User talk:Philoelpistina

July 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Robin Hood has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam 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. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\byoutube\.com' (link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dd3L7VcDo). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image or a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. 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 thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators 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).

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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Please keep this page for communication between you and other editors. User:Philoelpistina is for your bio details. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 00:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of interest issues
Hello. Have just seen your AfD comments asking for guidance about "conflict of interest" issues. This isn't about whether the writer is making money, it's simply about having a biased connection to the subject, however slight. You can read more about Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy here.

If a record company set up a page for a band they'd signed, then that would also be a conflict of interest. A fan creating a page about their favourite band is fine, though - they wouldn't be speaking from any authority, and they'd be sourcing all claims from reliable, printed sources. If there was any dispute about the truth of a claim, it would be fought out over the sources, rather than the unverifiable "well, I spoke to the singer this morning and he says it was 1997, not 1996" that it'd be tempting to fall back on if they had a direct line to the band.

One other thing you should be aware of - if you want to cut-and-paste paragraphs from your own website into Wikipedia, you must add a permanent note to your site making it completely clear that you have released the text under the GNU Free Documentation Licence (or simply released it into the public domain). It's important that all text entered into Wikipedia is either written from scratch, or taken from an explicitly public-domain/GFDL source. --McGeddon (talk) 09:10, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * As I say, "conflict of interest" has nothing to do with pricelists or advertising or commercial gain; it's just about editing an article which you have a biased personal connection to. WP:COI doesn't outright ban you from editing Rotherham's article, it just encourages you to exercise "great caution" when doing so - you should be extremely careful about adding anything that can't be sourced, anything which gives a biased opinion, or anything which has an inappropriately familar tone (sentences like "Tony also loves martial arts" need to be rewritten for an encyclopaedia). --McGeddon (talk) 13:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Right well thanks for clarifying, I have looked it over and hope the 'familiar' tone is gone, even though the things he loves are common knowledge. Philoelpistina (talk) 16:26, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Permissible references
References from newspapers or the BBC are fine. Visit Template:Cite news, copy the template, and paste a copy of the template into the references section for each reference you are adding. Links to YouTube are not permitted. One or two external links to the person's own website are also permitted. Also, remember that there is also a Dutch-language Wiikipedia at http://nl.wikipedia.org/ which you may want to contribute to as well. --Eastmain (talk) 16:07, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Six week trip and photos
I hope your trip goes well. Remember that Wikipedia always needs photos to accompany articles on notable topics. Perhaps you'll see something on your trip worth photographing for Wikipedia. Good luck. --Eastmain (talk) 20:35, 17 July 2008 (UTC)