User talk:5knights1lady

November 2022
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Fuzzy-Wuzzy has been reverted. Your edit here to Fuzzy-Wuzzy was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline (see also this list of frequently-discussed sources). The reference(s) you added or changed (https://www.discogs.com/release/13227525-Eric-B-Hare-Sweet-Potatoes-A-Story-Of-Fuzzy-Wuzzy-Land) 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) 00:31, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Help request

 * I am not familiar with how to seek help and how to understand why this was rejected because of "is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia". What specifically was the violation as The link I provided is the only link I could find that provided details of the published album referenced the particular story I was mentioning? 5knights1lady (talk) 01:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Something more than a Discogs link is needed. Discogs is considered user-generated content. If you can't find anything else, then don't add it. Discogs links are allowed as external links in limited circumstances, but this may be a bit too much of a stretch from the subject matter of the article.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:15, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the response. I hear you but think this could be considered a "limited circumstance" when there are not references that show complete details to published works elsewhere historically speaking. You mention this maybe being too much of a stretch related to the subject matter but the "Other References" aren't to the poem but to the use of the term in other works. I was merely providing a reference to "Other" uses of the term which I thought fit the intent. The reference I provided mentioned "The Land of the Fuzzy Wuzzy" which is a reference to the land of Burma (Myanmar/Sudan) and the people who lived there and shows another viewpoint of the use of the term "Fuzzy Wuzzy". I appreciate the caution with using user generated content but when the page I linked to provided the author and image of the album this should be sufficient to prove it's existence at one point in history when you can't locate the history of it elsewhere. These albums were published prior to publishing copyright dates on media so the closest I can see is that this was created sometime between the mid-1940s to mid-1960s. It is not easy finding references to media like this and in those cases, with a lack of information, until better information can be provided, I fail to see the harm in using a reference such as this to show this as another reference to the term "Fuzzy Wuzzy". I won't comment on this further but would like to point out I fail to see how the book Tintin, The Crab with the Golden Claws is allowed to be referenced but not this album. Once again, I appreciate the time you took to answer my question on this topic. 5knights1lady (talk) 03:30, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Use as an external link is different from attempting to use as a reference. It is not allowed as a reference and, in this case, is far too tangential to be accepted as an external link.
 * Sections like this "other references" or "in popular culture" are notorious for becoming unqualified collections of trivia. The lack of references for your story recording indicates it is, sort of by definition, obscure. The Tintin books are quite well known, but it's still a questionable addition to this section. I'm glad you're trying to contribute a potentially useful fact to Wikipedia, but you should perhaps try some other contributions that don't attract an immediate revert by a bot.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 14:30, 29 November 2022 (UTC)