User talk:Igrallert

April 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Kate Douglas Wiggin has been reverted. Your edit here to Kate Douglas Wiggin 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://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2015/04/samuel-bradley-wiggin.html) 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 blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), 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. 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) 14:59, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Links to cold-regions articles
Hi Igrallert, as an enthusiast about matters pertaining to cold regions, I appreciate your motives for adding links to the Rauner Library collection, pertaining to these matters. Unfortunately, your contributions appear not to meet the criteria for WP:ELYES, nor for WP:ELMAYBE, they appear to fail WP:LINKSTOAVOID: 1. Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. In other words, the site should not merely repeat information that is already or should be in the article. Links for future improvement of the page can be placed on the article's talk page. See refideas.

If you'd like to discuss further, I'll monitor this page. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 14:23, 3 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi I do not understand. Out collections are all original materials or photocopies of original materials primarily manuscripts, diaries, notes by researchers etc. How does that not fit into the guidelines for original material? The links just point the user to the finding aids of these resources on the subjects and nothing else. Please clarify. Thanks. IG


 * Hi IG. I appreciate the good intent of your efforts. However, your links don't point directly to an item that is pertinent to the article in question. Instead, they point to a portal for information on the subject. I can suggest using the Talk page of each article as a place to post such links, so that authors interested in improving the article can draw on them.


 * Bear in mind, however, that Reliable sources states that Wikipedia articles "should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". Furthermore, editors delving into source materials would be engaging in original research, which contravenes the notion of paraphrasing the work of others that are published in reliable sources.


 * (Note that in replying, it's good practice to indent with one or more hyphens ":", as I have done here.) Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 15:31, 8 April 2020 (UTC)