User talk:A Southern Horror Fan

August 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Red Kingdom Rising has been reverted. Your edit here to Red Kingdom Rising 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 (http://asouthernlifeinscandaloustimes.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-review-of-red-kingdom-rising.html) 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 blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). 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) 19:10, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Demon In The Mist
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Demon In The Mist, and it appears to be a substantial copy of https://www.createspace.com/3958452.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

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Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page Demon In The Mist, 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 Demon In The Mist 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 (http://rickeyrussellwritings.weebly.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) 19:29, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Demon In The Mist


A tag has been placed on Demon In The Mist requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://rickeyrussellwritings.weebly.com/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Some notes
First, the copyright question. Wikipedia is licensed for reuse by anyone anywhere under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0. Your text isn't, so we can't accept it into Wikipedia. There is a licensing procedure, but this involves losing the right to control where your text ends up, and what happens to it. Second, and then again, there's the problem of notability. Your book is self-published. Nothing wrong with that per se - it can lead to a major (or at least regular) publisher taking your work on. But, self-published books rarely achieve notability because the authors haven't got the resources to publicise them to the extent that the regular publishers can, apart from all the other things like pre-publishing editing. Sure, self-pub gives you a bigger share of the dollars. But it's usually a big slice of a very small cup-cake, as opposed to a reasonable slice of a much bigger catering-sized gateau. That's the financial side, which is irrelevant here. It's the notability we need to see. The reliable independent sources (WP:RS) that are the reviews in the bigger (not local) papers or reputable review sites (but not at Amazon or Goodreads, etc) come with the publicity generated by the publisher who wants to shift books. The self-publishing houses (CreateSpace, AuthorHouse, Xlibris, lulu dot com, etc) have comparatively low overheads, and while they give you a page on their site, they don't spread the word. Third, that's not what Wikipedia is for. We'll happily have an article when your book is in the NYT bestsellers, but we don't help you on the way to that. I advise keeping on at the big names (and relevant smaller ones too) to try to get a deal. Good luck, anyway. I hope you find that back door that's often the key to success. Peridon (talk) 20:33, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * As an additional note, it is considered a conflict of interest to write about yourself or your own works. Best to leave that to a disinterested third party who has no personal or professional connection to you. You can read more about this in Wikipedia's plain and simple conflict of interest guide. --Drm310 (talk) 20:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Please stop spamming your blog
Please do not rapidly add links to your blog to multiple articles. See our guidelines on how not to be a spammer, how to manage a conflict-of-interest, and inappropriate external links. We welcome your contributions, but Wikipedia is not here to promote your blog. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:37, 1 September 2014 (UTC)