. Thanks, Arminden (talk) 02:52, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia policy (WP:V) is very clear here. Editors will sometimes disagree about when unsourced material should or should not be removed. That is perfectly normal. Some editors will be quicker than others to remove some things. That is also normal. What you absolutely cannot do on Wikipedia is restore unsourced material to the page before you've found sources that support it. This revert [1] is therefore not allowed. You go find sources, then restore material, not the other way around. Alephb (talk) 23:15, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
