User talk:David H. Burnham

June 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page D. Brenton Simons has been reverted. Your edit here to D. Brenton Simons 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.facebook.com/brenton.simons, https://www.facebook.com/brenton.simons.9) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 02:48, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Samf4u. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to D. Brenton Simons— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Samf4u (talk) 02:52, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Mattspac 03:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at D. Brenton Simons, you may be blocked from editing. Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: D. Brenton Simons was changed by David H. Burnham (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.935587 on 2018-06-03T03:15:30+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 03:15, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Additions to D. Brenton Simons
Hello Mr. Burnham. You left (with a rather rude message) from the help channel before we had a chance to give you an answer to your question. Please note that we are often not at our computers when helpees come in and can't always respond to questions immediately.

I wanted to give you an answer to your question regarding the information you were attempting to post to the D. Brenton Simons article. Wikipedia requires that reliable, secondary sources be provided for content on biographies of living (or recently decreased) individuals. You weren't providing any source that supported the additions you were making. You should also be aware that Facebook and other social media sites are not generally considered reliable sources. Do you have a link to a secondary, reliable source that discusses Mr. Simons' sexuality? If so, we can possibly use that to provide a short statement on the article regarding it.

Please understand that we have to be very careful about information on living people, especially someone's sexuality, on such a high profile site as Wikipedia. You can respect that, yes? The people reverting your additions left messages on this talk page trying to help you understand what you were doing wrong, but I'm not sure you saw those. Best wishes, Waggie (talk) 03:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I also want to point out that when I visited both (he has two?) of Mr. Simons' Facebook pages, I saw nothing in the details about his sexuality there, so it would seem he is not openly gay. Maybe there's something there if you've "Friended" him, but it's definitely not publicly visible. Just saying... Waggie (talk) 03:52, 3 June 2018 (UTC)