User talk:Mkosciej

Please review policies on spam and COI
Hi, please take a moment to review our policies on WP:SPAM before inserting any more citations to Marc Kosciejew's blog. Given that your user name suggests a connection to him, you might also review our policies on conflict of interest. Just let me know if you have any questions, Khazar2 (talk) 23:17, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi - I'm unsure if I'm responding in the proper place? I'm still a wiki-novice. I conduct advanced research on various African subjects, some articles of which I thought, if appropriate to a statement, fact, or certain section of text and/or complementary to an existing list of references and/or appropriate for a section requiring a citation, I would include to help bolster the content of the particular pages. Perhaps I became over-zealous with it; once begun, I kept recollecting other research that I thought could help 'that page','that topic', etc., never even considering any COI or that, citing numerous entries within a short amount of time, would appear to be spam! Shall I remove those citations? Mkosciej (talk) 02:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep, no harm done. I do appreciate the efforts, and realize you did it in good faith. It's generally best not to add a whole slew of one person's work to Wikipedia, though; regardless of intention, it creates at least the appearance of promotion, and in many cases, those citations appeared a bit redundant. And if it is your own research, it complicates things since we're often poor judges of our own research (if we didn't think it was vital and groundbreaking, we wouldn't be doing it). What I'd suggest in the future would be to note the resource you wrote on an article's talk page; then neutral editors can judge its appropriateness and value for inclusion.
 * I hope this won't dissuade you from writing more generally, though--as I'm sure you've seen yourself, our Africa coverage can very much use the help! I hope you'll stick around, and if this is a long-term topic of interest to you, you might consider signing up at WP:CSB. Cheers, Khazar2 (talk) 02:13, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Certainly not! Next time I must not let myself get carried away. My excitement, thinking how these various citations might help out, got the better of my cool judgement. Of course, now I see how so many citations of one person's work (mine!), especially within a very narrow timeframe, might appear to be COI and/or spam. I'll admit, it is embarassing. Mkosciej (talk) 02:29, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries; there's no way you could have known Wiki-policy in advance. Thanks for understanding, and happy future editing. Khazar2 (talk) 02:44, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Shortly I will delete many of those over-zealous citations. I thought, this time, I better give some kind of "heads-up" so it doesn't appear as though anything strange or spam-ish is occuring on my end. Again, how embarassing that I'd get carried away!

Hi - I'm unsure if you're still receiving this "talk" or not? If so, I just went to remove that flurry of citations to discover they've already been deleted. Since they are gone, I suppose I just wanted to formally acknowledge my mistakes and willingly wanted to remove them.
 * Yep, I actually took them out myself before posting that note to you. But I do really appreciate your double-checking. Like I said earlier, I'll hope you'll stick around! Just drop a note on my talk page if you ever have any editing questions I can help with. Cheers, Khazar2 (talk) 12:35, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

August 2013
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Please refrain from making nonconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Donald Sutherland with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Amaury (talk) 05:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

I think I should delete this account because I have no idea or clue as to why my edits were considered "vandalism" and removed? I simply edited one section on recent developments into three new sections (2000s, 2010s, and The 2010 Vancouver Olympics) in order to make the section more clear and straightfoward. I also included a reference to a PBS documentary (on Queen Victoria) that Sutherland narrates, along with the citation. I included a Sutherland quote about his role on "The Hunger Games" with The Telegraph, that was also cited. Perhaps this final inclusion (the quote) could be considered too much or superluous information. Regarding the rest - cleaning up a section and including a new reference for one of his jobs (which, from what the rest of the source, appears to be what this entry is about: highlighting his acting and other professional work), I dont know why it's considered vandalism or something of the kind. Cheers.
 * I also have no idea why the bot is considering this vandalism. You should feel free to revert it. -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:18, 5 August 2013 (UTC)