COOTER228

October 2011

Welcome!

Hello, COOTER228, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 18:03, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please don't copy and paste from websites (such as http://www.ofrpc.org/cities/vanburen.html). Drmies (talk) 18:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

December 2011

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Interstate 57. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. I have moved your comment to I-57's talk page. Welcome! –Fredddie™ 02:07, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I've reverted a lot of your additions to the page for the same reason. The formatting doesn't match at all. ALL CAPS are generally not appropriate in article space. If you can back up that the locations of the exits have changed, then please make the appropriate changes; don't just say THIS IS WRONG in the notes column. Thanks. --Rschen7754 19:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

February 2012

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Gossip. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 17:28, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, such as on User talk:Rschen7754, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. Imzadi 1979 → 20:32, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

March 2012

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Carter County, Missouri, you may be blocked from editing. McGeddon (talk) 19:01, 20 March 2012 (UTC)