User talk:Greperry

December 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Henry David Thoreau has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam 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. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bblog(?:cu|fa|harbor|mybrain|post|savy|spot|townhall)?\.com\b' (link(s): http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, 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. 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) 19:29, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey! No one here means to give you a hard time but, inherently, blogspot.com or wordpress.com or those types of sites are excluded from this project, except in the case of extreme circumstances. If you haven't read the policy on external links, the question we have to ask is how much we can add to the article with any link. Relating to the link you are trying to add: Does it really add much? Considering we can add his journals to Wikisource (a sister of this project), the answer will be no. I also should point out (as the bot above did) that your attempts to keep pushing it are a violation of conflict of interest because I perceive your involvement in the site itself. You also might want to read WP:POINT. We're not discouraging you from taking part in this project, but the policies here are complicated and take some getting used to... and, especially articles like the one on Henry David Thoreau, lots of people are (thankfully) very protective. --Midnightdreary (talk) 00:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)