User talk:The Pocket Dog

February 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Darran Jordan has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/user/btrproductions, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53J4O0dHytY (matching the regex rule \byoutube\.com). 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 and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections. 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) 10:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, The Pocket Dog, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

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Wikifying "Darran Jordan"
Hello 'The Pocket Dog', welcome to Wikipedia I and another editor have started making necessary changes to this article, which you may loathe,(if I were you I would likely feel the same) but it needs doing. Please see this Wikipedia 'policy' WP:OWN if you are unaware of it. I have added lots of links to other Wikipedia articles, which is done by simply placing double square brackets around words like thus Darran Jordan. Please check the links as some may not go to the right people if the names are the same, ie. "illustrated by Brian Jordan and Marshall Browne" goes to an Australian writer, same guy?. 220.101.28.25 (talk) 19:20, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Darran Jordan


The article Darran Jordan has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Reads like the resume/promotion for a mainly self-published author. Sources provided are either primary sources or connected to the subject - no major independent or reliable third-party sources linked.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing  will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 17:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)