User talk:NeillRichardPotts

April 2020
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Hull General Cemetery, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 01:12, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Hull General Cemetery. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 01:30, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Reliable Source
Hello again.

Sorry to be a pain ... but what do you regard as reliable source? Is a newspaper article a reliable source, or a comment from the Friends? or if something is discovered of stagering importance but it is original research and nothing has yet been published ... is this not allowed please?

Many thanks

Neill
 * See WP:Identifying reliable sources and User:Ian.thomson/Guide. Also, you might want to check out User:Ian.thomson/Guide in the same guide. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:26, 18 April 2020 (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 Hull General Cemetery has been reverted. Your edit here to Hull General Cemetery 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 (https://www.facebook.com/messages/t/2290399451034895) 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) 10:04, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

COMPLETE REMOVAL OF REFERENCED & IN PUBLIC DOMAIN MATERIAL
Good morning

You have just removed huge chunks of what I put on Wikipedia about the Hull General Cemetery ... WHY? This is making contributing a complete waste of time.

You've removed references to the CWGC and link/reference to their official site ... WHY? The cemetery has War Dead which people don't know about and so I've included these and referenced/linked to the work of FoHGC which you've also removed. WHY? This is an educational and local authority approved and documented group

Can you explain just why you've removed the various articles please?

Kind regards

Neill
 * Posting messages on this page doesn't mean that anyone is going to read them. It is really only a happy coincidence that I saw your edits to this page on my watchlist.  This is explained in User:Ian.thomson/Guide, which I've already recommended.
 * As for your complaint, there's an above message from a robot explaining why your edits were undone. Since the bot only gives general reasons and not exact reasons, here are the explicit problems: you tried citing a private Facebook message that is only visible to your account.  You also failed to properly cite it, adding it as an external link rather than as a citation (this is what caught the bot's attention).  Beyond what the bot found, you also added material copyrighted by the Friends of Hull General Cemetery (the bottom of their "About Us" page says "© Friends of Hull General Cemetery," meaning it is not public domain) to the article, which would cause us to violate their copyright.  This also introduced the word "We" into the article, and Wikipedia articles don't use first person ("I" or "We") (or second person).
 * You are free to restore the non-copyrighted material. You must paraphrase the copyrighted material.  You should avoid adding external links (especially within the general text), except within references.
 * I strongly recommend you look over this guide I wrote for new users. You are still missing out on a lot of things that the guide covers, such properly signing your posts (it's literally four characters to get a hyperlinked and timestamped one like at the end of mine), finding sources, avoiding copyright infringement, and leaving messages where users can find them.  Ian.thomson (talk) 11:24, 18 April 2020 (UTC)