Eldonm

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Hello, Eldonm, 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:

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Rob Anderson

Hello - please make sure your edits to Rob Anderson (politician) comply with Wikipedia's policy on verifiability and its policy on neutral point of view. Much of the material that you are adding seems to be worded in a promotional manner, and all of it seems to lack citations to reliable third party sources. Please let me know here or at my talk page if you have any questions. Cheers, Steve Smith (talk) (formerly Sarcasticidealist) 22:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

In that case, I don't see any problem with material being cited from there (once it's published), though it still needs to be written in a neutral tone. Besides that, unless the copyright holders of that biography are willing to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, it can't be used here for copyright reasons. Once the biography is online and published, I'd be pleased to help you incorporate material from it into the article, but please do not simply copy and paste it there. Best, Steve Smith (talk) (formerly Sarcasticidealist) 22:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

August 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Rob Anderson (politician) has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/user/robandersonmla). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.
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 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) 22:12, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

conflict of interest

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. 98.248.32.178 (talk) 22:38, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Rob Renner Official Photograph (August 2009).JPG

Thanks for uploading File:Rob Renner Official Photograph (August 2009).JPG. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Alison Redford

Hello Eldonm,

I've removed the vandalism and semi-protected the page (meaning that only established users can edit it) for three months, since it obviously wasn't being watched closely enough; this sort of thing is, unfortunately, all too common on Wikipedia. For future reference, you should be able to remove it yourself without being reverted; had you tried doing so here, and had something gone wrong?

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Steve Smith (talk) 18:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)