User talk:Robin of the Hood

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November 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Eccleston Quarry has been reverted. Your edit here to Eccleston Quarry 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 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yudiving/6306971226/in/photostream) 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. an image 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 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) 20:41, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Sturgeon do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Your edit here to Sturgeon 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 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yudiving/6306971226/in/photostream) 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. an image 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 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) 20:48, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Linking images
Hi Robin. I'm sorry your efforts have been reverted by the bots, but I'll try to explain what happens. It is not possible to display an image from an external website directly on Wikipedia. All of the images that you see here have been uploaded to Wikpedia or to Commons (our media repository which is shared by all the Wikimedia projects). Unfortunately the images you were trying to insert are licensed on Flickr as CC BY-NC-SA, which is not quite free enough to upload use here because we have no restrictions on re-use of the content (even for commercial purposes) other than requiring attribution (CC-BY-SA).

It is possible to make links called external links but they are also subject to certain conditions and have to be placed in a section at the end of the article. Unfortunately contributors often link to copyright violations in that section (like many YouTube videos) so we have a bot that tries to remove links to the most problematical sites.

I'll replace the links in the two articles for you, as I believe they meet our requirements for external links. Apologies for the steep learning curve here. --RexxS (talk) 01:59, 3 November 2011 (UTC)