User talk:RonMcCoy66

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September 2013
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Afton Station Packard Museum has been reverted. Your edit here to Afton Station Packard Museum 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://aftonstationblog-laurel.blogspot.com/) 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 blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's 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). 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) 23:08, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've reverted the 'bot and reinstated your edit. While WP:ELOFFICIAL does seem to prefer a link to the venue's main website to one to the official blog, the robot edit reposted an out-of-date version of the article from a year ago, when I'd first looked at this as a WP:AFC submission, which contained some factual errors. I've left a note to the 'bot creator expressing my concern with this particular edit.
 * Certainly we do need more people with a working knowledge of U.S. Route 66. We did have a project WikiProject U.S. Roads/U.S. Route 66 which has been quiet (or dead) lately and another WikiProject National Register of Historic Places which overlaps US66 a bit (as 230 US66 sites, places like Blue Swallow Motel or the Gold Dome, are on the historic register). At the moment, our US66 coverage is incomplete. We have a hundred or so buildings and structures on U.S. Route 66 and most of the individual towns, but sometimes an individual landmark is notable and has reliable sources which could be cited as the basis of an article were someone to get around to actually writing one. There's also a shortage of photos of the Mother Road as we need images which aren't copyrighted or are under a free licence. John's Modern Cabins will likely fall down before we get a picture of them, Boots Motel has an outdated image (the sign now says Boots Court as two sisters are fixing up the place) and many notable sites have no article at all.
 * It's embarrassing to see that we had an owner's name wrong for a year on Afton Station Packard Museum and just plain annoying that the 'bot put the wrong info back up. My apologies. K7L (talk) 23:50, 17 September 2013 (UTC)