User talk:Woodski2012

September 2012
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Walter Wood (freestyle skier). Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you.

I am trying to write this entry up for my son Walter Wood and not myself. Mark Wood Woodski2012 (talk) 21:17, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Hello, Woodski2012. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Walter Wood (freestyle skier), you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 22:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate the information and I have exercised due diligence in regards to conflict of interest. I used what other ski athletes used as my template for the entry and exercised a fair and neutral point of view. The ski halfpipe athletes I refer to are teammates, David Wise and Torin Yater-Wallace.38.97.237.122 (talk) 20:38, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

November 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 Walter Wood (freestyle skier) has been reverted. Your edit here to Walter Wood (freestyle skier) 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDTW3vpIJo|) 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 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, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. 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) 19:35, 4 November 2012 (UTC)