User talk:Markthebikefan

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Hello, Markthebikefan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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December 2019
Hello, I'm Dennis Bratland. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Triumph Motorcycles Ltd have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Dennis Bratland (talk) 21:22, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * When Triumph buys ads, prints ads, buys product placement in movies, pays people to ride their motorcycles, etc., it's not inherently worth mentioning. It's safe to assume that companies everywhere advertise. You need to cite an independent third party source that explains why a given example of Triumph's marketing and promotion are particularly worthy of attention. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 21:25, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dennis Bratland (talk) 08:13, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Marking edits as 'minor'
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Any change which alters the way the prose is perceived (read and understood) is not a minor edit. It is important for a new-ish user to learn this early on. Here are examples from your editing history - the second is perhaps borderline, but has nonetheless removed text: 22 May 2019, 19 June 2019, 5 November 2019, 6 November 2019. The Wikipedia advice is that if anyone is unsure whether a change should be marked as minor, then leave it unmarked. I am in the process of considering your edits which amount to a single purpose account - nothing necessarily wrong with that (can be referred to as the 'I'm going to write about my bike' syndrome) but often will attract a greater depth of scrutiny. I will reply at Talk:Triumph Motorcycles Ltd later. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 13:36, 14 December 2019 (UTC)