User talk:Detumaki

April 2021
Hi Detumaki! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Flat roof that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Tol &#124; Talk &#124; Contribs 17:29, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

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.  MrOllie (talk) 15:47, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:03, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

One of your recent edits has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:03, 30 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics not reliable? is the world's largest source of ROOFING CONSULTANTS known as the ROOFING CONSULTANTS INSTITUTE not reliable on Roofing info? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Detumaki (talk • contribs)


 * The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reliable. 'coconsultantsforroofing.com' is a self published website and blog and is not considered to be a reliable source on Wikipedia. Kindly stop adding links to it. - MrOllie (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Question. Wikipedia contains thousands of links to website's selling a product, contractors blogs, etc. Why is a nationally recognized consultant (The individual consultant is amongst one of 45 people worldwide to ever complete the HCI-RCW program), writing on the page of a consulting firm, which cites sources, not accepted? Genuine curiosity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Detumaki (talk • contribs)


 * Wikipedia is a large site and volunteer time is limited. Often inappropriate links persist for a while (sometimes a long while) until they can be reviewed and removed. This is not a reason to add to our problems by adding more inappropriate links. - MrOllie (talk) 16:24, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

That seems contrary to the common practice here. Nearly every roofing article references contractors websites, roofpedia (a blog), or product marketing. If an internationally published author writes a blog article, it is dismissed. At what point to we distinguish between "A recognized proffesional's blog" being bad and a "non professional with no experience posting with no references'. Are only news organizations and government's then recognized? I'm trying to discover at what point is data recognized. What sources should I go to? How does wikipedia distinguish without reading or knowing any context?