User talk:Thomas Taylor86

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March 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Children's literature has been reverted. Your edit here to Children's literature 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://childrensbookauthors.blogspot.com/p/my-book-titles.html) 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 blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). 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) 13:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

List of children's literature authors
I've removed the listing you made as it referred only to a disambiguation page. I suspect you may be referring to the first on the list there: Thomas Taylor (artist). You would need to include on the page ANY information that you want to include on the list, such as date of birth, and give a reference for the information. You may find it a bit tedious to make pages for more than, say, his best-known book. Another way to create a blue link is to refer to a subtitle on a page, e.g. The Biggest Splash, The Loudest Roar. (I realize that there is no such subtitle and the TT of the page may not have written those books.) A good page for a living author should include basic information such as date and place of birth, parents (occupations at least), siblings (numbers at least), schools, university, jobs etc. It's handy to have a list of book publications as well, with dates of first publication. The information needs to be referenced to a secondary source such as interview that's appeared in the press, however. If you are yourself the Thomas Taylor in question, I'd say it would be easier to get a friend to write the page for you. It's difficult to be dispassionate and encyclopaedic about oneself. With best wishes, Brian. Bmcln1 (talk) 14:17, 9 March 2012 (UTC)