User talk:Raven.Timish

April 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Merck toch hoe sterck has been reverted. Your edit here to Merck toch hoe sterck 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.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDnHcKey1o) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. music or video) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. 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) 11:57, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Your question on copyright
You posted a rather frustrated-sounding question at the Teahouse, which I'm rather pleased you immediately deleted. However, as one of the host of unpaid volunteers who give their time to help new editors like you, I thought I'd drop by and quickly explain to you that despite a song being many hundreds of years old, the group of musicians who made that recording probably hold the copyright in that recording. Whether it was legally uploaded to YouTube (i.e. with the musicians and the recording company's permission) is debatable and certainly unclear, and so encouraging others to visit links to potentially copyrighted content is actively discouraged here. Our automated bot was pointing out to you that it wasn't OK to link to copyrighted material, and I would additionally comment that you actually put the link and the inappropriate narrative comment about it in the wrong place anyway. You can read more on this issue of copyright at WP:COPYVIO. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:21, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
 * PS: I have just reverted your second good faith attempt to add this link to YouTube, as explained above and in my edit summary. Please don't try to reinsert it, but you may look for an alternative official recording on the musician's or recording company's own website, assuming there is one. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:32, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

(Reply by Raven Timish):

Dear Mr. Nick Moyes,

Thank you reacting so fast. That's wonderful ! If I violated any Wiki rules - or offended you, Sir, I humbly apoligize.. I know very well: "Nobody is perfect - and least of all me.." Point is I just wanted - and still want - to share this old, incredibly beautiful, Dutch song with you all. It was not (neither is) my purpose to break any rule/law. E.g. the last time I got a (traffic or other) fine is more than 25 (!!) years ago. I'm just an ancient Music loving old guy, wanting to share it - to make you folks happy too.. Music is my life - especially pipe organ and harpsichord Music (e.g. Bach, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, etc.) I hope you understand - and I think you do. Yes, I'm an emotional old guy - still I almost instantly realized my posting was completely over the top, so I deleted it. Thank you, Sir - I hope you are healthy, happy and prosperous. Blessed Be !

Yours most sincerely, Raven Timish

(Currently living in.. The Hague, Holland, Europe. Amazing little country it is - the Dutch are very nice people, I really like them and their impressive history too.)