User talk:Gideonfinkshapiro

Welcome!
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! GermanJoe (talk) 20:30, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Referencing your own research
Hello Gideonfinkshapiro, thank you for your interest in Wikipedia and in improving architecture-related articles. However, I noticed that you added a lot of references to your own research (assuming from your username). While contributions by topic experts are greatly appreciated, Wikipedia is no venue to popularize your own publications. Please make sure to read WP:CITESPAM and WP:COI for more information. When in doubt, it would be better to suggest your own articles as sources on the articles' talkpage and let other uninvolved editors discuss an eventual inclusion first. Or you could provide independent 3rd-party sources instead. I do hope that you will continue to contribute to more architecture-related articles, but you should try to avoid the excessive usage of your own articles and posts. Please feel free to ask me if you have any further questions. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 20:46, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Understood, thanks Gideonfinkshapiro (talk) 21:10, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Barbara J. Fields has been reverted. Your edit here to Barbara J. Fields 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=3cmxuw_yBME) 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) 20:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)