Valynchings

March 2022

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Hi, there are several broken hyperlinks to the website, I just tried to fix them. Also, those links are already being extensively used in the entry, I tried to add an explicit reference to them to help clarify the debate about this case being a lynching or not (I would think that a case being included in academic inventories of lynching would be relevant information for readers). Thanks! Ringo85 (talk) 17:48, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Please read through wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and ensure you are abiding by them. Rather than making an edit that links to your own website, the best thing to do in future is to use the article's talk page to request an edit. Thank you Melcous (talk) 22:38, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I will request and edit as suggested. I looked at the conflict of interest guidelines and under "Making uncontroversial edits", it says "Editors who have a general conflict of interest may make unambiguously uncontroversial edits. They may: [...] 4. repair broken links". That is what I tried to do, but the repaired links were rejected anyways, not sure why. Thanks again. Ringo85 (talk) 00:17, 31 March 2022 (UTC)