User talk:Victoria Black

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However, for two reasons I have removed your edits to Wood Island Light and Biddeford Pool. The first is purely mechanical -- if you're going to make edits, you need to make them completely and not leave them for other editors to clean up. Ordinarily I might clean up one of your book cites and then suggest that you do the rest:
 * see cite book for a complete list of what could be included in this citation -- the publisher and ISBN number would be usual for a modern book. There are some neat tools which help writing cites -- I'd be happy to help you with them if you decide to do more work on Wikipedia.
 * see cite book for a complete list of what could be included in this citation -- the publisher and ISBN number would be usual for a modern book. There are some neat tools which help writing cites -- I'd be happy to help you with them if you decide to do more work on Wikipedia.

However, in this case I have removed your citations because they appear to violate Wikipedia's policy against advertising. In addition, I have to wonder if you have a conflict of interest -- while "Victoria Black" is not obviously Margo Alley, when a brand new editor makes edits that send readers to a commercial web site -- in this case Margo Alley's personal web page, I wonder if there's a connection between the two. The fact that neither of the books you cite are on Amazon further suggests that they are a personal project rather than useful references.

I am only one editor and my decision is not cast in stone. If you want to discuss it, you can make your comments below as I will automatically watch this page for changes. Just remember to sign your comments with four tildes ~ which will add your username and date to your comments. . . . Jim. . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 13:03, 9 January 2010 (UTC)