User talk:HayesBob

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August 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Institute for Learning has been reverted. Your edit here to Institute for Learning 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 (http://www.facebook.com/groups/153789048010230/?notif_t=group_activity, http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-disagree-with-the-forced-68-membership-for-the-Institute-For-Learning/167307803316593) 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. an image 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. 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) 15:13, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Please refrain from mass deletion of text in articles
please refrain from deleting on mass substantial amounts of text on the pretext of ridding the article of uncited references. Such widescale alteration of the article should be discussed on the talk page first

Socialmedium (talk) 20:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Signing
Hello HayesBob,

When commenting on talk pages, please sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ) to add links to your user page, talk page and a time stamp. Thank you.  Mangwanani  (talk) 14:57, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

ACTA
Dear HayesBob Thanks for your additional reference in the ACTA article. You also added quite a lot of text, and I have taken the liberty of re-editing this. I should like to explain why. The short reason for this is that (i) it becomes unbalanced, since it gives a lot more information about the Bishop's view than ACTA's, (ii) it is verbose, since it includes quite a bit of redundant material (and what does self-styled mean in this context? - it was just a hasty put-down, since there is nothing wrong with anyone calling their group anything they wish). The longer reason is that some of the issues involved are potentially quite controversial and need to be treated with a lot of restraint if we're to keep a tone which everyone agrees is more or less objective; I've listened now to the radio interviews, and I think they went very badly – my guess is that neither Mr Walker nor the Bishop (who understandably sounded a little rattled by the tenor of some of the remarks) would want to say quite the same things again if they could have another go at it, so I think we should not make too much of the clash. Happy to discuss further. Deipnosophista (talk) 10:18, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
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We are not a link wall
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