User talk:RichardAB

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Hello, RichardAB, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Glastonbury Lake Village. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! &mdash; Rod talk 16:51, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Youtube video on Sweet Track
Hi, I noticed you had reverted my move of the link to a YouTube video from the lead section of the Sweet Track article to the external links section. Please take a look at Manual of Style/Lead section for what should be in the lead section of an article and also External links.&mdash; Rod talk 15:20, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sweet Track has been reverted. Your edit here to Sweet Track 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/playlist?list=PLJGgq9_om1eJ2LinZZE2MEgqfFMAEOzgm/) 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. a sound or video file) 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) 22:29, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Sweet Track
Hi -- I saw your note on Rod's page; I am glad to see a new editor interested in the Sweet Track article. Youtube links are discouraged but not absolutely forbidden; I'm travelling tomorrow but will take a look and see if it's something we can include. In the meantime, welcome to Wikipedia, and sorry it's not been entirely productive for your first few edits. If you have any questions you can post them here or on my talk page. I'll try to get back to you on the links you added in the next day or so. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:02, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Following up on this -- I've made some edits to Sweet Track to incorporate what you were adding. I changed two of the links (to Shapwick Heath and Museum of Somerset) to point to the relevant Wikipedia articles, rather than to external webpages -- generally we link within Wikipedia and only use external links in special cases.  The Youtube video is included in the list of external links at the bottom of the article, and I think is fine there.  I took out the Avalon Archaeology link because I don't think it adds much to the article -- we already have a picture of the replica lower down in the article.
 * All of this is subject to discussion, of course, if you disagree. Thanks for the edits, and I hope you'll keep contributing! Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 08:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)