User talk:Kc7txm

May 2019
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Commodore 16, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 06:43, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks CASSIOPEIA for helping me learn more about being constructive with citations Kc7txm (talk) 23:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Kc7txm, Greetings. You are most welcome. You could check out referencing for beginner for more info and instructions and use "horizontal" Template:Cite Web format if the sources are from the internet. Let me know if anything else I could help. cheers. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 03:04, 22 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks again CASSIOPEIA for more insight. I have used the horizontal format for web sources quite a bit. I have tried to stay inside my sphere of knowledge with edits and cleaning up dead links and missing citations. I'm still learning policies and procedures everyday. Thank you again. Kc7txm (talk) 00:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Kc7txm, You are welcome for anything I could help you to contribute constructively is time well spent. If the sources are from book then use the "horizontal" Template:Cite book. If the source are from Google books then once you find the info you wanted, just copy and paste the "URL" into Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books and click "load", the "ref tag" will appear. Copy the "reg tag"  and past it next to the texts on the associated article for inline citation. Btw, do WP:PING the editor, so they would receive a notification. You need to do that in all "talk pages" except the editor talk page.  Since this is your talk page and not mine, you need to ping me when you write to me. I knew of your message to me for your talk page is on my watchlist. You could set WP:WATCHLIST in any page (article, talk page, WP and etc) by clicking the "start" icon on the menu on to of the page. I have added the "ping tag" on your previous message to me (pls view it on "source editing" mode). Let me know if anything else I could help. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 04:17, 28 May 2019 (UTC)


 * once again, thanks for another good lesson. Ping is definitely one I will use, I'm adding tools to my toolbox every day now. Kc7txm (talk) 08:04, 28 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Kc7txm,Thank you for pinging me. well done . Check out Help:Wikitext, there are the common "Wiki mark up" we use on Wiki communication and editing which you will find beneficial. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 08:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Sourcing
Hi, thanks for your edits. Regarding your edits at Disk image, note that many sources you can find online aren't considered reliable sources on Wikipedia. For example blogs (unless they're from a recognized expert) and especially for product pages. Also, adding links to your own blog is considered spam. Also please explain this edit, the archived link works for me, what's your reason for removing it? Not that it's a particularly good source either. -- intgr [talk] 16:24, 30 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I was using an http 404 finder tool on the page to find dead links and when I loaded it the page on archive was not showing anything besides a connection error. I'm still learning how to do stuff on Wikipedia, I'll keep that in mind. I've mostly been involved with trying to improve articles in my areas of expertise (fixing language and grammar, finding dead links, sourcing missing citations). How did you link directly to the edit (that would really help me when I'm trying to engage with people in the article Talk pages as I have had to over explain where items are on the page / edits)? Obviously I see it's throwing the &diff=prev&oldid=899440327&diffmode=source parameter at the end of the link but where can I go to generate that or find that so I can link it to other people link you have done here ?


 * I went through and thoroughly read Wikipedia:Reliable sources as you suggested after you noted  "spammy page about one particular product" on the reverted citation, thank you for the lesson on it. I am not sure what is wrong with | https://www.disk-image.com/image_types.htm (About Disk Image Types) as a citation about  sector-by-sector disk copying. I do understand that the citation is on a domain from a commercial product (well sort of, it's a freeware application, I did not realize this at the time, but I do see it now). Does that matter since it's part of the user guide that was cited and it thoroughly explains all the different type of disk image backups (reading deeper into  Wikipedia:Reliable sources and spam it seems it could be acceptable but it's kind of gray)? It is written in an academic manner explaining all the disk imaging types and it's not a sales page for their product. I should have looked a little deeper into the domain, I saw a good explanation about backup, raw and ISO imaging of a disk and thought it was enough. If you would like to give me some clarity on this topic feel free to as I would be receptive to understanding how to be a better editor. Thanks once again. Kc7txm (talk) 07:55, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing?
It is quite unusual in terms of normal editing to be seeing someone concentrating on a fringe website for references, and yet no one else in the wrold is doing so. Yet you seem to have such a focus with your addition of karlstechnology.com and thecomputerrepairguide.com (redirects to the former site). Your site addition at this point is 82 records; Top 10 domains added by Kc7txm: karlstechnology.com (36), thecomputerrepairguide.com (6), web.archive.org (5), cpushack.com (4), pcguide.com (4), onecardme.com (2), fflboss.com (2), davbucci.chez-alice.fr (1), books.google.com (1), eetimes.com (1).

Please read both Conflict of interest and Paid editing and ensure that you are complying with our policies. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:22, 10 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm not a paid editor, I just work in the IT space and I like the Wiki project and wikipedia use to be a good source of help for IT in the past but it's not any longer. There are loads of dead links, poorly written articles many of which are not up to the latest changes in our fast moving and quickly changing IT sector. I try to help out where I can especially when I am training new IT staff where I work. When they reference something during training that is poorly done or straight wrong from wikipedia, I try to fix it. Many of the issues with IT related items in wikipedia are stale references to older operating systems or changes that were made in the past but never updated within wikipedia. I try to fix what I can, when I can, but I'm not here to butt heads with anyone, I'm just a recreational editor that helps when I have time (which is rare, as you can see I haven't made an edit in 6 months). Thank you for doing your part also to keep wikipedia working and clean. Kc7txm (talk) 16:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)