User talk:Minnesotacollegeboy

February 2010
Hi! I have noticed your recent contributions. It's not particularly helpful to link to years, as they do not add much context to an article.

Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you like it here. MKoltnow 18:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello. How should I list the LGBT history? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Minnesotacollegeboy (talk • contribs)

It's all good, just don't put the square brackets around the years. Square brackets make an internal wiki-link. That's great for a term you want people to be able to link to. But being able to link to 1978, for instance, does not add any context to an article, and should be avoided. Oh, and when you write on talk pages, uses four tildes (~) to sign/datestamp your name so people know who said what. MKoltnow 19:23, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Um, how do I make tildes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Minnesotacollegeboy (talk • contribs)

It's located (on a standard US keyboard) in the upper-left corner. But an easier way to sign your comments is to use the little button on the editing screen with a picture of a signature. It's next to the button with a W inside a red circle-slash. That will insert four tildes at the end of your comment also. The four tildes are automagically converted by the wiki software into your name and a timestamp. MKoltnow 19:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, si.Minnesotacollegeboy (talk) 19:54, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page LGBT rights in Argentina 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://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2007/11/argentina-lgbt-youth-protest-volunteer.html (matching the regex rule \bblog(?:cu|fa|harbor|mybrain|post|savy|spot|townhall)?\.com\b). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, 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) 20:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

LGBT rights in Argentina
Don't worry I've restored your edits to LGBT rights in Argentina. Thanks for your contributions. MaesterTonberry (talk) 14:38, 3 February 2010 (UTC)