User talk:CMVARI

January 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Minnette Vári has been reverted. Your edit here to Minnette Vári 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWHJCDeUq7U) 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) 02:08, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
Hi Minnette,

From your username, I assume that you are Minnette Vári, or someone closely associated with her. This means that you have a conflict of interest in this case, so you should not edit that article directly. There are good reasons for this, which you can read about in this policy document. Essentially, Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion, like MySpace or Facebook. It's an encyclopedia, and it's written from a neutral point of view. This is very difficult to do when you're writing about yourself. Even Jimmy Wales was guilty of this, so you're in good company.

Instead of just reverting your edits, I've tried to keep the parts that are notable, verifiable and neutral. I am not an artist, so it's a bit difficult for me to judge this, though.

I assume you are now thinking "The article about me is inaccurate and incomplete, but I can't edit it! What should I do?"

You have a number of options.
 * You can leave comments on Talk:Minnette Vári, but of course it could take a while before they are seen.
 * A few editors have now interacted with you on this page (your user talk page) - you can leave messages on their talk pages asking for help (for example, you can reach me at User_talk:Slashme.
 * There is an active South African Wikipedia/Wikimedia community, and they can be reached at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_South_Africa.

I hope you keep editing Wikipedia. We need more editors from diverse backgrounds, and as an artist with an interest in technology, you're ideally placed to help out here. Let me know how your first experiences here have been. Wikipedia is often described as unfriendly and difficult to navigate, so as someone who likes to help new users, it's important for me to understand the frustrations involved.

Best wishes,

David

--Slashme (talk) 09:29, 24 February 2016 (UTC)