User talk:Spatchette

February 2017
Hello, I'm Justeditingtoday. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Justeditingtoday (talk) 18:33, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi, spatchette here. I didn't realize that I shouldn't link to podcasts. I hope to make more changes to this page in the future. Spatchette (talk) 18:38, 22 February 2017 (UTC)spatchette


 * Mistakes happen. It's one thing to put things like that in external links (although you should probably familiarize yourself with WP:EL) but to do the sort of thing where you say "listeners can download podcasts here" that is too blatantly promotional. Putting external links in the body of articles is something that isn't done even without the promotional language. They should be references (as long as they are reliable sources) or external links. Justeditingtoday (talk) 18:40, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Cool thanks, I read the link you sent. I do research for my work so am finding these things really helpful. 21:17, 22 February 2017 (UTC)spatchette


 * If it interests you to dive deeper, WP:MOS covers the style guidelines and WP:GUIDELINES is a list of various guidelines. Most of these things you will pick up through editing (without fail, someone will step up and say "hey, you can't do that") but it can be made easier if you don't mind reading policy pages. I'm not gonna lie to you, I haven't read all of them and I doubt many people have. But they exist. Justeditingtoday (talk) 21:37, 22 February 2017 (UTC)