User talk:XLinkBot/Archive 3
SandboxHow do I place a written article in the sandbox? --Jazzitsax (talk) 18:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC) Michael
Spider locI just wanna know why my editing on the spider loc page was taking down all i wrote about were true facts that are on his website spiindastreets.com and interviews i heard. --CrookMusic (talk) 21:27, 30 June 2009 (UTC)CrookMusic
The bot just reverted my addition of links to the respective articles about these books on a wikia wiki about the universe they are set in. Are wikia links not allowed any more, or what? -- 77.188.222.71 (talk) 12:38, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Farrell Spence Wikipedia pageBy God this is complicated, I am sitting here with the artist uploading a bio and photo that I have permission to use from Farrell herself yet a WARNING message keeps popping up saying it reads like an advert and needs sourcing? In the photo upload we indicated who the permission was given from. What else do we need to provide?? All this info is also available on all her web sites. Davidoleary (talk) 19:04, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
QuestionI say this edit. Could you please refer me to the proper guideline? Debresser (talk) 08:52, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
example.com is not a spam linkYou might want to read example.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.62.127 (talk) 01:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
When I have time I will do some statistics, but I think really that the large majority of the reverts is OK as they do include example.com in an inappropriate place. Note that the bot notifies (does not warn) on first revert, and that then the safeguards will not revert again. I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC) Tipton Wikia linkHey, you sent me a message saying that you deleted my link. That was not spam, it was a reliable link. I need to keep it there. It aint spam. Thanks, bot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.179.244.115 (talk) 06:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
In Response to Codeblack EntertainmentThe external links that reference Codeblack are to reference Codeblack Entertainment. All companies have external links to their official websites. What is wrong with linking to Codeblack.com which is the corporate site for the company. Also while I have your attention I would like to know how to do an info box on the left side of the page which will show the company logo and other facts about the company. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Codeblack (talk • contribs) 23:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Help with my pageI have tried to enhance the piece on Greg Mort, living artist, but it seems to keep getting deleted. Can you review it -- I did source it. Susan Fifer Canby—Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan fifer canby (talk • contribs)
I added a link of historycal vidoe posted on Youtube. Bot removed it. What should I do?I added a link of historycal vidoe posted on Youtube. Bot removed it. What should I do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Contemplor (talk • contribs) 17:08, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Goapele Wikipedia pageRESPONSE: That's fine if you just reverted one link but were you the one who erased all the revisions and new content I provided for Goapele's page which came from 2 hours of meticulous research? Did you erase all the easily accessible Billboard chart action and corresponding reference links seen on every other musicians Wikipedia page but this one? I would really like to know because now her page is back to a myriad of discrepancies. You see "Chocolate" was never a single and changeitall.org doesn't exist. I thought the purpose of Wikipedia was to keep information as factual and consistent as possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pageofmusic2 (talk • contribs) 04:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
The City of London Migraine ClinicCould you explain why you removed the links and edits made to the The City of London Migraine Clinics page. These links provide access to a website and videos that provide very useful information regarding migraine. It is a non-profit charity and a leading national research and outpatient service. The youtube link is marked as going to youtube and I will now mark as a video external website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssim24 (talk • contribs) 08:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
WikisWell this bot removed the link I posted... as links to avoid' #12 says, thats why it got removed. I don't think is fair to not allow external wiki links (lost, heros, pokemon, and otheres have his wikis listed am sure at some point they got 0 articles, but they are listed on the wikipedia pages), if people does not know a wikipedia exist how it is going to grow bigger? If people read the wikipedia article and see that theres a wikipedia with information only related to that article they will go to that wiki and find more information and help it to grow. If its abouth spam...I could remove the link if the wikia site dies after a month or 2 oks?
Changeing links on QueerHi, the links to the Queer-videos on youtube are wrong. At least I get an "invalid video ID"-message when clicking the link. Without the '/' at the end the links work fine. However, the bot reverted my edit so now the links are wrong again. -.-
Re: July 2009 (Sonic X)That was actually me who added that YouTube video to the Sonic X article. I knew before about YouTube links not being allowed, but I thought it was due to official reasons. That video file was from 4Kids Entertainment's official channel, 4KidsTV. The thing is, 4Kids is adding uncut episodes of the Sonic X anime to their channel, and I needed a link as proof, as many otaku wish of the same thing and would unsurprisingly add things like that with no proof. Is there any alternative to this method? Matty-chan (talk) 19:04, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Pocket GodErm... Pocket God Forums exists, and it is VERY close with Pocket God, and I think you should put things back the way I made them, please. If one of the links breaks a rule, then I have no problem with you deleting it. Deleting the entire section was a little harsh :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.94.138.45 (talk) 23:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Edit sections that contain derogatory remarksNeed help. Please explain to me why I can't edit section that contains derogatory remarks about adult children without it reverting to original text. The text is offensive to me and to thousands of others because it has nothing to do with Senator Frist. Any help you can give me in understanding the procedures would be greatly appreciated. Paradise Daytona Beach (talk) 01:19, 27 July 2009 (UTC)Paradise Daytona Beach
Secrets of DroonPlease, why, exactly, was the link removed? Is Wikia not based off of Wikipedia? Ralnon (talk) 15:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Stacks on Deck Entertainment and othersAn editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated articles are Stacks on Deck Entertainment, Ramiele Malubay, Syesha Mercado. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to the relevant discussion pages: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stacks on Deck Entertainment for Stacks on Deck Entertainment, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ramiele Malubay for Ramiele Malubay, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syesha Mercado for Syesha Mercado. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Link on the Georgia Gwinnett College pageGuys -- I work at GGC and I'm trying to place a link on the page for a video the students made about GGC. Mind leaving the link on the page? It's not spam. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.43.124.236 (talk) 22:43, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Robert HerridgeThank you for the notification. The article [{[Robert Herridge]] is about a television producer. The links are to one representative portion of one edition of one show he produced. More significantly, it is one in which he is seen and heard. Having a subject's face and voice seen and heard is relevant to any biographical article of a person. Even if this were not so, it might be more helpful to simply remove those links, and not revert the entirety of over an hour of hard work that involved much writing and citation-seeking completely unrelated to those two links. -- 207.237.223.118 (talk) 03:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Vedio Hussein Alaahttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hussein+Alaa+hussain+%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86+%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1+%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86&search_type=&aq=f —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hussein333 (talk • contribs) 06:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Picture Playrt Hussein Alaa HUsseinhttp://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f357/alaa2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hussein333 (talk • contribs) 06:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Re: Rachael Stewart PageI got your message about the links. Sorry, I'm new to this. I treid to correct them today, but another admin delted the whole article last night. So time for a re-post I think. lol. Anyway, thanks x Iamtherealnakedclaire (talk) 10:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Book Link Disappearing????Why is my book link disappearing on the Olive Borden Wikipedia page? I've added it a half dozen times this weekend and it's deleted whenever I check back. Is there a user that's doing this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Borden My book's link: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4795-4 Help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mvozus1 (talk • contribs) 06:09, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hero Quest siteWhy the site http://heroquestbaker.altervista.org/indexenglish.htm, that has the permission of Hasbro, the publisher of this game, has been removed from the Hero Quest page of Wikipedia while the site http://members.quicknet.nl/lm.broers/download.htm, that is ILLEGAL for Hasbro, remains in Hero Quest page ? I don't understand —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.5.135.81 (talk) 12:27, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Photographer & photographyI write a blog mostly about photography & photographers. Sometimes other things as well; food, fashion, you name it. A bit of wandering & a bit of musing. You can see it at: http://styrous.blogspot.com/ I also have a website: http://styrous.org Enjoy, Styrous® —Preceding unsigned comment added by Styrous (talk • contribs) 02:05, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
U.S.S. Clamour at Wiki and USS-Clamour.blogspot.comI am the creator of the weblog: USS-Clamour.blogspot.com. All the material at that weblog is NOT IN COPYRIGHT and is released into the public domain, in perpetuity. I'm not good enough at wikipedia work, e.g., entries, links, etc. to keep up with this. If you don't want my link, you don't have to have it, but why didn't you ask me before you make me do this work OVER?Mark Preston (talk) 20:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Cal Cunningham pageYou were right. I apologize for the unusable external link. I missed that section in the guidelines. Thank you. Corndogg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Corndogg (talk • contribs) 16:20, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
VideoI fail to see how my link was not complying with the Wikipedia link-posting guidelines. The video it linked to was not offensive, it was simply a video (Which were stills of images) with music attached. (Which could not be offensive seeing as how there are no lyrics to the song.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.205.174 (talk) 08:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Strange revertCould you take a look at this edit? Was the removal of every links, including categories and the proper use of Wiki-standard templates for imdb and twitter, appropriate? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 21:23, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Official twitter sites?This bot seems to be jumping down the throat of a new user for adding external links to the official twitter page of Bob Evans Restaurants. Is adding links to an official twitter/facebook/etc page? I should also note that the bot reverted a bunch of non-link related edits by the new user, too. youngamerican (wtf?) 19:15, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Including reverted URLs in edit summaryIs there a reason why you include the URLs in the edit summary when the bot reverts their inclusion? When links are added that are inappropriate for the article (e.g. a porn site linked from an article related to naturism) or are spammy, then I think that immortalising the url in the edit summary is often giving unnecessary prominence to the link. If people want to know what the link was, they can look at the diff. Thryduulf (talk) 22:48, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Carlos Roberto 24 didnt make vandalizeHello well i want to said u that i have one problem with links in pages so can you help me please thanks for all Thanks. Carlos Roberto 24 (wtf?) 20:43, 8 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlos Roberto 24 (talk • contribs) cardassiaprimera.com.arPlease meta blacklist this site, many iw spam... Gonioul (talk) 00:48, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Upload PicturesHi There Can you perhaps upload images to the wikipedia database, so that I can add them to the page I'm creating. I've made several contributions to pages in Wiki, but I still don't have auto-confirmed status, and thus can't upload the pictures myself. Can you perhaps give me the rights to upload images? Thanks. Louis Louis.manuel (talk) 18:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
helpmeI was adding some external references on the page about Shiftboard and the bot keeps removing them. These are references to a New York Times article, a PC World article, etc. How are those any different than the Seattle Times article that was allowed earlier? Thanks Q4sales (talk) 21:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)Q4Sales
Don't pick on old ladies who make new careers for themselvesI am irene brodsky, a 62 year old woman who has a new career as a writer and can't imaging why anyone should complain that I am self-published and many of the things I put on my page is missing. have people been removing info from my page? and why? I am a teacher of poetry, graduated from college at age 60, made a new career for myself and never speak badly about anyone else. I have tried to add new things to my page and they disappear after I try. Please explain. I have many sites i would like to enter again. Also i would like to add all the libraries who cataloged my books, and the journal I am in. can you help? no one should pick on a 62 years old lady. sincerely irene brodsky Socrates 1 x 2 Teacher at Brooklyn College Author of Poetry Unplugged (Outskirts Press)Denver, Colorado and Silly Kitty (Shared-Books Ltd. Press)British Columbia, Canada member of the united Federation of teachers Brooklyn College Alumni Writers in the Sky Newspaper Institute for Retired Persons in Pursuit of Education Teacher Retirement System of n.y. Cambridge whos who Crisis Chronicles online library My poetry book is listed on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Abe Books, Doylestown Books, Targets, Flipkart, Ingrams Books, Baker & Taylor, etc. My Silly Kitty is an e-book published on Sharing-Books Online Library to Promote Literacy for children all over the World. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socrates1x2 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Consider using tags instead of bot-based reversionI think XLinkBot pre-dates Wikipedia:Tags but now that Tags are supported, perhaps XLinkBot can retire from the business of looking for YouTube links, and instead introduce a YouTube tag for edits. At a minimum, it should differentiate between their use as references and their use as external links, and only revert the latter. Take a look at this XLinkBot reversion and tell me if you agree that the changes I made to Rerun van Pelt warranted reversion. 72.244.201.210 (talk) 07:51, 12 August 2009 (UTC).
Why can't I add a photo??Hi, I am a new member and I want to add a photo in the documents which doesn't have photos. How can I be an autoconfirmed user? I need some help - Bsbfan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bsbfan (talk • contribs) 11:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
August 2009 (Mickey Neher)Why have you removed links and changed some parts of the article? User:Multi-AC —Preceding undated comment added 05:54, 14 August 2009 (UTC).
XLinkBot removed the link to my Facebook Fanclub GroupI added a link to my Facebook Fanclub Group to the biographical wikipage that is about me, and XLinkBot removed it automatically. Since the Facebook fanclub is acting as my official online fanclub, I need it to stay. Please advise! My name is Basil Shaaban. Thank you! Basil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Basilshaaban (talk • contribs) 18:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
new userAs a new user it's difficult for me to know where to go for help. Wikipedia information pages are so long and complicated. Every page I've ever looked at on Wiki has links and when I read the rules, from what I understood, it said that just about any links could be added including youtube, as long as they were relevant and useful. Although your page says this isn't really a place for complaints, I don't know where to go to get help. I emailed a mediator but received no response. There's no way I will personally communicate with the incredibly rude person who told me to 'stop spamming or you will be banned!!!' I've never spammed in my life. I received no welcome from this person after I added links (I'm a brand new user), just a couple of complicated, long bot messages saying 'don't add this link,' but it removed all of my links. When I tried to add all of my links again, except for the ones mentioned on the complicated bot message, I got a terribly rude warning 'you will be banned' from the person. I feel I've been abused by this person and it is because the way Wiki has been set up, that I've been abused by a total stranger. I wouldn't allow anyone in 'real life' to 'talk' to me that way and this site allows self-important, unfriendly people, so-called 'editors' to talk to others anyway they like. Wiki needs a some basic changes. If a person has a complaint, it should be easy to find out where to go to address the problem. No editor shoud be allowed to be rude, that's incredible. First, as this was my first addition to a page and I was a new user, I should have gotten a message that said thank-you new user for trying to contribute. Then it should have benn explained to me that all of my links were bad, if they were, not just one or two. Then I wouldn't have tried to keep adding the others. That would've kept me from getting warnings (which I didn't even see right away) and a horribly unfriendly message from some person, saying stop spamming and I'm about to be banned! There's no excuse for rudeness on any website. That person shouldn't be editing, no one should be, who's unfriendly! Because I've been so abused, I certainly won't ever try to post ever again to Wiki and when this has been resolved and the editor who was so rude has been told to be very friendly or be banned from editing, I'll remove my account and never visit Wikipedia again. (Wildmint (talk) 06:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC))
fix the bot script for Copyviocore template using link edit.--Rwlofld (talk) 10:18, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Minor grouseI have only one issue with the reversion of 15 Aug on “D. C. Stephenson”. Specifically, the edit summary changed all the URL characters to lower-case. Now, we really want the URL accurately reported, so that human editors can follow it. Even when XLinkBot is quite right to delete the link, a human editor following that link might be able to use it to find a “reliable source” (if, for example, the page transcribed the content of a “reliable source”). And XLinkBot might have gone awry, but a human editor might not discover this if the URL is transformed and a 404 error results. —SlamDiego←T 12:01, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
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