User talk:Runhan Liu

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December 2023
Please stop. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. VViking Talk Edits 16:13, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Socking
Hello, Runhan Liu, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you.-- VViking Talk Edits 19:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I am not operating multiple accounts. I am just editing one part of the Wikipedia. Mcaughtrie (talk) 20:10, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I’m not sure if there’s been a confusion between different accounts? Mcaughtrie (talk) 20:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Spamming
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. VViking Talk Edits 19:59, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

University of Edinburgh assignment - Global Health Challenges Pg Online
Hi @Ponyo, @VViking and others - please be aware that recent edits to 1999 Vietnamese floods have been made by student editors on the University of Edinburgh's Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme where as part of their studies and research into man-made and natural disasters around the world, the Masters students are invited to work as part of a group online project to contribute 1,000-1,500 words to a stub article about a natural or man-made disaster that is currently short and could definitely be improved and expanded with verifiable information from reliable published secondary sources. The recent flurry of activity on this article is a result of a group of students all working towards each contributing their section towards the end of project deadline and the goal of contributing 1,000-1,500 words in their group. I attach a Dashboard link to their project and the list of student editors is available here also which includes @Runhan Liu, @Mcaughtrie @Alex J Underwood, @Sacamet and others. Alex has created their userpage the way I would have advised the students to create their userpages but some attending the Wikipedia training workshop asynchronously so may have missed this step. I have now asked them all to make sure they all create their userpages like User:Alex J Underwood to aid transparency and let any reviewing editors know they are new editors but 'good actors'. I taught them how to add internal links and external links but it appears I will need to reinforce the need to avoid adding external links to the main body of the article. I will ensure this is the case next time but please do offer the students constructive feedback where it makes sense to do so as they are just learning the ropes.

In order to avoid any such future misunderstandings, I will ask the course leaders to furnish with me a list of articles the groups will be working on so I can flag this on WikiProject talk pages ahead of time. I'll also make the point about avoiding 'edit reverts'/'edit warring' though I know this was done in good faith on their part and can vouch that they were just undertaking an assignment to help improve this article and Wikipedia in general. With that in mind, please can you unblock/unbar @Runhan Liu if their edit behaviour was deemed disruptive or seemed in anyway like 'socking' as it was undoubtedly just a newbie misunderstanding more than deliberate. Also, please can the 1999 Vietnamese floods page be removed from semi-protected status so that the final student can add their section as the assignment is due to finish this week I believe. Any further comments, please let me know as happy to improve things to avoid any issues for either side in any future iterations to ensure everyone has a positive outcome. Stinglehammer (talk) 18:34, 2 December 2023 (UTC)