User talk:Augustine connor

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September 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sign singing has been reverted. Your edit here to Sign singing 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://vimeo.com/46525950) 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. a sound or video file) 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) 00:48, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, Augustine connor, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Explanation of reverts
Hi! I noticed that one of Wikipedia's bots reverted your contributions at sign singing. I wanted to explain why this happened.

What ultimately caused this was likely the addition of a YouTube link. These tend to be automatically reverted because in most cases the scene was uploaded by someone who did not own the media's copyright, which was the case with the video of the Happy Hands Club scene. Even if that person says that the copyright is held by someone else, it's still considered to be a copyright violation per Wikipedia's guidelines, so we can't use the link. A better option is to find a written source that says the same thing, as those are more accessible as a whole. You can use video sources, but because you have to verify that the person uploading the video is the copyright holder, it can be difficult.

Also, be very careful with sourcing. It's always good to get an independent source, as this can help verify that the claims are legitimate. (The exception here would be if we had something that was created by Jared Hess that backs up the claims. It would be primary, but it would be a little more legit since he created the film.) The reason for this is that a primary source can make many claims, but sometimes they're not always true or the truth is stretched a little to be more complimentary or tell a better tale. In this situation I'd be surprised if the claims weren't true, but without an independent source it's hard to 100% verify this.

Interesting information, though - I hope you can find another source for this, as it's really a neat factoid! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:22, 8 September 2017 (UTC)