User talk:Michael Cavlan

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April 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2012 has been reverted. Your edit here to United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2012 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 (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Michael-Cavlan-for-for-US-Senate-2012/122110937819816Michael) 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) 15:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Michael, I see you've had several edits reverted on the Minnesota senate election page. I admire your passion for your campaign, but I have to say -- Wikipedia is not the place to fight these battles. Wikipedia aims to cover things in proportion to their coverage in independent sources. If you want to get Wikipedia coverage, generate coverage from news media etc., that is the best place to put your efforts. If you'd like to put your energy into generating a free educational resource to benefit people all over the world, Wikipedia is the right place -- but I'd recommend working on articles unrelated to your senate campaign. -Pete (talk) 08:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Reversion warning
Hi Michael, it's important that you observe Wikipedia's policies in your editing. If you continue to disregard policies like WP:V and WP:NPOV, and especially if you engage in edit-warring, you will be blocked from editing. -Pete (talk) 19:35, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

October 2012
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Michael Cavlan, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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