User talk:Ivanlm78

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rail line Kilometres by Country (February 4)
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EROS message 14:54, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

November 2019
Hello, I'm ~riley. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Syria because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. ~ riley  ( talk  ) 08:46, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, ~riley. thanks for the message and your help. So I don't repeat this mistake, can you confirm this is in reference to the external link datamun.com? Thanks in advance!

December 2019
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 12:22, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi MrOllie. I haven't seen anything in this user's contribution history that warrants the above warning. What exactly is your concern? Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 17:53, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Nearly 100% of his edits are additions of datamun.com, an unreliable source. - MrOllie (talk) 17:54, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


 * He's adding useful content along with links to datamun. I agree that datamun does not meet our criteria for being a reliable source, but adding good content with an unreliable source is an error that we can assume is made in good faith. IvanIM78, it's really great that you want to add this information to Wikipedia, but you should do so while citing the original sources of that information, e.g. the World Development Indicators or the OECD, rather than datamun.com. That way, readers can be verify the numbers. Does that make sense? Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 18:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Ivanlm78. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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 * I just realized how much stuff there is to read in all these links. Just read the first one or two links and you'll be fine. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 19:05, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Again, welcome! Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 18:27, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks so much Clayoquot, there is certainly a lot I need to read through, but I look forward to it.Ivanlm78 (talk) 11:44, 6 December 2019 (UTC)