User talk:EmilyW

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Proposed deletion of Generation Α


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March 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mark McCrindle 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=W5TZ_xkD-2o, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRmvA1UAL5I, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5z-rKfYag, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9of99NOYRcw (matching the regex rule \byoutube\.com). 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. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections. 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) 23:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move of Mark McCrindle
Hello, I have contested your request to move Mark McCrindle to Mark McCrindle (social researcher) on the grounds that parenthetical disambiguations are only used where there is more than one article with the same name. If you still believe the page should be moved, please relist it at WP:RM as a "potentially controversial move". Thanks! &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 16:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Concerns re references in article 'Mark McCrindle'
I have responded to the concerns about the article 'Mark McCrindle' re third party references and secondary sources. I am wondering, when will the boxes at the top of the page, asking for reliable references, come down? EmilyW (talk) 04:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If you have corrected the issues, you may remove the boxes yourself. They are not automatically removed. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 05:05, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

April 2011
Hello EmilyW. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mark McCrindle, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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Nomination of Mark McCrindle for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mark McCrindle is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Question re Mark McCrindle page
I have just now reviewed my talk page and discovered that my page ‘Mark McCrindle’ was deleted on the grounds of lack of independent sources and conflict of interest. I have since read the recommended pages on COI and discovered that I should have disclosed that I was a staff member of McCrindle. I also read that as someone affiliated with McCrindle it is preferable that I do not write his biography. Even so, I think Mark McCrindle is deserving of a page on Wiki and I am confident I can gather more reliable sources. If so, what is the best way to go about creating a new Mark McCrindle page? Suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you in advance. --EmilyW (talk)
 * Read Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. Then read WP:Your first article, WP:Notability and WP:Notability (people). Then make a draft article in your user space - see Help:Userspace draft for how to do that. Ask for comments, if you like, at WP:Requests for feedback. When you are ready, approach user, the administrator who closed the deletion discussion at Articles for deletion/Mark McCrindle, for permission to post the article. If he does not agree, you can appeal at WP:Deletion review. At every stage, disclose your interest.


 * Take great care to avoid anything in the least promotional - Wikipedia is extremely resistant to being used for any kind of promotion, which is one reason why COI editing is discouraged. Read WP:WORDS. Put out of your mind any thought that you are writing for McCrindle or on his behalf: what you write should be an outside view, neutral facts verified by reliable sources. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:59, 7 July 2011 (UTC)