User talk:Bvaughn0402

January 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page The Shack has been reverted.

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8gm0c3mcu, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4q87x7ujs). 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 and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.

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 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) 13:55, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

February 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8gm0c3mcu). 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 and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.

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 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) 20:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Video links?
Hi B- would you please stop adding the youtube link into our The Shack article? Surely you've seen the other notices telling you to stop. If you repeatedly insert the link it will be repeatedly removed, any you may be blocked. If you're knowledgeable about The Shack, it would be great if you could contribute some useful material. We always need more help. Staecker (talk) 21:53, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I wish you would quit deleting relevant threads as if you had a monopoly on the content of the page. I am personal friends with the author, and the video on Youtube IS relevant to the book as it is one of the few unbiased and fair reviews of the book on the market.  I would appreciate if you would use more academic vigor in how you decide what should and should not be on there. Bvaughn0402 (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC) Brandon
 * Thanks for replying Brandon. Wikipedia has fairly well-developed guidelines about what constitutes helpful external links, and for various reasons outlined at WP:EL, that video doesn't make the cut (in my opinion). Of course you are free to disagree, but you must make your case based on the EL guideline. I am familiar with academic standards in general, and Wikipedia rules are a bit different in some cases. I hope that I don't seem to be acting like I own the page- Wikipedia also has a policy against that (see WP:OWN). Since I'm not the only one who's been removing the link, I don't feel like I'm being too unilateral. As for the video, I do actually think it's a fair review which does a very good job of enumerating its own preconceptions and biases (if any), which is a practice sorely lacking in evangelicalism. But this doesn't make it a good external link. Staecker (talk) 23:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * By the way, you were right about my lame Mohler citation. I think it was within policy (WP:CITE), but I've got a better citation now. Staecker (talk) 00:01, 4 February 2009 (UTC)