User talk:Ddinhofer

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March 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Bourbon chicken has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline 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. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WdFFVrpnL0. 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. 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) 03:16, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Explanation for the revert at bourbon chicken
Greetings, saw that your reverted edits at bourbon chicken were made in good faith, and reckoned you deserved a message from an actual human instead of just the revert bot. The reason the bot reverted your edit is because it was mostly links; the bots tend to revert such edits to keep people from dumping dozens of tangentially-related links into an article. Basically, the bot is set up to enforce WP:NOTLINK automatically.

Aside from the link issue, your edits were what we call "original research" (WP:OR), and thus would have been reverted even by a human editor. There's nothing wrong with OR in normal life, but on Wikipedia information must be verifiable by some reliable source (WP:RS). Edits like "from what I've read, this dish may be a type of Chinese fusion..." don't qualify for WP, since it's the opinions of an anonymous person who's not necessarily an expert on food history. The goal is to compile information that's been recorded in reliable sources, and organise it into a concise, encyclopedic format, linked to other articles. To make up an example:


 * The origins of bourbon chicken are controversial, with some historians claiming it to be a traditional Chinese dish adapted to American ingredients, while others believe it to be a purely American dish that was adopted by Chinese-run cafes in California to cater to American tastes.

Hope that gives you a feel for why your material was reverted. Your instincts are great, it just takes a little familiarity with Wikipedia policy and formatting. Please feel free to drop me a line if you'd like any help fine-tuning your edits. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:56, 14 March 2011 (UTC)