User talk:RoxyCar


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June 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page The Old City Sideshow has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline 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. I removed the following link(s): http://www.myspace.com/oldecitysideshow. 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) 20:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to The Old City Sideshow. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 21:06, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Olde City Sideshow
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Olde City Sideshow, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.oldecitysideshow.com/html/show.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 14:30, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

How does X work?
I'm trying to create a Wiki page for one of the most well-known Sideshows in the country. I am not putting any show dates, links to buy tickets or anything like that - yet Wiki keeps telling me that it is "blatant advertising".

Are there any words/phrases to avoid so as to not come off as advertising? RoxyCar (talk) 13:49, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The first thing you should avoid is blatantly copying the show's website to Wikipedia. Aside from being a copyright violation, the company's website is explicitly written to promote the company.  It will contain all sorts of flattering terms about the show that do nothing but entice people to come see it.  Writing an article in your own words, maintaining neutrality, providing verifiable facts; these are all ways to avoid having your articles deleted.  You should try reading "Your first article" before you attempt to create another article.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Olde City Sideshow
A tag has been placed on Olde City Sideshow, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC)