User talk:Elliothartley

February 2024
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Chess.com, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Philipnelson99 (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 21:18, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Stonyhurst College, you may be blocked from editing. —Bruce1eetalk 21:53, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Stonyhurst College. —Bruce1eetalk 23:40, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi Elliothartley! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 09:00, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Welcome, but...
Hi there, it is good to see new editors at Wikipedia, and I hope you will choose to stay and edit here, but I wanted to raise an issue (indicated by the warnings above) with your early edits that perhaps shows a misunderstanding that we can clear up. In an edit I have just reverted you added a link to a YouTube video by a young person about the page subject. An IP editor also added the same video yesterday. The video is impressively edited and constructed, but Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion of such media. Self published sources such as this and the instagram accounts you have been adding will always be reverted. Wikipedia is about finding reliable sources to verify encyclopaedic statements and articles about the subject.

Now you may or may not be the creator of the video and accounts in question. Well done if you are, and no need to confirm or deny that. If you are the creator or connected with the creator, you shouldn't be promoting your own work here, but it is likely that you have some good general knowledge on the subjects. You can use that to write articles, and the research you put in to finding reliable secondary sources on Wikipedia might help with creation of new content. I hope you choose to do that, but please be aware that any more additions of promotional content and self published sources could, as per the warnings above, lead to a block. That would be a pity. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 09:11, 6 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for this, I will make sure to take the advice! Elliothartley (talk) 10:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 11:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC) did you read the above on the talk page? This new user noted my comments and agreed they would follow that advice. They have made no other edits since, and they are clearly a new user who should be cut some slack per WP:BITE. I would request you rescind this block, to at least give them a chance to make good on that. Thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 11:12, 6 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi . I believe you are right and the block was ill-advised. I've undone my block and noted as much in the user's block log. I apologize to them for being too quick on the block button and hopefully they take your advice to heart. Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 11:53, 6 February 2024 (UTC)