User talk:StephanneWest

Posting my first message. West (talk) 17:15, 16 October 2011 (UTC)West

October 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Brad Willis (journalist) has been reverted. Your edit here to Brad Willis (journalist) 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.youtube.com/watch?v=UAMh-TtcXDY, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PA4Dmz9bIs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6t-iJ81Awg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1H_AEkJzCM) 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. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. 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) 00:41, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Going out on a limb
I'm going to go out on a limb here and presume that you are involved with the company Go West Design that created the user page User:GoWestDesign and has created the Brad Willis (journalist) article. Changing your name to reflect an individual rather than a company is a good start. However, even as an individual, you should not be using Wikipedia to promote any person or entity, or to manipulate anyone's public image. Wikipedia relies on factual content, verified by citations to reliable sources. If the reliable sources are not kind to a subject, it is not the aim of Wikipedia to clean up that image, only to faithfully report it. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:04, 7 November 2011 (UTC)