User talk:Duane W. Hamacher

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November 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project has been reverted. Your edit here to Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project 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 (http://aboriginalastronomy.blogspot.com.au/) 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) 08:02, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Autobiographies
Please read WP:AUTO now. Also WP:COI. There is a history on Wikipedia of self-promotional editing attracting adverse publicity and being self-defeating. Philip Trueman (talk) 09:16, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Duane W. Hamacher for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Duane W. Hamacher is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Duane W. Hamacher until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Safiel (talk) 16:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Logging in
Remember your password and ensure that you have a disaster recovery plan. Logging in is a good thing. Try to do it every time that you edit. Logging in under your normal name is also a good thing, certainly for academics. There are plenty of academics, including a number of mathematicians for example, who do that here. It not only gets any conflict-of-interest issues dealt with up front, but it can also bolster an academic reputation. See the case of Dr. Michel Aaij (,, and ). As long as you don't try to get unpublished unreviewed ideas of your own on here, or puff yourself, or try to fight an external battle here on Wikipedia, and stick to editing a wide range of topics giving established views and ideas that you can back up with print, you'll not go far wrong. See the welcome message above for the policies and guidelines, of course. Uncle G (talk) 10:06, 4 December 2012 (UTC)