User talk:Selyobwoc

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Welcome from me, too
Welcome Cowboy Les. If you have any questions or need a hand with something, don't hesitate to ask. I have very little editing time nowadays, but if I can be of assistance I would love to. I also suggest finding articles that look good, and copying their layout and detail solutions. Cheers and hope to see more of you,  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  02:18, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I find it amazing that there is such little information on the Excalibur Automobile online as well as in Wiki. I have been trying to document the inception through demise of the company and everything in between. The greatest obstacle now is finding photos which are acceptable to Wiki. I have uploaded a few of my own, but Commons leaves a lot to be desired. People come to Wiki to find information, be it text or photos. I recently found that there is an Excalibur Facebook site where owners put their car photos and other information. It would be impossible to put all this in the Wiki article. So I created an external link to the site. To my shock a Wiki bot deleted it! I was told it is against Wiki guide lines. I could certainly understand a personal site may give rise to several questions. But here we are talking about a community site of Excalibur owners - the very people who would be looking for information on their cars and the factory. It appears that whomever created the bot did not thoroughly think the process through. The same was true for the external car club sites that I sited. It appears that American car clubs are perfectly OK to include, however foreign ones are not. I read the associated guide lines and again was shocked. Sure, I understand that not everyone can translate every foreign language, but guess what? This is the 21st century. Google has a translator that can translate any language into another language. And the bot deleted my Australian link. Hmmm, the last time I checked, the Australians spoke English!!! I do not mean to vent. On the contrary, I thought that Wiki was a worldwide Encyclopedia and as such would be over the moon to have editors add as much pertinent information as possible. How do I bring this to the attention of the people in charge of Wiki. I have read the section on disputes and find it extremely convoluted and ambiguous. Please tell me if this task is too difficult. If it is, I will be happy to delete all my entries and never bother with Wiki again.

A very frustrated newcomer to Wiki!!! 

August 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Excalibur (automobile) has been reverted. Your edit here to Excalibur (automobile) 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.facebook.com/pages/Excalibur-Cars/172755036079844) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 16:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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Copyright problem: Excalibur (automobile)
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