User talk:Drummermark

September 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Chuck Girard has been reverted. Your edit here to Chuck Girard 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.youtube.com/watch?v=22ynkr_6S-U) 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 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, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. 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) 23:11, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

October 2014
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.--John (talk) 20:57, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Help request
Hi, I received this from "John" after editing only around 10 Wiki articles. I'm brand new at this and began by adding a few videos, which I now realize was wrong. Since then I haven't. Why am I considered a spammer?

Thanks,

Drummermark (talk) 21:27, 1 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Drummermark: Please look at this list of the kinds of external links we avoid. In addition, when you add a person to a list, as you did with the Christian musician, you need to make sure there is a reliable source associating them with the topic of the article; does the article on him state with a reference that he is associated with that church? (This often comes up with alumni of schools.) This is an encyclopedia, so so far as possible, all the information on it should be verifiable; when in doubt, give a reference; and we cannot present every possible weblink or opinion piece on something, so your addition of the blog link at Starbucks was also far outside our mission. (In addition, we avoid blogs unless they are part of newspapers, written by journalists; again, we seek to just present the facts as reliable sources state them). I hope that helps set it in context so nobody needs to give you another of those warnings. Thanks for contributing; we do understand everyone makes mistakes, especially at first, since very few people already have experience writing for an encyclopedia! Yngvadottir (talk) 22:28, 1 October 2014 (UTC)