User talk:4th Michigan Historian

April 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment has been reverted. Your edit here to 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment 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://4thmichigan.wordpress.com) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 06:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

June 2019
Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Harrison Jeffords have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Your edit here to Harrison Jeffords 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://4thmichigan.wordpress.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 03:04, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Your edit here to 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment 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://4thmichigan.wordpress.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 03:42, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

January 2023
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, as you did at Fort Woodbury, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. TheManInTheBlackHat  (Talk)  03:49, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. 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:. Materialscientist (talk) 03:58, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Rather than trying to explain (once again) that my citations utilizing an external (non-profit) website were not intended as spam, or for any sort of search engine pickup, I would just as soon close my account entirely. The link to the website was meant to provide sources for information that were used in correcting errors found within the current content of the page, and nothing else. In an digital age of information it seems archaic to forbid links to almost any viable external website sources without checking on their legitimacy first. Since I have to continually defend my motives for each edit that I try to make on this site regarding the use of a website citation as a viable source of information, Wikipedia is no longer of any interest to me. I would appreciate it if you would simply just close my account. 4th Michigan Historian (talk) 04:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)