User talk:Shariwelsh

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Hello, Shariwelsh, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Ealdgyth - Talk 02:04, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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April 2011
I've reverted your additions to Mustang, Wild horse, and Mustang (horse) as they were obviously a copy-paste of information from another website or from another copyrighted source. Wikipedia welcomes contributions, but not copyright violations, which copy-pasting information from another site is. Please read the links above to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia! Ealdgyth - Talk 02:05, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * And I have again reverted your additions to Mustang (horse). They are obviously copied and pasted from other sources, which is not acceptable in Wikipedia. Please read the links that Ealdgyth provided above, as well as WP:COPYVIO, for more information. If you wish more information to be included in the Mustang article, please take your sources to the talk page. Also, please note Wikipedia's rule against more than three reversions in a 24 hour period. Please let me know if you have any questions, Dana boomer (talk) 02:25, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mustang (horse) has been reverted. Your edit here to Mustang (horse) 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.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148411985171640, http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=209210&id=100000171522583&ref=fbx_album) 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) 02:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Shari, please stop and take your sources and discussion to the talk page of the article, located at Talk:Mustang (horse). Continually reverting multiple editors and a bot is not a good way to begin editing on Wikipedia. I understand that you strongly believe in your position, but you need to discuss with other editors, or you will end up being blocked from editing. Again, please let me know if you have any questions. Dana boomer (talk) 02:42, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Mustang (horse), without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Reply to your post on my page
For now, I have reverted your edits to my talk page, but am replying here to let you know why. They are an obvious copy of several sources, including journal and news articles. This copying is very much NOT ALLOWED by Wikipedia guidelines, as by hosting this content we are violating the copyright of the organizations that initially printed this material. Wikipedia welcomes your contributions, but they need to be made in collaboration with other editors, and they must not include copyright violations - they need to be put into your own words and properly sourced to reliable sources. Facebook is not a reliable source, and most self-published sources are not either, unless they are written/published by an expert in the field (as shown by authorship in peer reviewed publications, university positions, etc). Unfortunately, the issue that you are trying to introduce to the Mustang article and others is one that has been hashed out before. Although you are correct that there is incontrovertible proof that versions of the horse existed in North American, then died out, the theory that they are then a native species and should be called "wild" instead of "feral" is not one that enjoys such widespread approval. If you check the previous discussion on the Mustang talk page, you will see that this discussion has been had many times before, and has resulted in a passage being added into the article in the Ancestry section detailing this controversy. At this point, the majority of scholars hold that they are "feral", not "wild", and so Wikipedia must show that as the prevailing view. Opinions do not matter. Again, please let me know if you have any questions, but please do not post copyright violations to my talk page or any other page on Wikipedia - they will be reverted. Dana boomer (talk) 12:37, 6 April 2011 (UTC) (edited 13:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC))