User talk:Charles Steen

August 2023
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Midjourney. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Belbury (talk) 14:47, 16 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Belbury, the citation you are referring to is linking to an irrelevant article. You have reverted my edit so that it is now, once again, pointing to the irrelevant article. I'm not sure why you feel the need to link to this particular Washington Post article for the citation in question. Please take a look at the article, and you will see for yourself it offers no value whatsoever for the citation referenced. The Midjourney interface is not discussed or mentioned once.
 * If you do not think the article I cited is reputable enough to be used as a source, then please leave the "citation needed" tag.
 * Furthermore, I would like to disclose that I am not affiliated with the website I used as a citation. If you perform a Google search for "Midjourney web interface", it is the second result. I can bring this up on the talk page, however, if you think it would be more suitable. Thanks. Charles Steen (talk) 16:02, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback, I've moved the reference tag to earlier in the paragraph and added a citation needed tag.
 * The reference you added to the article identified Charles Steen as the author of the blog post. You shouldn't put your own name into a reference to show that you added it to Wikipedia, if that's what you were doing there. Belbury (talk) 16:59, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Belbury. Hopefully another contributor can provide a more credible source for the claim. Since it's an allegation, it might be difficult to provide a solid source for it (especially as the Midjourney team appears to keep most things behind closed doors!). It seems to be a word of mouth thing that was discussed by some of the Midjourney admins on their Discord server a while back.
 * My mistake for marking myself as the author of the blog post, that was definitely not my intention. Cheers. Charles Steen (talk) 17:38, 16 August 2023 (UTC)