User talk:Transglider

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November 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 Issey Ogata 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://rmaht.typepad.com/blog/2010/11/the-man-of-300-faces.html. 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) 04:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for the notification. Although the external link I proposed is a blog entry of mine, it showcases an article I wrote on Mr. Issey Ogata for the Japan Times Weekly. For this reason, I felt wikipedia readers interested in Mr. Ogata would find the article helpful as a supplemental source of information. Also, It is my hope that the entry be considered a contribution from a "reliable source," as per your guidelines. Just for your reference, my professional profile is available for your perusal at the following address.

www.mediabistro.com/rajmahtani

Please rest assured I am ready to comply fully with your policies and guidelines. As an alternative, would it be all right to add some content from my article to the main body of the Wikipedia entry and link to my piece as a reference? Please advise. Thank you.

Transglider (talk) 08:31, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi the trouble is that blogs aren't considered reliable sources. If you can find the Japan Times Weekly article online, then I'd suggest you add that to the article directly. Adding links to your own blog is generally frowned-upon. Feel free to put the helpme template back up if you need more help! Best, HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   13:02, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

helpme Thank you for your guidance. I see the light now. I am going to check with Japan Times to see if they have my article stored in their online archives. If they do, I'll just add it as advised, or at least part of it and link to it at Japan Times as a reference source. Please excuse me for not having grasped the guidelines properly. I see now how the policy is a good one that helps Wikipedia safely maintain its neutrality, and be extension, its integrity. Thank you, once again. Transglider (talk) 14:37, 27 November 2010 (UTC)