User talk:Cinepunk

Cinepunk, you are invited on a Wikipedia Adventure!
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February 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 Cécile Fatiman has been reverted. Your edit here to Cécile Fatiman was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (http://bwakayiman.blogspot.ca/2016/12/cecile-fatiman-wasnt-muslim.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) 07:17, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

August 2017
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. Caution for adding reference spam to http:///bwakayiman.blogspot.com (as well as http://bwakayiman.blogspot.ca'') on multiple articles. Blogs are NOT reliable sources, and can NOT be used as references!'' - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 16:44, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * http:///bwakayiman.blogspot.com is not spam. It's an ongoing historical research that is posted on a blog for more accessibility. Please read the related well-researched articles before painting all blogs with a broad stroke. And also, the amont of shared articles expand with time, as several aspects related to the beginning of the Haitian revolution are studied separately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinepunk (talk • contribs)
 * "Ongoing historical research" is both original research and a primary source, and disallowed for those reasons too, in addition to being posted on a blog. So no, that blog is not allowed as a reference here, and will be removed at sight. We even have a bot that removes such links, as can be seen in the automated message above this section. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 19:34, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. The site in question is 100% based on archival and first witness historical material. Every single point is properly referenced to the extent only found in scientific journals. The purpose of that "historical blog" is just like Wikipedia, to make valid historical research accessible to the masses that are bombarded by often published urban legends. But you will not comprehend it unless you take a look at the citation section of our articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinepunk (talk • contribs)
 * In that case you'll have to use your citations as citations here too (provided they comply with our rules, see WP:RS and WP:V), instead of going by way of the blog, because you can not use the blog as reference. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 20:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Okay. Thank you for your time. Although the wikipedia process seems fair, it is ill-equipped to deal with the Haitian revolution, as most of the valid information can only be found in very recent findings posted by scholars on different historical blogs. For instance, there is little accurate information about the Haitian revolution on the Wikipedia pages, as mean-spirited writers have been publishing false data on that subject for decades. For instance, "Dutty Boukman" is a fallacy. The first name was Boukman and the last Dutty (as in the name of his slave master). But who can even suggest such a change, when so many publications are pushing such falsehoods. Oh well. Thanks again. Perhaps when our articles are published in a book format, these changes may be suggested. But it is an uphill battle to fight well-oiled propaganda with hard facts.