Arthunter77

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October 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Tape art has been reverted.
Your edit here to Tape art was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://street-tape-art.blogspot.com) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 11:29, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Note that Wikipedia articles don't use "WP:LINKFARM" directories for something like a list of artists; they should be a list of links to Wikipedia articles about those artists (where those articles exist). Usual practice is just to have a single, good link to an offsite directory in the "External links" section. --McGeddon (talk) 11:33, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Slava Ostap

The article Slava Ostap has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable artist. All references are self-published; no independent sources to be found.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 19:03, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Arthunter77. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 19:05, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I understood what you mean. So if some gallery or my fan make the same article, is it ok then ? TNX Arthunter77 (talk) 20:18, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

It's not okay if your gallery makes the article (they have a conflict of interest as well), but if a fan with no personal connection to you could write it, that'd be fine. --McGeddon (talk) 20:48, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Please keep the above policy in mind when editing articles related to yourself or your practice. You should be careful when editing the tape art article directly - deciding that the article is best illustrated by four of your own artworks and nobody else's may be demonstrating some intentional or unintentional bias. --McGeddon (talk) 10:12, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

"Q&A WITH DUCT TAPE ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE Slava Ostap" and deleting someone else's blog because you think they have a conflict of interest isn't great either. Please avoid writing about Ostap in articles if you have a conflict of interest yourself. --McGeddon (talk) 10:13, 25 May 2016 (UTC)