User talk:Jgroyal

July 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page List of shipwrecks do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. PTJoshua (talk) 20:14, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to List of archaeologists. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. PTJoshua (talk) 20:18, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Attempt to help
Hi Jgroyal, and welcome to Wikipedia. It may seem like a bit of a crazy place when you start contributing, because we have hundreds of conventions and agreed ways of working that you're not aware of. I can see that you're trying to add information to our encyclopedia, and that's a good thing. However, the way you're doing it is not by adding the information directly, but by adding links to an external site, and we just don't build our encyclopedia like that. It's obvious from your edit history that you have an interest in the RPM Nautical Foundation, so when you add links to their website into four other articles, it gives the impression that you're promoting the site through Wikipedia, and that's why you're getting your edits reverted and complaints from other editors.

Now we both know that you're mainly interested in adding information to articles about marine archaeology, not in promoting another site. But you will need to understand how to avoid giving the wrong impression. So would you please read the page called WP:External Links and try to see the ways in which we deploy links to external sites here, as well as what makes an external link acceptable or not.

When you add content, we normally expect you to cite the source you used for that information using WP:References. For example in this edit, you've made external links in the body of the text, but you should have added text and cited it like this: I know that's a lot of things to learn just to start editing, and normally you won't be expected to grasp all of this at once, but you added 10 external links to the same site and it looked like WP:Spam. So you will either have to add a couple of entries and wait for somebody else to convert the external links into references, or learn how to do that yourself, or run the risk that your efforts get reverted because of the appearance that loads of external links to the same site gives.
 * Levanzo I wreck, 4th cent CE, Sicily
 * Battle of Egadi Islands site, 241 BCE, Sicily

I sincerely hope that helps you to contribute to our encyclopedia productively and without conflict, and wish you happy editing! Cheers, --RexxS (talk) 21:20, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Problems with upload of File:Drroyalworking.jpg
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File:Drroyalworking.jpg
Sorry to bother you, but did you forget to add a license when you uploaded this? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC) Hello, I uploaded an image of myself taken during our field season. What copyright would that need? If there is more info, where do I enter it.


 * Click the Edit button on the file description page, below the box which adds the information you should add a note explaning that the image is released under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike licensing ( or some other 'free' license if you decide.)Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:47, 10 May 2014 (UTC)


 * That did it :) You edited the File Description page :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:53, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Drroyalworking.jpg


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File permission problem with File:Drroyalworking.jpg
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