User talk:Katherine Erickson

December 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Vicksburg High School (Michigan) has been reverted. Your edit here to Vicksburg High School (Michigan) 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 (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vicksburg-Community-Schools/188304267573) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 07:41, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

VHS
Hi, Katherine! I wanted to give you a personal welcome to Wikipedia than you recieved above and ask you not to be discouraged by the fact that your first edit was reverted. So was mine! We do not allow Facebook to be used as a reference or as an external link because there is absolutely no verification process to its content. The Wikipedia community feels that the possible misinformation that can come from Facebook, in addition to its large advertising component ofset any possible gain from having it associated with our pages. In addition, an encyclopedia is supposed to take a long view of the subjects it covers, and Facebook is all about right now. Wikipedia isn't a newspaper. I created the VHS page. Altho I am not an alum, I have a long association with Vicksburg altho I no longer live there. If you want to help the article, it could use a history section and I am certain the references to write it are in the Vicksburg Library. If you can do the research I can help you with style and tech stuff. John from Idegon (talk) 08:04, 18 December 2014 (UTC)