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September 2007 edit
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Clifford K. Berryman. Please be careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Auroranorth 13:02, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Clarence Joseph Bulliet. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. Auroranorth 13:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'm curious as to what content was "removed" or "deleted". I checked out the edits to these two articles and this editor added (and subsequently modified) external links that arguably improved the article. No content was removed, although the links have since been challenged as link spam. MrDarwin 00:38, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Please stop edit
Could you please stop adding external links for the moment and join in on a discussion that has been opened on WT:WPSPAM (click here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#http:.2F.2Fwww.aaa.si.edu). It may very well be that the links you are adding are appropriate, but the way you are adding them is in conflict with our guidelines on conflict of interest, spam, and possibly external links. Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Spamming of http://spam.aaa.si.edu edit
You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. --Hu12 14:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may place {{unblock}} on your user talk page to have the block reviewed. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. --Hu12 02:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Did anybody actually look at this user's edits? Is it the general practice to block new editors just 7 minutes after their first warning? Please keep in mind the Wikipedia policies of Wikipedia:Assume Good Faith and Wikipedia: Please don't bite the newcomers. MrDarwin 00:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Comment posted at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. MrDarwin 01:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Hi! Wanted to let you know that it is possible to appeal a block in Wikipedia. You can do so by typing {{unblock|your reason here...}} here on your talk page, which you can still edit while blocked. See Appealing a block for more information. Some editors have questioned whether a block is appropriate in your situation, so would like to let you know that this avenue exists. Best, --Shirahadasha 01:51, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Hi! After further review of your edits, I have unblocked you. However, because there is still considerable question about the appropriateness of both your userid name and your edits given your relationship to the AAA (See Special purpose accounts), I would appreciate it if you would voluntarily not add further links to Smithsonian Instutition AAA materials until this matter has been clarified. Feel free to comment on here and explain the nature of your account and edits. If another administrator disagrees with my unblocking, I will not interfere further. Best, --Shirahadasha 02:54, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Wanted to let you know that after further review, another editor has restored the links that you had previously added and which had been deleted. There appears to have been something of a misunderstanding. Best, --Shirahadasha 22:57, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- I endorse unblock and also the request not to add new links without consultation with other editors. There is a policy on adding external links, which we discourage, especially when they are added en masse. That said, we appreciate interaction with major institutions and recognise that they can make a valuable contribution. There is a conflict of interest aspect here, so that is why it is important that neutral editors are involved. A standard procedure here is to suggest the link on an article talk page (click "discussion" tab at the top of the article and post new material at the bottom of the talk page). Another approach is to add content to the article and use the link as a reference. If in doubt, you are welcome to ask! See guide to referencing below. Tyrenius 13:49, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Guide to referencing edit
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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can removed unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started.
A reference must be accurate, i.e. it must prove the statement in the text. To validate "Mike Brown climbed Everest", it's no good linking to a page about Everest, if Mike Brown isn't mentioned, nor to one on Mike Brown, if it doesn't say that he climbed Everest. You have to link to a source that proves his achievement is true. You must use Reliable sources, such as published books, mainstream press, authorised web sites, and official documents. Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, fan sites and extreme minority texts are not usually acceptable, nor is Original research, e.g. your own unpublished, or self-published, essay or research.
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section. This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:
The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):
Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.
Copy the following text, open the edit box for this page, paste it at the bottom (inserting your own text) and save the page:
(End of text to copy and paste.)
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For a book it might look like this:
An online newspaper source would be:
Note the square brackets around the URL. The format is [URL Title] with a space between the URL and the Title. If you do this the URL is hidden and the Title shows as the link. Use double apostrophes for the article title, and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics). The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead. Wikilinks (double square brackets which create an internal link to a wikipedia article) function inside the ref tags. Dates are wikilinked so that they work with user preference settings.
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the <ref> code:
The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:
You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! A short cut will only pick up from higher up the page, so make sure the first ref is the full one. Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them.
You can see refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are 3 sources and they are each referenced 3 times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.
When you become familiar with the process, the next step is to have one section, "Footnotes", with links embedded in the text, and another, "References", which lists all of your references alphabetically with full details, e.g. for a book:
If you're ready to go into it further, these pages have detailed information:
I hope this helps. If you need any assistance, let me know. Tyrenius 13:49, 6 September 2007 (UTC) |