User talk:FemaleVideographer

August 2021
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Green TV has been reverted. Your edit here to Green TV 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/user/GreenTV) 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. music or video) 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) 20:22, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

I looked to see if Green TV (which has been around since 1995) has a wiki page. It did not and went to some oddball night vision goggles that have nothing to do with Green TV. I wrote a brief bit on it with links to Green TV's social media. Eventually I will build on it because I am part of the Green TV crew. I am new to wiki and trying to figure out how it works and it isn't very easy. But to just delete everything I wrote and put that stupid redirect back is just bloody insane. Are you even looking at what Green TV is and how unrelated night vision goggles are?????! FemaleVideographer (talk) 20:04, 20 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Here are some comments relating to your question. I hope some or all of them may be helpful to you.


 * 1) The material you posted did not provide any references to reliable independent sources. We don't accept material just because someone who chooses to create a Wikipedia account says so: if we did, Wikipedia would rapidly fill up with a load of junk.
 * 2) The text you posted was heavily promotional in tone. It gave the impression that it was written by someone who thinks that what she was writing about is a really good thing, and wanted to persuade readers to hold the same opinion, but Wikipedia policy is that all content should be written from a neutral point of view. It should be impossible to tell from reading a Wikipedia article whether it was written by people who approve or disapprove of the topic they are writing about, or whether they actually have no personal opinion about it at all.
 * 3) Since you are personally involved in the subject you wrote about, you should read Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest. You will see that it strongly recommends against editing about a topic where you have such a personal involvement. Obviously you can read the whole guideline, but the main reason behind it is the fact that people writing on a topic where they are personally involved often find it difficult or impossible to write about it from a neutral point of view, even if they sincerely intend to do so.
 * 4) Unfortunately, there are many potential pitfalls for inexperienced editors trying to write new articles from scratch, and many who try to do so find it a frustrating experience. My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start.
 * 5) Wikipedia does not seek to have articles about just anything and everything. To be considered suitable to be the subject of an article, a topic has to satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. I have searched for evidence that "Green TV" satisfies those guidelines, and unfortunately I found none. You may be able to provide evidence that I haven't seen, but I very much doubt it, because my searches would almost certainly have turned up at least some evidence if there were any around.
 * If, despite those two pieces of advice, you decide you do wish to go straight into writing an article, I strongly recommend doing it through the process described at Articles for creation, which will enable you to submit a draft article for review by an experienced editor. That way you will get much more leeway for your attempts to be improved, rather than just deleted, if they are considered unsuitable.
 * 1) Bear in mind that almost everyone editing Wikipedia is doing so in good faith, trying to improve the encyclopaedia. If you have a disagreement with an editor you are much more likely to get their cooperation if you explain to them in a civil manner why you disagree, than if you use terms such as "stupid" and "bloody insane" when addressing them.
 * If you would like any clarification of any of those points please feel welcome to ask me. JBW (talk) 21:06, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Green TV, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   20:07, 20 August 2021 (UTC)