User talk:ThormodMorrisson

October 2013
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors&#32; according to your reverts at Runes. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. While edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, breaking the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you. Aoidh (talk) 23:25, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hello, ThormodMorrisson, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Yngvadottir (talk) 04:07, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hello,

I just had a message saying that my recent edits came into the category of advertising. I don't understand. My book is a genuine one and thoroughly researched, covering all the subjects to which I listed it. I don't see how this differs from the list of other authors' works in a similar vein. I just noticed also that I am being accused of being involved in an edit war with other editors, whatever that is. Any editing I have done involved no one else, I can assure you. One thing I had problems with (not being familiar with the editing tools) was getting the proper format, nothing else, and certainly not to the detriment of anyone else as far as I know. If I'd known it was going to be so problematic I might not have bothered.

Can you advise? Thanks. ThormodMorrisson (talk) 11:43, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

ThormodMorrisson (talk) 11:30, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikipedia. I have moved this down, because new contributions usually go at the bottom of talk pages, to keep the conversation in order.


 * Wikipedia is very resistant to being used for any kind of advertising or promotion, and adding links to your own book is considered spamming. Please read:
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 * The reference to edit-warring is because of your edits at Runes, where you repeated your edit after it was reverted. The way Wikipedia works is explained at WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle: if you consider that an edit would improve the encyclopedia, be BOLD and make it; but if it is then reverted, do not repeat it, but discuss it on the article talk page, and try to reach WP:Consensus with other users. If discussion fails to reach consensus, there are WP:Dispute resolution processes. Edit-warring is strongly discouraged, because it leaves articles in the state preferred by the most obstinate edit-warrior. JohnCD (talk) 12:00, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello,

Sorry if I caused any problems, but I am not the best with technology or edit/formatting tools. I had to get someone else to help with formatting my book, as it was beyond me. I was unaware I was even involved in an 'edit war', much less that I was affecting anybody else. I was just listing my work in what looked to me the easiest way, inserted alphabetically in the list. All this 'BOLD, revert, discuss stuff' is a bit beyond me. I did the edit again because I didn't get it right the first time. It seems however that I got the subsequent one wrong too. As this is all a bit complicated for me, I think I will just not bother anymore. Apologies to anybody I may have inconvenienced, but I was quite unaware of it.

Thormod.


 * Hi, Thormod,


 * I remember being new to Wikipedia and learning the ropes. First, an article's reference list is for sources used in creating the article, not a random list of books related to the article's topic.  That you were "just listing my work" makes it appear that you are only promoting your ebook.  That is not contributing the the encyclopedia.


 * To learn to format references, look at Referencing for beginners and watch the five minute videos. You'll be competent in less than 15 minutes.


 * I hope you stick around and contribute to the encycolpedia. Read through the links in the Welcome! above and you will quickly learn about Wikipedia and how to be a productive editor here.  Take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 16:17, 24 October 2013 (UTC)