User talk:100.15.196.18

April 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page David Smith (journalist) has been reverted. Your edit here to David Smith (journalist) 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QrnFlgyMo) 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 media file (e.g. music or video) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. 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) 03:12, 15 April 2020 (UTC) If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice.

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, David Smith (journalist), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 04:43, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 05:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for edit warring. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Girth Summit  (blether) 10:54, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Further explanation on this block: repeatedly reinstating your preferred version of a page is disruptive. You were adding unsourced content, and external links, which is inappropriate. I'd also say that we don't need to mention every interview with a famous person that a journalist has ever conducted - that's what they do, it's undue. If a particular interview garnered attention from secondary sources, that might be worth including. I'm guessing that you are the journalist himself, or perhaps someone who knows him? There are various guidelines that discourage what you were attempting to do there: take a look at WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WP:OWN, WP:V and WP:COI. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  10:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)