User talk:Jockscott

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August 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Simon Willis has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline 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. I removed the following link(s): http://simon-willis.blogspot.com/. 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) 14:38, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Simon Willis


The article Simon Willis has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Unsourced BLP with no evidence of notability. NB: There is another Simon Willis also of the BBC who has previously worked in BBC Radio 1 / Entertainment TV, this appears to be a different person"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 20:42, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Simon Willis
Hi @, thanks for your recent edits on Simon Willis and for cleaning up this article.

I wanted to make you aware of two things that you need to know for future Wikipedia editing:

1. Conflict of Interest Your edit history seems to show that you’ve only edited Simon Willis or pages relevant to the subject. This would seem to suggest there’s a possibility that you may have a conflict of interest within the subject (or may even be the subject himself!). There’s nothing wrong with this - but you must declare this on the relevant talk page - and certainly must not remove a COI template without speaking to other editors first. Have a read of WP:COI to familiarise yourself with what is and isn’t appropriate on Wikipedia.

2. Sourcing You’ve added your sources by adding the links within the text itself - have a read of WP:IC for how to do this as an inline citation instead. It’s best practice for all Wikipedia articles, keeps a log of when the source was accessed, and makes the article tidier. Also, you’ve used some sources which aren’t appropriate, for instance linking to the subject’s own writing on BBC News, which would count as a primary source. You should aim to use as many independent, reliable secondary sources as possible when sourcing your content.

Thanks for joining Wikipedia and happy editing! Cardiffbear88 (talk) 18:35, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Simon Willis for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Simon Willis is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Simon Willis until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 19:28, 7 March 2020 (UTC)