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no link was added. The link was already there 60.234.144.222 ( talk) 22:40, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm simply updating the list of lonelygirl15 episodes on the very extensive list of them (we're up to 410), so the deletion of the last six episodes that I added and provided links to like every other single episode was unnecessary. I put them back in, and unless you're planning to delete the whole article, the deletion of the episodes once again would be extremely contradictory to the rest of the entire article, seeing as how I am only providing updates to the article. Zombiejaci ( talk) 09:37, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
A link on the page Martin Lukes was deleted. The comment from Squelch Bot said in part ... "Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), they are not written by a recognised, reliable source or contain original research."
The last to me looks like a misunderstanding of the idea of No Original Research. Wikipedia is not meant to contain original research, but surely linked pages may contain original research.
Not sure this is really an issue for the page that is relevant here, but still, it looks like a misunderstanding here. -- 81.178.97.181 ( talk) 17:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
This shouldn't be up here. There are situations where it is 100% acceptable if not desirable to link to this site. For example, if a BLP's personal site is at blogspot.com. Lawrence § t/ e 14:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Before adding the external link, I reviewed the External Links policy and believe that the addition of the link adds an important and current information to the entry. Based on my review of the Wiki article and the variety of players and insights into the city of Portland, the link is extremely revelant and offers information that is not offered by the current Wiki entry (and is better added through use of the external link). Please revert the changes. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.41.55.3 ( talk) 23:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi SquelchBot,
Yes. It's my fault to use sources with ambiguous licenses. I'll be careful before citing any source from YouTube next time. Apologies for inconvenience.
Sincerely,
140.112.90.224, 2008-01-29 (Tue) 00:53 UST —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.115.2 ( talk) 00:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi SquelchBot, about the links from my article, Im sorry, I already extracted the external links, I didn't know that I couldn't put them all the times a wanted. But what is the problem with the external links from the two videos from youtube I posted??? Or those are ok?? because I've seen links from youtube' videos in wikipedia so I thought that was ok, and I just put two.
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CarolBkn" —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolBkn ( talk • contribs) 05:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Squelchbot, just a question here on why an external link was deleted.
According to Wikipedia's guidelines for external links, articles "should include links to Web pages outside Wikipedia if they are relevant. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to their reliability." In this case, what could be more relevant than an article listing what documents should and shouldn't be shredded? Especially given the fact that the external link that remains (for OfficeZone) is no less commercial than the one that was deleted. It looks like the deleted link contained original research and was in accordance with the rules.
Thanks... User:Market224 —Preceding comment was added at 13:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Okay, so how do you want me to add Jolie Justus' official blog as a State Senator, if I can't link to blogspot?? 205.167.180.130 ( talk) 20:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
When you told off User:Deana175 off for inserting links to multiple geocities documents at English Standard Version, I think you missed that he/she was simply reverting edits of mine. So I think the edits were in good faith. I've invited him/her to discuss the edits at Talk:English Standard Version. Peter Ballard ( talk) 23:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I have reverted your change to the Marguerite Perrin article-- you removed the link to her MySpace page. Since the link it to a page belonging to the SUBJECT of the article, it is a valid link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.251.45.216 ( talk) 01:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I only linked to a YouTube video because the article referred to it; I thought the article would look better with a link to an actual video rather than saying what the video's called and saying that one could find it on YouTube. I'm sorry! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.111.233 ( talk) 05:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I think http://krnloop.wordpress.com/ should be included in the external links. It provides translations of Korean entertainment news articles with a neutral point of view (and links to original Korean sources). Some people have been adding sites such AllKpop.com and other resources are either biased or do not provide enough information. I believe Krnloop should stay on the list since English news about Kpop is very limited. 75.15.86.252 ( talk) 06:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm a big fan of yours. Enigmaman ( talk) 18:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
moved to bot's userpage
Hallo, you deleted the external link I add. OK, it's a blog, but it's the only which issued the Themerson's experimental video Calling Mr.Smith. So I think we could leave this external link. Best, Marcocrotone —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcocrotone ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Themerson the blog http://mellart.blogspot.com/2008/01/calling-mr-smith.html isn't official page, ins't a famous blog, but it's the only blog which analize the short films Calling Mr. Smith! talk • contribs) 20:13, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, why was the link to a 1956 document not deemed acceptable? Thanks! Rocky2276 ( talk) 17:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at my edit here to see if this is valid or not? The link is to a video where Hans Keller (the subject of the article) interviews a band that was on a television show that he hosted in the 1960s. I looked at the guidelines and don't see how this is a violation of them, but could you check just to be sure? It was not an attempt at spam. You also erased my infobox, which am pretty sure is not spam. Cheers. 70.186.172.75 ( talk) 12:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Intel_8085&diff=188135564&oldid=188120245 which was reverted due to regex match of "geocities", while I do understand the reason for the regex (and could basically re-add the edit without said link), I feel that adding additional freeware resources to that article helps because, 1) the article deals with an electronic component that is frequently used all over the world by numerous universities in computer science and engineering courses to teach microprocessor and microcontroller design/architecture, thus it is highly likely that readers may be interested in freely available educational programs about said component (namely, microprocessor simulators), thus the encyclopedic value of the article is increased by such links (even though a couple of links are added), 2) the originally mentioned program 'gnusim8085' (while free and open source) is currently restricted to one single OS (namely, Linux) 3) however, an significant portion of computer users today is still using Win32-based OS, and 4) all added links refer to freeware programs, thus there is no commercial interest at all. Therefore, please reconsider the edits of the bot. Thank you!—Preceding unsigned comment added by Parallelized ( talk • contribs)
Your psycho-bot is removing inter-Wikipedia Links like:
The planet Earth's
temperature extreme records are:
See the reversions at
Planetary human habitability
198.163.53.10 (
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18:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
The 22nd Bomb Group was a very forward unit of the USAAF in World War 2. President Lyndon Johnson got a silver star for a 30 minute ride with the Group. In compiling historical material for the 22nd Bomb Group's entry, contributors are encouraged to provide historical sources. Three incredibly important sources have been discovered and added to the Wikipedia website: 1. a personal account of the first action seen by the Group: an attack on the Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Midway, by Lt James Muri. 2. a personal account of the first action seen by the Group in New Guinea 3. a video of a crash landing of a survivor from the mission that LBJ went on for the first 30 minutes (his flight turned back). These are important sources that get posted onto the internet ... and I scan the internet regularly for new, important material to add to the site. I don't understand the exclusion of these really important historical sources. I am the creator of this entry and have not logged in because I've lost my login set. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.124.102 ( talk) 23:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to say that in my opinion the bot is counter productive in the respect that it removes links to youtube for example, without apparently any forethought as to whether they are valid or not. If you do not want any links to some sites, why not simply blacklist them ? Jackaranga ( talk) 20:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I suggest that the 'installing glass tiles' ext link from the Dec 20 version of this page should be reinstated:
"Wikipedia articles should include links to Web pages outside Wikipedia if they are relevant. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to their reliability (such as reviews and interviews)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtbaldyred ( talk • contribs) 05:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am this IP, you reverting edits by Quickload, and now this user make a Copyright infringement, the new text is from here, sorry for my bad English. Greetings from Austria. -- 195.3.113.176 ( talk) 14:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
As stated on my talk page, I am the author of both texts in the wikipedia article (that I started) and the informative site referring to the Caracal pistol. Same for many other texts and pictures that can be found on both my sites and Wikipedia articles referring to historical firearms, mainly submachineguns like the Bergmann MP 18.1, the Colt 635, the Steyr MP 34 etc...
Edmond HUET ( talk) 13:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
As statet here [1] you did remove the Link to the YouTube Page were MB does show his OWN Videos. so please do insert this Link again. 194.76.29.2 ( talk) 10:26, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Please delete the file. I'm sorry for any trouble I have caused. Thank You, User:Cool-guy357
The limits of the semantic web are not set by the use of machines themselves and biological systems could be used to reach this goal, but as the logic that is being used to construct it does not contemplate the concept of time, since it is purely formal logic and metonymic lacks the metaphor, and that is what Gödel's theorems remark, the final tautology of each construction or metonymic language ( mathematical), which leads to inconsistencies. The construction of the Semantic Web is a undecidible problem.
This consistent logic is completely opposite to the logic that makes inconsistent use of time, inherent of human unconscious, but the use of time is built on the lack, not on positive things, it is based on denials and absences, and that is impossible to reflect on a machine because of the perceived lack of the required self-awareness is acquired with the absence.
The problem is we are trying to build an intelligent system to replace our way of thinking, at least in the information search, but the special nature of human mind is the use of time which lets human beings reach a conclusion, therefore does not exist in the human mind the halting problem or stop of calculation.
So all efforts faced toward semantic web are doomed to failure a priori if the aim is to extend our human way of thinking into machines, they lack the metaphorical speech, because only a mathematical construction, which will always be tautological and metonymic, and lacks the use of the time that is what leads to the conclusion or "stop".
As a demonstration of that, if you suppose it is possible to construct the semantic web, as a language with capabilities similar to human language, which has the use of time, should we face it as a theorem, we can prove it to be false with a counter example, and it is given in the particular case of the Turing machine and "the halting problem".
Rugby league in France
I understand very well what you say:
. official links of the French republic (government(s) or its institutions) are false,
. official documents of the French republic (the image provided by government(s) or its institutions ) are false,
. official infos provided by the French historians are false.
Consequently
. why want you this: "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable" ?
. why require you this: "Reference(s)" ?
. why want you this: "the writings have to be documented ?
—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
82.216.5.2 (
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12:38, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand what you said but governments, official institutions, Historians don't add on internet or in theirs books all documents they issue or find; you are obliged to do searches with the info they give and to do photocopies of the documents that you put after in a free image share service.
Moreover for a French who provides false official documents it is several months in prison and several thousands € of penalties, for a French state civil servant prison and penalties are huguely more important; where is my interest or of L. Bonnery's interest ? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
82.216.5.2 (
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13:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
1) I always give my sources (in references or links).
2) have you read above the consequences for providing false official documents (where is my interest) ?
I entered www.my-plasma-tv.com under External Links for Plasma TV's and it was rejected by XLinkBot with this reason "The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bblogspot\.com' (link(s): http://plasmatelevision42.blogspot.com/) ."
The my-plasma-tv does not link to a blog, forum or free web hosting service. It is a site dedicated to explaining how plasma tv's work, comparing them to LCD's, how to hang above a fireplace, how to hide the wires, affects of sunlight etc.
It is a current and up to date site as opposed to the link from 2004 (Plasma display panels: The colorful history of an Illinois technology by Jamie Hutchinson, Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni News, Winter 2002-2003).
Yes, there are adsense ads on it but who doesn't have those. Could this be a Bot Error? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wendi789 ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining what happened. I would still like to add http://www.my-plasma-tv.com to the Plasma TV page. I'm concerned that if I add it again I will get the same error and a "second warning". Could an administrator add this site in the External links section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wendi789 ( talk • contribs) 12:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I am not able to understand the reason behind reverting the update on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_QuickTest_Professional You can have an expert check for this website http://mercuryquicktestprofessional.blogspot.com This links gives some of the very practical solutions for beginners and advanced users of QTP. Your algorithm penalize any site hosted on blogspot...that in my opinion is insane. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.91.144.90 ( talk) 18:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Please leave the link to the googlepages weather link for this page. A useful service. Bellagio99 ( talk) 14:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I tried to add a link to http://slgames.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/alternatives-to-second-life-uber-edition/#more-340 I do think this adds value to the article. Please consider allowing this particular URL to that page. I understand that many blogs are unreliable but this particular article I think does add value. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.100.8 ( talk) 01:20, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently re-inserted some unique links that were deleted by a user who is bitter that his link (he couldn't wait to word it and post it in a backhanded way to try to further call Secretariat's greatness into question) with Secretariat losing in the 1973 Wood Memorial was deleted; his continued denigration of the horse in his previous "correcting" posts spells him out as a troublemaker. This user has an ax to grind with anyone who enjoys Secretariat and his accomplishments, he seems to detest Secretariat because he thinks he is overrated. After he deleted said links, he has NOT deleted any other YouTube horse racing links, ANYWHERE on Wikipedia. That is MOST peculiar, and telling.
All I ask therefore is that ALL automated BOTS on Wikipedia are THOROUGH in their deletion of YouTube links by scanning for and deleting CURRENT links as well, not just deleting links via a more stringent screening of illegal YouTube links added in the future. To not do so is unethical; Wikipedia's own words: "Linking to a page that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on Wikipedia and its editors." An automated scanning system for active YouTube links (for that matter, ANY video links from copyrighted sites and/or containing copyrighted footage) so far overlooked is needed; otherwise, the rejection of the re-insertion of the links I speak of (13:10, 16 February 2008) is patently unfair.
I do not undertand you, how can you say false things about a death person as Loyola de Palacio and clear what is right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pukvega ( talk • contribs) 17:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I was linking through to an article originally written by the Douglas motor company promoting the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1925 on a motorcycle (which happened to be a Douglas). The text of the article has been typed out and appears on a geocities site. Kevin Cass re-created this journey and it thus seems wholly relevant to include it as a reference. This is the link which has been removed http://www.geocities.com/xs400/Aust1925.txt. I would argue that this is a very robust source, not under copyright since the company no longer exists, and it is of interest to this article.
Further to this, Kevin Cass built a winning motorcycle which is featured in the registry of classic bikes and which I remember him building. This link has also been removed. http://www.classicmotorcycling.com.au/default.asp?cat=registryview&ID=136
Furthermore, I would like to say that the era of motorcycle racing which Kevin Cass was involved with in Australia is extremely poorly documented anywhere and particularly online (outside of forums) and that I am lucky to find the references I have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kakeass ( talk • contribs) 12:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Pls remove whatbird.com from the Revertlist of the XlinkBot. The link contains the birdcalls and songs of the birds that cannot be added to the wiki. Thanks for your consideration. Ropm ( talk) 18:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I have been removed from three main sources. The first is "Father Vincent Mcnabb," another for "Social Justice" and "Cooperative." As all of these fall under my site, "The ChesterBelloc Mandate" I would like them to be unedited. The site in question is a website dedicated to G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and Fr. Vincent McNabb specifically about the Catholic application of social justice, to include private ownership and cooperative movements.
Regards, Gen Ferrer www.distributist.blogspot.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.113.44.188 ( talk) 04:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that your bot deleted the references to the "666" image in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Why would that happen? I've never seen this satanic symbol mentioned in any other Deeds discussion, it must be an original discovery. The YouTube link took the user to a Deeds clip that showed the symbol, so there was no doubt left in anyone's mind as to its validity.
Deeds was made long before The Omen and Damien Thorn's symbol, and Deeds is an entirely different type of movie than The Omen series. That's what makes the 666 appearance in Deeds that much more confounding; why was it there? An early subliminal, perhaps?
But now we'll never know, as a Wikibot has deleted it! Now what do we do? Or, rather, what are you going to do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.153.180 ( talk) 04:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
> If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly.
Why? If the link is being caught by a bot, and there's no way to override it, then checking it thoroughly is a waste of time, no? The link at issue is to Rick Cook's blog, verified to be him, and really only pertinent in the inline context. --Baylink@en.wp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.96.225.135 ( talk) 05:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you've been adding titles with ===, instead of ==. Can this be changed? The standard way for a new month is with 2. Thanks, Enigma msg! 17:23, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I tried adding information about the Bushmaster ACR, which is an updated version of the Magpul Masada rifle. I tried adding two links to my entry: a video of Drake Clark (one of the designers) from SHOT Show 2008 where he shows the various changes that have been made to the original Masada design as it became the ACR; and a link to the press release where Bushmaster acknowledges that they will manufacture Magpul's design under the Bushmaster ACR name. I thought this link was more valid than a bunch of links to various internet forums. Also, based on Mr. Clark's presentation in the video it is clear that the image depicted on the wikipedia page is of the original Masada design, NOT the Bushmaster ACR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skullworks ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, there is currently a user saying this bot is malfunctining and reverting good faith edits. Just thought I would let you know, please contact this user. Thanks and Happy Editing, Dusti talk to me 18:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I made lengthy changes last night to the Nick Thompson thread. I added references supporting all of the info, and organized all external sources. Is it possible for the changes to be recovered?
P.S. I see now that I am able to revert back to my changes, and I did that. I provided an explanation on the talk page for the article.
Thanks,
Nathan
Joh02639 ( talk) 19:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't quite understand how I was advertising when that was the video I found the information from... unless you meant the one leading to my YouTube channel. In that case, I will change it to my User Page here on Wikipedia. Nutty Gorilla
Hi,
I dont see anything wrong with the link I added. It is to her official website. Her other website is for her book and movie. I am not trying to promote or advertise for her. Her bio is a stub and needs more info.
24.44.191.252 ( talk) 04:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
[2]. Philip Trueman ( talk) 18:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I tried to update the Avastin/Bevacizumab page by changing one of the external links to an updated version -- but the automated bot reverted my change. (It was a link to my online web Journal, as was the original link.)
Why, if the original link was accepted, was not the updated link?
Here is the page link: Avastin ````Irv Arons
An article about the Greek village Pyrsogianni was input in Greek. When it was tagged "needs translation", the author provided an English version which was instantly reverted by XLinkBot because it included this link to the village's web-site on geocities.com. I have restored the English translation, but not the geocities link; however it seems a harmless and indeed useful and relevant one. Is there any reason why I should not restore it? If I do, how can I prevent XlinkBot removing it again? And why does XlinkBot disapprove of Geocities - I don't see anything specific against it at WP:EL? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, the group Planet Youth has its own youtube channel where it uploads all original content relevant to the group itself...if this is still wrong to put up a link, then that's fine, I'll take it down...however, if this is an error, please revert the revertion of the link =) thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Tron ( talk • contribs) 16:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
the vid i put on GM U platform was beside A youtube link... i don't see why that other link wasn't removed...does wikipedia show Favoritism? 72.218.118.6 ( talk) 21:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Here just to report out that XLinkBot undid a revision incorrectly on the Ladyscraper article. This may be because of the swear word in it (" http://myspace.com/proudhonarefuckingdead"). Just thought it would be necessary to report it. --— Mr. MetalFlower · chat · what I done did do 18:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
You're really strange, I just add source to the article. Don't you realize that? It looks to me that you don't know anything, thank to your question. 96.229.126.4 ( talk) 09:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
But is there a way you can work without removing hangon tags like you did here: [3]? - Warthog Demon 01:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
When I made my first edit, there were 3 youtube videos already listed under Air Car (unless I'm confusing it with Motor Development International), so the bot removal looked like an automated thing, not an edit by a person. Then I removed a duplicate youtube link and added a link to a video for the Air Car that wasn't listed. I assumed the robo-messages I received weren't done by a person, so I kept adding the link, changing the style of the link (if it doesn't like youtube links, then how did the 3 original links get there?). Now, all the links to Air Car videos are gone, which is the worst thing possible, since the articles referring to a car that runs on compressed air, no longer have videos from reliable news sources (BBC, CNN, etc) that prove that it does exist and works. Since many people I talk to don't believe that the car is a "real car", having the video from the news agencies is very important. So in trying to improve the article, it got over-edited and made worse imo. Pablo70 ( talk) 22:44, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I can understand simply editing out the one link from Blogspot that would be offensive, but why edit out all of the other links? Some of them were very useful! The first one in particular serves as the most official site for the band that will probably ever exist short of the band reuniting and starting up their own official site. Please help me out. I was not trying to reinsert link spam but was rather trying to do an article more justice than has been done to it, to enrich it, to enable it to be more of a resource than it is at the moment. If you want the external links section to be without the Blogspot link (though it links to a music blog that I personally, as a New Wave/early '80s modern rock fan, respect), then fine, so be it. But please don't edit out the whole external links section. And please do something about the warning. I didn't mean any harm. 69.148.174.204 ( talk) 07:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Not allowing http://flames-of-war.blogspot.com/ to be listed under Fan Sites just because it is a blogspot blog seems a tad anal. Saying that it is in conflict with you linking policy is ludicrous when you consider the remaining Fan Sites left on the list are either DEAD LINKS or are ALSO in conflict with you linking policy. 222.154.239.87 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Please turn off your bott for this site. RealOldSchool ( talk) 10:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi XLinkBot,
This was a valid link that was referenced off a Blogspot. I'll reference the specific target link though if it conforms better to the guidlines.
-AlienDjinn —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlienDjinn ( talk • contribs) 21:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
What is the mechanism for adding a valid, but whitelisted, link to an article Canada Basketball? The bot deleted an entirely appropriate EL because that link had been marked as COI (appropriately) due to the editor who originally added it. Nonetheless, the link is the official web site for the subject of the article and should be added. The subject of the article is I think sufficiently notable to remain even if its original author had a COI problem. Sbowers3 ( talk) 23:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I didn't realize that "established accounts can add the link" and I didn't want to be reverted myself. Thanks. Sbowers3 ( talk) 14:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
WHAY CAN'T YOUTUBE VIDEOS BE ADDED AS EXTERNAL LINKS?!?!?!?!?!? IF THE HAVE INFORMATION RELATED TO THE SUBJECT IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE THEM!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.172.117.40 ( talk) 03:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
This bot is out of control. It is removing legitimate links from wikipedia. Someone needs to disable this rogue code. 75.172.75.141 ( talk) 02:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I see your point i removed both the youtube reference and the link from the videos. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benpreston2001 ( talk • contribs) 11:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittler_guitar
quotes video content in text
added link to youtube is killed by XlinkBot
why that??
btw: the bot is killing other content changes made in the same edit session as well ... a little bug, I guess —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frankpaush ( talk • contribs) 10:55, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
For example, here it reverted lots of added text only because it contained, among other things, a myspace link. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 10:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Unidad_de_Fomento&diff=200829300&oldid=200827939
Your robot not only reverted a legitimate link, but also other non questionable edits I had done.
I thought someone could delete a link just because it was in Blogspot. What I didn't think was that it would be a robot the one who would not read my message. If someone manually deletes the link I won't revert it.
200.111.44.186 ( talk) 18:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I've recently received a test from your bot and I was accused of entering external links, but I only reverted vandalism ?! Please have a look at your bot's edit and please remove this test template from my user talk. Regards, Patrol110 ( talk) 21:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Could this account please be listed as a bot rather than a regular user? Gary King ( talk) 23:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Below are external links that are listed on just one of the pages that I posted the New London County Myspace page. I have also seen Myspace pages at the bottom of many actors pages. How is that any different?
New London County's Official Myspace Page
New London Main Street - Non-profit organization for the revitalization of New London's Historic Waterfront District.
Greater Mystic CT Region - Local directory of organizations serving the population of Greater New London (Greater Mystic).
New London County Historical Society - Incorporated 1870. Historical and genealogical research library in the 1758 Shaw-Perkins Mansion.
The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society - Keepers of the 1678 Joshua Hempstead House in New London, the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry, and others.
New London Maritime Society - Museum in New London's 1833 U.S. Custom House, site of 1839 Amistad landing.
Chart Room - Selected historic maps of New London since 1614.
Ocean Beach Park - City park since Hurricane of '38. New London's beach and boardwalk on Long Island Sound.
Connecticut Storytelling Center - At Connecticut College. Holds annual storytelling festival in April.
Connecticut East Tourism - Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
[17] - The official doublethink website.
One New London - Local political party.
New London Official site - New London government run site —Preceding
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I finally found an article I found interesting, and that I had a lot of knowledge about. I own over 400 pieces of Fenton, and numerous books on Fenton Art Glass. I plan on doing a lot of work to this page. I started out by linking to a few pages for some easy to verify info and then added a list of collectors groups and online groups that are about Fenton art glass. Your bot objected to The Fenton Art Glass eGroup. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fenton-glass/. The bot then proceeded to undo all my edits to the Fenton article, even those before I added the link? Why did it revert multiple edits if the last one was the issue? What exactly is wrong about adding a link to a group that collects Fenton on the Fenton article? AlbinoFerret ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Too thorough You apparently rolled back two consecutive edits made by an anon ip on Hum (band). One of them was adding content and the other was simply adding a MySpace link. Since you rolled back both edits, you deleted the content from the first edit as well. - Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 20:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Your bot reverted this edit [4] on the grounds that it came from wordpress; however that link is completely appropriate given the author ( Terence Tao) and subject matter (Prof. Tao describing a recent result in geometric measure theory that has gotten a lot of attention from all over the math community). I realize a lot of blog links are inappropriate, but whether to include any particular one is a content decision, a matter of editorial judgement that should not be made by a bot. 207.241.238.233 ( talk) 21:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
You removed (at Flo Steinberg) an excerpt from a 1971 Rolling Stone article. I think we're on pretty thin ice when some automatic censor removes legitimate published journalism from a longstanding, legitimate news organization. -- 151.205.28.11 ( talk) 23:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Documentation on gasoline taxes is from the CNBC website Documentation on three strikes is from a Hartford Courant blog
Is this an example of "bad externa links"? Hello..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.141.78 ( talk) 03:29, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Great bot! Peculiar incident though. It caught a newbie putting myspace in Essex Junction, Vermont. It immediately reverted it. He apparently thought he hadn't put it in right and re-added it. The bot did NOT seem to catch it the second time! Student7 ( talk) 00:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Your blacklisting of Timeout.com lead the bot to revert this attempt at adding a legitimate reference to an article. Food for thought, Skomorokh 15:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Whatever is the case in other instances, the structure of the msg you left on an IP talk page that i had occasion to review is horrible.
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The bot apparently all but blanked the NASA page [5]. I don't have time right now to look into why, but I reverted it. -- rogerd ( talk) 10:59, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
A moment ago I reverted a revert by XLinkBot. (It was a very unfortunate action by the bot, as it completely destroyed a newly created page.) I conjecture that the XLinkBot action was caused by the appearance of a myspace URL. However, that URL occurred in comments, not on the page. Maybe it is a mistake to kill pages because of comments. Perhaps the parser in XLinkBot can be improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.84.53.62 ( talk) 21:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Squire, Sanders, and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.
This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot ( talk) 10:30, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
-- 142.165.222.6 ( talk) 19:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)www.myspace.com/robdonison is not a site that promotes an artist. it is simply a collection of Christian rap artists that record that genre of music. is is possibly the most informative source of Christian rap artists on the internet and is an essential link ofr anyone wanting to connect with artists in this genre of music. if you are not clear on this, please check the site itself www.myspace.com/robdonison rob donison is the manager of the site and is an music award judge, not an active recording artist.
The messages left by this bot on user talk pages should be more concise and follow the escalation patterns of prior warnings given by the uw-spam1, uw-spam2, uw-spam3, and uw-spam4 templates. Other bots (ClueBot, VoABot) manage this quite well, and they leave inline comments indicating the warning level. When XLinkBot comes along, the message it leaves doesn't indicate a warning level meaningful to either bots or humans.
For example, on User talk:203.123.154.98, XLinkBot should have left a level-2 spam warning with the comment <!-- Template:uw-spam2 -->, instead of a long essay with no warning level. The essay was incorrectly indented too (which I fixed), making it look like a reply to the prior warning. Please consider these improvements. Thanks. = Axlq ( talk) 06:22, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
A non existing edit was reverted ending with a substitution of the disambig Simmons page by the Simmons & Simmons page.-- Stone ( talk) 14:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
The bot is reverting more edits than just the one which adds links. If an editor has made multiple edits in a row then all of those edits may be reverted, including edits that don't add links. See Freyed knot (if noone has deleted the page yet). 144.110.129.62 ( talk) 07:19, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Why was the "in other media" section of Illinoise deleted? Check the edit log - the reason for deletion is not good enough. If you're gonna remove this for one page, you have to do it for every single page on Wikipedia that is laid out like this. Simple as that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.206.86 ( talk) 12:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I have read the entire links "rules" page and fail to see any violation to a fan forum that is designed to provide discussion of the the article subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.163.198 ( talk) 05:20, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Please use the layout described in Wikipedia:UTM#Multi-level_templates thanks -- John ( Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 19:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Linking to YouTube videos is not banned on Wiki. Nor do the links contravine copyright. Stop reverting! I am reporting this stupid bot. 88.107.110.247 ( talk) 20:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
SOMEBODY needs to deactivate this bot - it does not know what the hell it's doing.
75.8.35.177 ( talk) 21:37, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I recently tried to edit a page and did it incorrectly, my apologies. 66.210.5.90 ( talk) 17:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
1. You are reversing edits if any part of them is adding a myspace link. This is deleting good material also. e.g. [6]
2. We have no absolute rule against linking to myspace if that's where a subjects official page is. WP:EL says "normally to be avoided" not always prohibited. Are you doing this automatically, or is a human looking at what you are doing? DGG ( talk) 22:08, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
I was unaware of the Youtube thing, sorry. 72.0.36.36 ( talk) 04:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I do not see anything wrong with what I did but thanks anyway if I did do something wrong. -- 86.41.91.199 ( talk) 20:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I added an external link to Maajid Nawaaz's and Ed Hussain's blog - the link is relevant. Why was it revereted??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javk ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
The external blogsite review of the theology of this page is clearly substantive, relevant and contributes. Please advise in light of the above actual policy why this site is still excluded? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jak54 ( talk • contribs) 20:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
It has been confirmed both on her my space & her site that she's filming a new video, it's not on wikipedia so i added it with the factual reference, why did you remove it? Could you add it yourself then please, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MusicAngel16 ( talk • contribs) 08:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey! I never even added any links to Demi Lovato! I think something got to your head or maybe you're dumb, but I did not add ANY LINK to the Demi Lovato article! I think that it was stupid and unfair to leave a ridiculous note like that on my talk page. I don't even care if you still think I changed the Demi article. i just don't want you to leave messages like that on my talk page again. DemiLovato15 ( talk) 01:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
The bot is leaving a random, spurious "1" in the automated user talk messages. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 06:19, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello talk people. I have a (civil!) question.
It relates to the Allen Raymond page. I added two links to video in which Raymond is interviewed. Both were automatically rejected. In the one case, it is on youtube. I am the creator of the video on youtube (also posted on Viddler.com) and own the rights to it and think that it is relevant to the Raymond page.
Raymond is known for breaking the law in an election in 2002, and he wrote a book about it, and this video is him talking about the book, American politics, and election laws. Raymond is going to be speaking to the US Congress this week, and I think people who miss that and/or hear about him on the news will find the video of him on youtube (and a second video piece on him, on the Velvet Revolution site) relevant to who he is and what he has to say about American political election process.
Is it possible to have these videos posted? Or is this not acceptable? I'm not sure that the auto-rejection, in this case, is helping support wikipedia. But then again I am new to wiki and while I have read all the relevant support pages, I am a new person to wiki policy.
Wikiliterary ( talk) 16:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi - I've just edited the Jerry Cornelius page, and my edits were removed because of having myspace page links. I am in one of the bands referred to, and this was a preliminary action to me putting on a page about our band..... I've just read the conflict of interest page.... I've contributed to other wikis, so I'm used to NPOV policies, which hopefully should be evident from this initial edit - can you do a page about your own band, if you restrict yourself accordingly? (please reply on my talk page if possible!) -- The Space Banana ( talk) 13:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to this bot for the quick reversion to Pat Burrell. It's quite a nice touch to have all these bots revert things that would take us all a while to find. Thanks! KV5 ( talk) 20:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Crazy bot :) my change's diff is [7] Correct settings, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.76.116.39 ( talk) 16:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't trying to vandalize High Rollers. I was adding links so that interested people could see the pilot episode of the Wink Martindale series. Where's the harm in that? -- 24.106.53.166 ( talk) 02:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
It is a documentary movie. The sound track is in Japanese, the subtitle is in Chinese. If you know either language, you should know the reason I add this to external link. However, I don't care too much.-- 70.79.204.95 ( talk) 15:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
...you need reprogramming. I was repairing damage that someone else had done to the Fouke article. 65.163.115.254 ( talk) 04:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for my total lack of Wiki experience! Thanks for following revision (BOT - Notifying 213.174.185.143 of reverted changes to Sonic Belligeranza (first warning)) I noticed the external link to myspace doesn't work because of a mistake in the url: an / more at the end of the url. Can you remove it or is better that I do myself? Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.174.185.143 ( talk) 13:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Dear Sir/madam
In Student-centered_learning, would you agree to allow the following link to be included under External Links? Children First: the case for child-centred education. The website (of which I am NOT the author!)includes a paper discussing the practical experience of applying a child-centred approach to learning in the Primary school as well as a video of the approach in action. I think it is both relevant to the article and would be interesting for visitors to the page.
Yours sincerely MargyW ( talk) 08:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
The external link I added on the Ace Hood page was not advertising or spam, and it was his MySpace link. Many other articles have rappers' MySpace links, so I was simply adding Ace's. Sorry if I wasn't supposed to, I was only trying to help. ♣ ℳakaveli ♣ Talk ♣ 04:46, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
add http://youtube.com/watch?v=0vC9taroEsI&feature=related ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.90.238 ( talk) 03:20, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
All i did was add an external link (of the trailer) for a movie, Big Wednesday. I don't understand why it was reverted, and in fact am getting a little upset that when I make small improvements so often that their squelched by some random computer. can this be reverted back or should I just bloody give up on helping the Wikipedia project? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.133.108.219 ( talk) 13:30, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
"There is not a blanket ban on linking to" YouTube, Google Video, and similar sites Wikipedia:External_links#Linking_to_YouTube.2C_Google_Video.2C_and_similar_sites, yet the bot removes links and warns the users automatically. It is a good way to violate WP:Bite and drive away new users. Although these links may be spam (I'd agree in most cases that it is), it is not necessarily so and think there must be some way to fix this on the bot. 66.177.175.115 ( talk) 17:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I added links to the Wayne County Chamber of commerce with Tour de Wayne information which is an annual event hosted in Wayne County, they were reverted. Why?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.52.232.147 ( talk) 21:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
i am sorry i did not know that and was just trying to add as much info about him as i coul. please remove the links you feel are bad but please re enter all the other info i gave about him.
bloodline —Preceding unsigned comment added by BloodLine Video ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
The two YouTube external links I attempted to add into the Roswell crash section...are genuine videos of interviews I conducted with Beverley Beanm who father was a soldier at Roswell air base in 1947. I own the copyright to these interviews, and I thought Wikipedia would be a good site to share these authentic interviews with a relative of a genuine witness to Roswell - Nabil Shaban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjS3sC6dmnw http://www.youtube.com/v/usLDpin6G-Y —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.44.38 ( talk) 18:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, the myspace account for the artist formally known as Violet Blue has been deleted pursuant to the lawsuit. I am now known by Noname Jane and I have a new myspace page to reflect that, which is why I changed the myspace page for me aka Violet Blue aka Noname Jane to www.myspace.com/noname_jane. I'd appreciate it if you don't change it back to www.myspace.com/violet_blue because that is a dead link. Thanks! Love, Noname Jane —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.7.140 ( talk) 20:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
the music link to the bowery boys was only added so fans had a chance of contacting each other - again there are not many bowery boys sites on the internet. So I don't understand why these have been edited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.219.41 ( talk) 00:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
This revert was of a link I added to an ongoing comparison of three popular distributed revision control systems. It looks quite useful and relevant to the Comparison of revision control software article to me; it's really primary research, and blogspot.com is just used as a convenient place to hold the information and receive feedback.
On the other hand, I also understand the general policy that blogs are of questionable provenance, and the value has to be high enough to overcome the cost of clutter. But such comparisons of actively developed software grow stale quickly, so current (June 2008) information is extremely valuable.
I'm not quite certain enough to just override the bot, but could someone else please review the matter and render a tiebreaking opinion? Thank you. 71.41.210.146 ( talk) 06:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
This edit reverted all of the edits made by 65.60.138.17 (many of which were valid), not just the last edit containing the blogspot.com link. I have already reverted to an intermediate version. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I did not intend to break rules by changing the link to the Richard Biggs tribute video. The link I posted was to the Youtube page that had the same video. The only difference was that the Youtube video loaded faster. My intention was to give impatient surfers quicker access to the video. It was *NOT* to provide access to spam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.202.40 ( talk) 02:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Whomever you are, please stop acting idiotic by reverting links put in the above article. Those video links do not fit in any of the filmsy excuses you list in desperation to justify your vandalism. The link is a historic political video of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, for reference purposes, directly relevant, appropriate and with great intellectual value (where you stumble). Do not fartz about in this page again. 64.179.16.177 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I added a citation to Character (computing) where the text says "citation needed". Unfortunately, the source is the Google Blog, which is on blogspot, so the change was reverted. Can some Wikipedia user please redo my change? ( [8]) 213.39.218.170 ( talk) 10:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I added a myspace link in regard to Dick Tiger. It was apparently barred. The page itself is the biggest repository of information of information on the subject matter on the web. It contains photographs and links to audio and written materials on the World Wide Web. It is utterly ludicrous to bar this page given that it surpasses the link which claims to have the most photos on Dick Tiger on the web and another which simply gives the address of a gymnasium run by a person who claims to have been his nephew! How does a gymnasium run by a purported relative add to an understanding of and provide vital information on the life of Dick Tiger? Can we please get our priorities right here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.85.185 ( talk) 12:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portugal_national_football_team&diff=218166307&oldid=218166258 doesn't really match the message your bot left http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:85.27.111.54&diff=cur -- 85.27.111.54 ( talk) 13:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I believe the external link I added to St Brigid of Kildare was valuable and information in terms of it being a link to photographs of the St Brigid's Well at Liscannor. Might it be re-instated? Clodagh831 Clodagh831 ( talk) 17:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
When I added a link to The Second Supper's official Myspace, the bot threw the baby out with the bathwater and reverted the entire article back to last week. There have been improvements on the page since then which make it far more relevant and current than the old one, and I will continue to improve upon it. Feel free to check the validity of the myspace address if you wish, and please keep the improvements made to the article. 68.113.253.202 ( talk) 05:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
hi again, as am new to wikipedia and this is my first article i accept your edit although i will probably need to go back and read the rules governing external links. i thought that this particular was ok. in any case, thanks for the alert. i'm learning all the time...
Shibuyacat ( talk) 07:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear XLinkBot,
I am working on succesfully creating my first page, Cedarvale. Please let me finish the page before you make more edits.\
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Due to continuous spam at the ref desks, I've added anontalk (dot) com to the list and logged it. Let me know if I've done this wrong or if more detail is required. Seraphim♥ Whipp 17:34, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
But why did all my text get deleted as well-- Airplane18 ( talk) 12:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
That is her official page and has been reflected as such in her article. 69.204.224.140 ( talk) 14:14, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
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For efficiently reverting yet another groups.yahoo.com link when it was re-inserted by a determined anon editor at Chronic lymphocytic leukemia yesterday. (I'd give you a cookie, but I'm not sure that the bot would eat it!) WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC) |
I have noticed that bots repetitively welcome users despite the fact that many have been around for a while. I know it's not my place to say this, but if a bot reverts an edit made by a vandal, their "welcome" message will not really help -- Maurice45 ( talk) 19:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I undid the removal of the myspace and facebook links on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Washburn. Those sites are run by Abigail and they represent her just in the same way a personal home page would do. I therefor believe that they are not spam but valueable places of information.
-- Krautmaster ( talk) 17:31, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
In User:XLinkBot/Reversion reasons, would you be able to change "imageshack.com" under the domain column to "imageshack.us"? imageshack.com ≠ imageshack.us, and the page is actually talking about the .us regex. Imageshack.com isn't on the blacklist anyway. And while I'm here, a request (though this probably isn't the place to put it). Your blacklist for imageshack (assuming I'm reading it right) disallows jpg, jpeg, gif, png, and svg filetypes. Imageshack, however, actually supports jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff, and swf filetypes. Any chance of modifying the blacklist (and the Reversion reasons subpage, which mentions the regex) to add the other filetypes? Dreaded Walrus t c 08:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
This bot should be blocked for violating WP:BITE. 82.46.8.90 ( talk) 10:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I wrote the morganville texas article i just didnt have an account when i did i immediatly made one after i wrote it check my IP i wrote that article please respond
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If you are going to keep example.com in your revert list, you should stop it from reverting edits like this which do not add links to the domain (which I agree makes no sense) but add references to it. Referring to example.com is an important encyclopedic practice in web-related topics. 89.240.60.228 ( talk) 20:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I saw you reverted my edits to Cuisine of Iceland, presumably because of a link to a blogspot.com site. Is there a general rule against Blogspot sites? The link was to the best site on Icelandic cuisine I could find in English, so it would be a bit of loss if it can't be included in the article under External links. -- Akigka ( talk) 02:35, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
This one. Seemed a valid edit to me. shreevatsa ( talk)
it's a link to Youtube, but video is composed of real footage, not object to copyright, and the soundtrack is by band Petrograd, an alternative punk band that has anti copyright policy, so I don't see a problem in puting a link there. Can you change it? I know that for many people who are interested in the topic would like to find that song. - vrbova4grana —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vrbova4grana ( talk • contribs) 01:51, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
The external link that I added to the United Planet Wiki page is a reputable site, as it is written and revised by the staff at United Planet. Please allow the external link http://unitedplanet.wordpress.com/
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertne ( talk • contribs) 15:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello! You have removed all my external and internal links in the article "Julie-Jane Myers". I'm sorry, I don't understand why the internal links were removed? Can I restore them or not? What was wrong with them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MadeTruly112 ( talk • contribs) 09:41, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
The other two links I added as references were from reputable newspapers and thus serve as a good source of information. Why were they deleted? Thanks.
- Alfonso129
The link I added to you tube is a documentry about gurning the subject the wikipedia entry was about it does not infringe the copywright because I produced the documentry I have tried to submit it 3 times —Preceding
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What was wrong with the BudLee edits? You reverted them? It is me i think ( talk) 22:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi XLinkBot
The clips I linked to on YouTube are for films I produced and own the copyright on. Is it OK to remove the bot? How do I do that?
Thanks Colemancreek ( talk) 23:21, 12 July 2008 (UTC) Peter Ladue
I reverted the bio of Peter Ladue because I own the films I linked to on YouTube. I did this so another reviewer who asked for major revisions could review the changes.
Sorry, but i have only copied the information from Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan. If the links were spam, I didn't know it. I think that the information could be write again but without this link, ok? Thank you.:)-- 83.180.216.14 ( talk) 09:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the "WMyW" low-power TV station W47CK ( MyTV, Shallotte) does use a MySpace page as its primary web presence. I'm getting multiple false-positives on this. -- 66.102.80.212 ( talk) 11:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
hey the recent edit to the omagh wiki page, which contained two links to the offical websites, which are not of a dot com, or dot co uk nature, but are on bebo and myspace.
they have been blocked and reported as spam, i wasnt fully aware of these sites being blocked, being cited as spam. may i please have them back on the page they were added to.
regards William —Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamconvey ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
This bot seems to be less finely tuned than others. Take a look here at the changes I made to Cataphract, changes this bot deemed to be vandalism. There must be characteristics of that edit which make it clear its not vandalism. For example, it's got an edit summary, it introduces the use of cite.php-based footnotes, it makes use of templates—all of these are decent clues even to a bot that we're not dealing with vandalism.
On the plus side, I can revert its actions without it getting into a revert war, so I guess I can put up with it. But please consider making this bot a bit smarter. Thanks. 72.244.203.164 ( talk) 01:49, 15 July 2008 (UTC).
Hi - I undid a change made by XLinkBot to the page Ladyfest. (NB the original edit was not me or anything to do with me.) Just thought I'd let you know that in my opinion the link out to a myspace is justified in this instance. Not sure if there's a way to let the bot know that. -- mcld ( talk) 16:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
In the bot warning about free host sites, "thorougly" should be "thoroughly". I've made a change showing this at User:XLinkBot/Customised warnings, but I wasn't sure if that was a live copy of the warnings, so I've mentioned the spelling error here. Graham 87 12:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Is London Elektricity's myspace considered an unwanted link, even though it is controlled by Colman himself? If so, let me know. I don't mean to be rude here, just want to ask a question. If myspace is not allowed to be cited, how else would I cite my information on his influences? Should I just delete the section? Can I cite a different source if I can find it? Thanks. DubCrazy ( talk) 20:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy
I dont see how this is classed as spam, I only linked to the facebook group as a source.
the band Bad Manner's official site is closed and the link is not-working, when i tried to add a link to their official myspace page i got a rejection
Good work on your part in the effort to eliminate extraneous links. However in this particular case you did not do your research or check in depth. The friendster loveboat2000 site is an alumni site for Taiwan studytour participants like some of the others. If you look and read closely to the message board there are testimonials to the tour's impact and there is absolutely no spam nor is it used for advertising. It is further evidence of the many people who had a significant cultural experience when going to Taiwan on the tour. To delete such a link is to show a cultural insensitivity and an obtuse racial blindness to significance of these networking sites to the Overseas Chinese Community. Please continue your efforts to reduce spam and porn links on Wiki, but please also leave well meaning and appropriate links to sites such as these alone. Thank you.
Regarding the alteration of this page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Cruella_de_Ville&diff=205995108&oldid=205995092)
The CDV Wikipedia page is the ONLY up to date information site for the band...!
I included the list for videos availble on YouTube as factual information (as well as showing what few video performances of the band have survived)... and the link to facebook was only added so fans had a chance of contacting each other - again there are not many CDV sites on the internet.
So I don't understand why these have been edited... especially the video list
PLUS you've reverted to a version the contains a link to the CDV "Stage 6" webpage... Stage6 has closed down so the link was removed.
James (a CDV fan in contact with Philomena & Colum Muinzer of CDV)
Hello,
I recently entered information for a new entry. How do I ensure that this entry, which was for one of my favourite bands becomes visible when people search for their name on google. Basically I want the wikipedia entry to be one of the first results on a google search like it is for most other bands. Please help!
( IvyriseNumber1Fan ( talk) 19:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)).
Hi XLinkBot,
My IP just got a message from you - something about an inappropriate link and a "welcome to Wikipedia." I'm actually not a new user. I forgot to log in. My user name is ask123. I was working on an article I just came across, Powered exoskeleton, that needs a ton of work (to say the least). I just found the article, and it's in awful shape. I'm thinking about just rewriting the whole thing entirely. It's in violation of Wiki policies left and right and just reads terribly. I started placing some tags for original research, weasel words, citations missing, etc., but that's just going to prolong the ultimate prescription for this page's problems: a total rewrite.
In any event, I'm writing you just to let you know that, in the process of figuring out what to do with the page, I cut and pasted some things around as I moved down the article section by section. One of the things I cut from a text section and pasted (temporarily) into the external links section was a crappy link to youtube. For some reason, someone put this random link smack in the middle of the text. I'm ultimately going to delete the link anyway, along with most of the other links in the article, when I have a chance to get to the links section and examine each one individually per Wiki policy. But rest assured, I didn't add that link to the page; It was already there. And I just moved to another place temporarily. If you read the edit history in detail, you will see this to be the case. As I make my way through the article, I'll eventually get to the external links section and will probably end up deleting half of the links anyway per Wiki policy.
So the point is that, while I respect your sentiment and due dilligence, there's really no need to send me this or like messages in the future. I'm well aware of Wiki's external links policy (and other policies). However, simply put, I can't fix the entire article at once. I can only work on one section at a time. So, sometimes, I have to move a sentence (or, in this case, a link) temporarily to another section, with the goal of getting to it later. As I'm sure you know, this is not uncommon in the process of editing an article. It's just the reality.
Thanks for understanding. Cheers, ask123 ( talk) 05:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. In [9] the bot undos an edit from a anon. The undone edit was one that changed a link with a referrer to one that's without. This seems to me to be counter to the bot stated purpose, so I thought you might want to look at it. Taemyr ( talk) 12:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to point out this edit and say that you may want to expand your whitelist a little. Looks like you've missed at least one Myspace page that's unlikely to be spam. Maratanos ( talk) 00:26, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to have a bot automatically remove "YouTube Celebrity Trent from punchy" from the Punchbowl, New South Wales article. This seems to be a constant problem and some editors who contribute a lot to the Sydney suburban articles are becoming frustrated with trent. Also the same person adds a weblink to his You tube video about Punchbowl, I noticed that your bot removed this. Cheers Adam ( talk) 08:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I know that it is possible to blacklist a certain link but is it possible to blacklist a phrase like trent from punchy and have a bot remove it when it is inserted. Adam ( talk) 23:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
The User page says "one should not link to (likely) copyrighted information". This is surely wrong. It should read something like "one should not link to sites that contain (likely) copyright infringements". -- Bduke ( talk) 23:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
You have reversed all my edits - this was because the Link to the Fight for Flights campaign is a blog. THEY KEEP A BLOG AS IT IS EASIER TO MAINTAIN THAN A WEB PAGE and buying up domain names.
Can you revert your edits. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.178.90 ( talk) 11:28, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Wait a minute, the way you are linking to that blog is certainly not the way to go. If the blog is notable, it needs an own wikipedia page, and should not be linked in the text. Also, you may want to have a look at WP:NOT#SOAPBOX, that we are not here to promote propaganda. Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering why your bot does rollback-ish reverts, and not just undoing the one "bad" edit? Here is one example of what I'm talking about. The ip editor did at least one good edit in that series by adding a category and removing the uncat template.-- Rockfang ( talk) 21:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
When you put the automated message on someone's talk page, one of the sentences is:
“ | Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. | ” |
It's just that "creators" needs an apostrophe before the "s". Happy editing! :) Green caterpillar ( talk) 12:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. (See MIM history.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.214.138 ( talk) 14:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
What the hell are you talking about? How was I soapboxing? I was adding info to an article. There's no rule that says I have to know how to make it pretty. That's for people like you who care about that sort of thing. Your bot did something stupid, don't get all defensive about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.214.138 ( talk) 15:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
The blogger billmon switched back from using his own domain (billmon.org) to using billmon.dailykos.com this summer. While dailykos.com diaries aren't generally a reliable source, doesn't it make sense to link to where the fellow posts his writing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smptq ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the Eula Beal page. I'll remember that next time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.83.114 ( talk) 23:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a bug with this bot - a minor one, perhaps, but it's caused a user to complain: On [10] and [11], not only does the bot revert the MySpace link, but it also removes a (legitimate) wikilink to Rebel Road. Oddly enough, there were two edits: One to add a link ( [12]) and one two add the MySpace link ( [13]); and then again ( [14]; [15]). Also, could the MySpace be whitelisted for the article? Thanks. x42bn6 Talk Mess 22:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
If I could, I would, because I can't USE the upload bar anymore. Only Admins can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Bugs Bunny ( talk • contribs) 21:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
myspace.com/sehbahdough is the correct myspace page for Sebadoh. it is NOT myspace.com/sebadoh as was modified by the bot. Arleach ( talk) 03:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
-- Serajulhaque ( talk) 12:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC) Martung is a small town/village of Shangla District. No information about MArtung other than its location, population and area is mentioned anywhere in any encyclopedia. I was born at MArtung and have been living there since my birth. The general information about the people of Martung, their habits, their life style and the crops they grow may not be directly verified from any written source; but these could however be verified by studying the nearby (almost similar) areas like Puran and Chakesar. Area, population etc. have alreday been reffered to the sources. The link which was lastly deleted by the current user was reffering a book written in Urdu by an author Mehmood Fazal, Rokhan. The URL reffered contained the introduction of the book and had image of the title page. This book has little information about Martung, and much about a religious scholar already mentioned in the article. I still think that the reference was not totally irrelevant and may kindly be left undeleted.
I therefor undo the last action and welcome your comments.
I am new user and am not familiar to the general rules how to edit and how to talk to a user. Please ignor my mistake if any.
Thanks a lot.
-- Serajulhaque ( talk) 12:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I don't understand why this myspace link is deleted: www.myspace.com/olgashishkina A page is about a great gusli artist so this link certainly CONCERNS the topic, or am I wrong? I undo the bot's revision but it continues deleting the link. Thanks for understanding, -- Guslimusic ( talk) 14:55, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Your bot reverted my link to Jon Lajoie's OFFICIAL youtube account. I understand why youtube is on your bot's list, to avoid people linking to their own or inappropriate accounts, but since it is official, and appropriate to the article, I am undoing the undoing of it. ZXS9465 ( talk) 14:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC) The page is here if you wish to check it. ZXS9465 ( talk) 14:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what happened here. The Bot removed a single space and the {{ hangon}} template but left the myspace link in. Jons63 ( talk) 06:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi I am adding some links to the periodic table of videos for each element on wikipedia to the relevant video on youtube - please see
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p2cicHXMs1w
as an example
I have full permission from the owner of the video
R —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richnotts ( talk • contribs) 22:16, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
There may be a bug with this bot. The edit summary and the user warning done by it for this revert indicate it was just reverting the addition of an ext link to blogspot.com to Design Build Bluff, but it reverted a lot more. I added back the rest of the edits without the blogspot.com link, but thought I should report this. -- 208.81.184.4 ( talk)
I included a link in a small piece I wrote that was automatically deleted. I think this was because it had typepad in it and that may mean that it links to youtube. The site is not abusing copyrighted material. It is a great sight and very relevant to the short addition. It would not be difficult for a reader to google and find the link without it being in the piece but it might be nice to have it right at hand.( Skaboooch ( talk) 01:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC))
Your userpage reads "conlfict of interest" ;) -- Quiddity ( talk) 21:38, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
The http://xoomer.alice.it/www_enigma : This link is the correct link. This is the first electronic enigma machine to the world. The complete project has been published on the magazine FARE ELETTRONICA April 2002 N°202. No one has never published a project equipped with an electronic enigma machine before with a microprocessor. My link the enigma machine subject has the right to be added to Wikipedia as pertaining. This is my e-mail if you want to contact me for clarifications : www_enigma@lycos.it The Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EUYbI1q1y4 is a My Youtube Link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.2.209.34 ( talk) 00:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
I updated a musicians Wikipedia page and inserted links to her MySpace and Facebook Page. I also added two paragraphs. The entire entry was removed by this bot because of the Facebook link. Why would the whole thing get removed? And why should MySpace Pages be allowed and not Facebook Pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickt83 ( talk • contribs) 01:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickbooks Subsequent releases
This was a rather significant update, requuiring substantial time. I did not understand how to revert and appeal the removal of it. However, I also did not need the link to my http://1234567890.typepad.com/ QuickBooks blog, especially as I understood the "no follow" nature of them. I most respectfully submit that the remaining external links, which are not related to me, have needed citations. Therefore, I thoroughly revised the entry, removing personal opinions and references.
MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA ( talk) 21:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you have mistakenly reverted all my edits. The entire article includes links to youtube videos to make it more informative and give the reader a visual grasp of how exactly the mark took place. I have reverted your edit, becuase you rollbacked all 7 of my previous edits. -- Superflewis ( talk) 01:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Gary Randall was born in Mt. Carmel, Il. I, Diana Randall was merely wanting to place a reference to this as a "stated" fact and that he also has written and published a book about growing up in rural Wabash County.. Anything that I wrote pertained to that fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Af4lg ( talk • contribs) 06:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Please, it does not remove the information that it knows to be correct, this is vandalism. Trigonometrical, simulator Abacus of the great circle—Preceding unsigned comment added by 3sigmain ( talk • contribs)
Yes, I am married to Gary Randall. But long before we met I was his editor. I aided in the processess to ready his second book before publication.
Just do something simiple before you make a final decision.
Do a web search for "Gary Randall author, Tales out of Life. You will find enough information to prove that he is a "published author" & that the book is about growing up in Southern Illinois. If you have access to Mt Carmel's school records you will find he did graduate from that same school. I find that your judgement in this cause is HIGHLY judgemental and based on ignorance of the facts. It is quite factual that Gary Randall published "Tales Out of Life" in 2000 and you have failed to add a notable mention on his hometown page via Wikipedia.
If doing a simple web search doesn't work for you, just check the publishers XLibris & Publish America.
Yes, I've not done anything worthy of note other than to marry him and continue to edit upcoming books. I am a college graduate in the educational field. Don't judge me lightly either. Sometimes just being a member of the masses out here doesn't mean I am stupid. Just a member of the masses that doesn't find that your web site is that informative. There are other sources.
I will continue to create web pages for him and make other contacts via the path of the internet information system.
Diana Randall, a mere resident of the masses.
—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Af4lg (
talk •
contribs)
02:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, please fix your bot. This is currently the official page of the Cornerstone Group faction. - Marching Forward ( talk) 08:36, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
I attempted to add a link of Bob Somerby's page, it seems it was reverted because it came from my blogspot blog. I interviewed Bob Somerby in May of 2006 and I think it adds great value to the wikipedia article. http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2006/05/bob-somerby-talks-about-journalism.html
as far as I know, there aren't many interviews with Somerby, so I think Wikipedia readers would be interested. The same goes for my interview with Fred Thomas of MHz Networks in July 2006 http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2006/07/fred-thomas-talks-about-mhz-networks.html
PrestoVivaceBlog PrestoVivaceBlog ( talk) 02:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
This revert by XLinkBot on the
Girls (Sugababes song) article is very wrong. It should have undone one edit by 77.162.90.44, instead it reverted "to revision 82", which made the article look like this:
[16]
I have no idea where it got that data, but something seems very wrong – if not with the bot then with the API. Can you investigate this?
Cheers,
Amalthea
Talk
18:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
It apparently is *not* quite fixed: [17]. -- Amalthea Talk 17:46, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Odd diff, reverted; originally posted here. [18] x42bn6 Talk Mess 20:23, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Xlinkbot,
You deleted my edits almost immediately.
Is there a reason?
I looked at Swatchman and agreed with you.
If there is a coi, is this personal? Do you know the director?
Many thanks and God bless,
Noblewoman7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noblewoman7 ( talk • contribs) 06:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Holy cow, I got a "new messages" thingie, so I clicked on it, and there were a whole slew of angry wikipedia admin slamming me for things I didn't edit!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.54.22.188 ( talk) 22:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I noticed this edit when checking CSD templates i placed: Image. Note that i made a screenshot instead of a linking a diff for the simply reason the article is likely to be removed. What i see is that the bot appears to revert an edit because of the [http://www.example.com link title] link, yet does not take into account the rest of the edit. I assume that this is a small bug? :) Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs) 15:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I edited the page on Uche Nwaneri in order to detail a disciplinary/legal incident that occurred during his time at Purdue, but had to link to blog posts of articles from the Purdue Exponent since the Exponent's search is down. I'm not versed in Wikipedia enough to understand how to better cite these, and was wondering if somebody could clear that up and reinstate my edits with either better sources or generally help me clean things up.
98.220.222.67 ( talk) 04:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Please see the relavent AN thread. Thanks! NuclearWarfare contact me My work 15:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, your bot recently undid an edit to the article " Paul Oscar" by another editor who had inserted a link to a YouTube video. However, I note that the video appears to be an officially sanctioned one that appears on Paul Oscar's YouTube channel Thisispauloscar. Should an exception be made in this case and, if so, can your bot distinguish between YouTube videos that are official and those that breach copyright? — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 08:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Right, thanks for the clarification. — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 02:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I tried to add the recent Georgia Senate Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll to the appropriate page, United States Senate election in Georgia, 2008 but it was reverted because the URL is from Daily Kos. While I agree that Daily Kos should not be cited for news, they commissioned this non-partisan poll, and therefore they published the results on their website. Research 2000 is considered non-partisan, and has been used by newspapers, such as the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Reno Gazette.
There is partisan talk on the page, but the poll numbers should be included. Research 2000
Muboshgu ( talk) 14:10, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User talk:Shayne.soderstrom, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
hangon}}
to the top of
the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:User talk:Shayne.soderstrom|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact
one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you.
TallNapoleon (
talk)
05:26, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
??? Why do you notify this bot of that? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
My name is Charles Martin Cosgriff. i am trying to link my blog to my Wikipedia entry. The blog is mine, with all material copyrighted by me. Can i do this?
Thanks, Marty cosgriff---- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wickandroll ( talk • contribs) 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
Although I did try to insert a blogspot site link, while not being aware that this might be unacceptable, I honestly do believe I should be considered to be a "reliable source", according to your criteria, for a number of reasons I hope you will research (subject of a book and documentary about my primate work etc.) and would like to discuss why our website link was reverted. Another point I'd like to make that any website connected to the agricultural or biomedical sectors could be considered as belonging to a group that are unlikely to act in the best interests of the baboon and therefore are not immune to offering propaganda, (because baboons are widely used in biomedical research and it is in the interests of this scientific sector to ensure they are seen to be unthreatened. The agricultural sector regards the baboon as a "problem animal", treats this species as vermin, and makes profit a priority at the expense of the environment. Due to these factors, I feel that Wikipedia would gain much relevant information by being open to primatologists who work hands on with this species, whether they are backed by a degree or not. If possible, could you visit the blog site I added to see it for yourself? In no way does it infringe on copyright and is an educational insight into the baboon.
The information I did post about South African legislation can be verified on the D.E.A.T website. Amazingwe ( talk) 11:51, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
"www.pbase.com/plusiotis/image/102517347" Tried to add a link to a photo of my pair of extinct British Large Copper butterflies (Lycaena dispar dispar) .. but to no avail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.168.174.18 ( talk) 19:58, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I re-wrote and extended the article on Henrik Schyffert yesterday. When this bot removed a link to a YouTube clip which I had added, the entire article was reverted.
I undid this reversion and removed the YouTube link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.211.18.71 ( talk) 13:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
I did not appreciate the removal of the video link on the
Jetix article. I want Jetix to stay in the US.
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LDEJRuff~~ (
see what I've contributed) 13:32, 16 October 2008 (EDT)
Can the "Mirror, Mirror" page be recreated after the Desperate Housewives episode airs on ABC this Sunday? AdamDeanHall ( talk) 15:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
This edit from earlier this month appears to be completely wrong - [19] - the link added by the IP appears to be the correct one. Exxolon ( talk) 21:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
those changes are not spams please stop changing them back —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trueshiet ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
URLs like http://www.sexy-lena.com/en/?uid=409353 should probably be prohibited here. — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 05:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
The bot reverted a contribution to Northern Spotted Owl because it violated the rule \bdefenders\.org\b. Please consider the source of the blacklist request. I believe as a source, Defenders of Wildlife, is reliable as most web sources. For this reason I will reverted the revision. -- DRoll ( talk) 22:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
The edit that I made here with the about.com website link does follow the guidelines for external links.
I feel that this rule is very restrictive as it stops people who geneuinely stops the addition of some good content. My understanding is that 110mb.com offers free hosting only, so why penalise just for that? I found a good source in http://mesothelioma-advice.110mb.com, but XLinkBot decided to remove it from Mesothelioma.
Dear XLinkBot,
I'm Liam Sharp. I'm trying to update my own page on this site - which has, I've noticed, not only lost the photo of myself (which I didn't post) but the inserted Mam Tor publishing logo, (which I also didn't post here, but is - I would have thought - certainly relevant, and not spam or self promotion). Here, though, I'm in a bit of a predicament, as genuine updates regarding what I do and who I am seem to be constantly removed. The ones I'm referring too are this: http://machivariuspoint.weebly.com/ which is a gallery site of illustrations from my new novel 'God Killers'. I accept that may seem like self-promotion, but it's entirely legitimate news, and it's free - as is the link to the Beardist site - http://beardism.weebly.com/index.html - a genuine collection of art works that people interested in my work would want to know about, and not commercial in any way, so neither spam nor sales.
I also wished to remove some old pieces, and add Beardist art to the Beardism page, as it directly relates.
Many thanks for your help.
Kind regards,
Liam.
Liam Sharp ( talk) 20:38, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Cheers Dirk.
Absolutely, I'm completely aware that you're not here to promote me. I was very surprised to find out I even had a page here, though naturally delighted. The problem I'm having is that often people wishing to find out about me for events will cite this Wikipedia page, and that not only fails to show what I'm currently working on (The novel, gallery, Beardist art movement as examples) but also has not updated current forums, etc. Thankfully the old ones have at least come down. It's other people who are requesting me to update the page, and wondering where my photo has gone. I'm just trying to help update that information.
Again, very best,
Liam.
Liam Sharp ( talk) 10:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
[ [20] I have replaced the blogspot link and inserted the original US air-force source PDF referenced in that article instead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.113.41 ( talk) 23:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Your bot reverted a link I added to this page while logged out, you might want to work on its parameters. -- Xero ( talk) 19:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, sorry!! I didn't sign in:-). I created the page so I was justing adding a link to what we look upon as our homepage(I play for the club). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.41.235 ( talk) 21:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Ola, Versageek. I notice that XLinkBot currently reverses edits that add and any and all links to facebook.com. While the Manual of Style recommends against linking to sites that require registration, FB "pages" are still visible if one is not logged in, and according to FB policies, they are supposed to be created and maintained only by official representatives of the subject of the page. Facebook's policy states:
So ... I believe your regex list could be cleaned up a bit. Here's my suggestion:
This will allow pages that match \bfacebook.com/pages/ which are supposed to be legitimate.
What do you think?
-- ◉ ghoti 14:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Regarding
this edit, could you please whitelist this domain (jeff560.tripod.com
). Note that the AOL links that XLinkBot restored don't work. --
Zundark (
talk)
11:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Discussion transferred to
User:XLinkBot/Analysis. --
Dirk Beetstra
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The Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided section's first statement is an exception: "Except for a link to an official page of the article's subject". I examined the last 20 "myspace" related edits of this bot and have these statistics: of the 20 edits 8 were unofficial pages and 12 were official pages. However, when examining bot reverts made to edits specifically placed in sections entitled "External links" then included were all 12 official pages and only 4 unofficial pages. This is a ratio of 3:1 unnecessary reverts. My proposition is to specify a command for the bot to allow edits which include "myspace" to remain when they are under a section "External links". Would this be possible? - Steve3849 talk 11:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
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Note that africa.com appears to sell their subdomains, so listing "africa.com" would be bad.
IPs have repeatedly replaced the homepages in the infoboxes of African banks with "bank.africa.com". Coincidentally, the bank.africa.com domain is being sold for an absurd amount of money, (according to bank.africa.com, at least) and has absolutely no connection to any of these banks. The spamming has persisted after three blocks. Sunmist ( talk) 09:22, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
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These sites are respectively a fansite and a blog and are mainly being used as sources to provide statistical information about living people. I have tried removing them in the past but they have proliferated to such an extent it is impossible to tackle it manually. Both websites contravene WP:SPS and an RFC at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Snooker#RfC: Does the use of self-published sources in snooker articles violate BLPSPS and SPS? concurred with this interpretation. It was suggested at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Snooker fansites/blogs that XLinkBot might be an appropriate solution to the problem. Betty Logan ( talk) 03:57, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Link added to multiple article by IP users only (see contributions of linked IP users), hoping this works rather than blacklisting. Ravensfire ( talk) 18:45, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
This fansite is mainly being used by IPs, new and inexperienced users to source the arrivals and departures of actors from the Australian television show Home and Away. The site itself acknowledges that not all of their arrival/departure information is confirmed. Most of the links are added to List of current Home and Away characters (some recent examples: [21], [22], [23], [24]) and the character's individual articles ( [25]), but I've noticed that it's also creeping into the actors' articles too ( [26]), which could be a BLP issue. I feel like I'm removing links to the site almost every week now. There are (eventually) more reliable sources available to back up any arrival or departure information. - JuneGloom07 Talk 21:43, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/newsbytesapp.com is long and the copyvio/refspam problem persists. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam filing was archived without action, but correctly notes that the site is low-value. Not sure if it's at the level of blacklisting altogether (but no objection to going that route instead of XLinkBot). DMacks ( talk) 13:33, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
I think it would be reasonable to revertlist these, as they are being added all the time. Additions are, no doubt, in good faith, but the sites are not appropriate as sources. Guy ( Help!) 11:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Sites promoting bogus medical ideas, fail WP:MEDRS and WP:RS generally, routinely reverted but still being naively (and occasionally abusively) added. Guy ( Help!) 11:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
The first link was started by Special:Contributions/Imran0336. Second and third were added by Special:Contributions/Kamrankhan12 (second one also by many IPs) in 2018 Pakistan Super League. Please note that official website for PSL is http://www.psl-t20.com so the above mentioned links are either mirror or just spam (first, second and fourth). The fifth one may be a YouTuber, who seems to be promoting his work on wikipedia. Also, note these official websites http://multansultans.com/ and http://www.quettagladiators.com/ so other links (third and sixth) with similar name should be considered as spam. Thanks! :) M. Billoo 09:48, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
As requested by user:GermanJoe on my talkpage (see track). Heavily spammed, though with some use. — Dirk Beetstra T C 18:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Unreliable PR platform mostly used by inexperienced and COI editors for promotional editing about borderline-notable products. See also COIBot report for more details. Mostly not outright "spam", but the overwhelming majority of links are inappropriate and/or promotional. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:53, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
discogs.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Please add
Discogs (discogs.com
) to
User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. A
February RfC shows support for adding Discogs to this list as a frequently misued collection of
user-generated content. There was consensus against
deprecating the source by implementing an
edit filter because most editors considered Discogs to be appropriate for
external links, similar to
IMDb. —
Newslinger
talk
00:50, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Cutler has been spamming Wikipedia for years (and recently simple as well) with what amounts to a conspiracy laden rant (see this most recent version). The first couple of sentences change, but after that it's usually the same crap. He's recently increased his activity level to the point it's getting annoying. Several articles are common targets (see the history of Jonathan Luna), but others have little to no pattern. His posts generally have links to a couple of sites, so I'm wondering if XLinkBot is a viable option for an initial approach. An edit filter would also work well, as there are several common phrases (names, court numbers) that could be used, but that seems a fairly heavy hammer that may not be needed. Would someone mind seeing if this is viable, or let me know if the edit filter would be the best approach? Appreciate any time and assistance. Ravensfire ( talk) 23:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Ravensfire: is this about honorstates.org? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
I do think that an edit filter is more functional here, catch typical phrases and the typical articles and block them. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
crunchbase.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Please add
Crunchbase (crunchbase.com
) to
User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. A
March RfC shows consensus for adding Crunchbase to this list as a frequently misued collection of
user-generated content. Most editors opposed implementing an
edit filter because they considered Crunchbase to be appropriate for
external links, similar to
IMDb. —
Newslinger
talk
00:50, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
A recently closed RfC shows consensus to add IMDb to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. I'm requesting the addition of the affected domain. — Newslinger talk 05:54, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
blogsareforever.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com A newly user running the same name as this site has been spamming it on numerous articles over the last couple of days. See Diffs:
The site has been used as a, non- WP:RS, source in a number of articles and has been reverted each time. Please add to the list. -- Blackmane ( talk) 03:35, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Spamming from what appears to by a dynamic ip, since Nov '12. -- Ronz ( talk) 21:22, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Slow edit-warring from ip's since December 2012. The link being added not only isn't a reliable source, it doesn't verify any of the information. The only editor that's responded to the discussions about this does not dispute this. -- Ronz ( talk) 22:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Link constantly re-added by various IP addresses since November 19, 2011. The link itself was discussed during the Kent, Ohio article's FAC process and determined to not fall within the WP:EL guidelines since it is not an official website of the city ( it is run by a private individual) and is not a reliable source. It is also commercial in nature. Attempts to contact the IP users directly or via the article talk page have gone unanswered and the article has been semi-protected three times in the past year and a half. No other contributions to the article have been made by the IP users, just re-adding the link to the External links section. -- JonRidinger ( talk) 19:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Repeated additions of this - apparently, as I can't check it from a work machine - porn site link by at least 5 IP users I have been able to ID (only other reference I could find in a search was at Talk:Smoking fetishism requesting it be removed from the article in May of this year). User(s) using formatting in a - poorly executed - attempt at deception to masquerade it as a link to a government survey. besieged talk 00:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
46.27.137.237 was blocked two weeks ago. Now the two other ip's have been adding the link. -- Ronz ( talk) 15:58, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
User exhibits pattern of adding same website – see contribs (edits 13:18, 3 July 2014 & before – afterwards user switched to talk pages & got indef blocked). Also exhibited by 203.201.61.146 and 27.34.253.98. Outside of these edits, I found the website only two other times, added by IPs ( 59.182.247.79, 122.172.35.71) in 2012. I've gone ahead and removed site since it is not WP:RS. Per Tinaiyer1976 (see Draft:EKhichdi.com) website lets anyone post 'news' and articles. Going to website, it seems to confirm Tinaiyer1976 statement. Thus site should not be allowed as reference or external link on Wikipedia. Thanks, Kirin13 ( talk) 01:29, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
WP:LINKVIO. From inception through June 2012, TV Tropes used CC BY-SA, much like Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia. But in July 2012, TV Tropes unilaterally switched to the incompatible CC BY-NC-SA license. I'm no lawyer, but it looks like TV Tropes has been distributing the work of its pre-2012 contributors in violation of copyright for the past two years. -- Damian Yerrick ( talk) 21:21, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Even for LINKVIO we do not regularly blacklist (only in extreme cases with reasonable abuse). Also here the question: is there any abuse by editors adding it to Wikipedia? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:57, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
There are 8 deprecated sources that have been established as highly unreliable through RfCs, but are currently not edit filtered due to technical limitations/concerns. These discussions provide more context:
The other 6 deprecated sources have already been added to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. 5 of these 6 sources are also on User:XLinkBot/RevertList (with Discogs excluded to allow external links per RfC consensus).
I'm requesting the addition of these remaining 8 sources (comprising 13 domains) to User:XLinkBot/RevertList and User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList, which also target highly questionable sources, but do not have the same technicial concerns. — Newslinger talk 22:52, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Repeatedly inserts this domain masquerading as the official William Hill domain then redirects to the official one using an affiliate tag in order to make money. Very persistent.
[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
This site has at least one editor here who's a fan and who persistently adds ref links to this site, despite the fact that it's an anonymously-run news-mockery site that appears to be either associated with or run by a fan of
Fark. Some of the things that come through this site might be true, but would always need to be sourced to the underlying genuine source mentioned in the article, if the genuine source is indeed mentioned at all.
Zad
68
03:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Newly established editor user:Ellisnyc has added links explicitly from this website since 9 April. Beagel ( talk) 15:06, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Already listed on the revert list, but needs to be added to User:XLinkBot/OverrideList as inappropriate edits referencing it are being added. [39] [40] [41] and many more, just see my recent edits. Most have been added in good faith by IPs and new users.-- Otterathome ( talk) 12:07, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Persistent and sneaky citation spamming. [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] Regards, James( talk/ contribs) 18:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Spammed. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:43, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
As noted at the Reliable Source Noticeboard here, EthniCelebs.com in its own Terms of Service says:
The information on Ethnicelebs is provided for entertainment purposes only. Although we may vet information to ensure its accuracy, we make no assurances that all information on our Site is accurate. You agree that you will not rely on our Service for any purposes which could result in a loss to you if our Service did not perform as expected and, in any event, you hereby release Ethnicelebs from any liability relating to our Service.
Despite this, Wikipedia has many links to, by its own admission, a non- WP:RS site. There doesn't seem any reason to ever use it, and editors at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist suggested it would be a candidate for XLinkBot. Placing it on the bot would save a lot of editors an enormous amount of time, and more importantly, help keep biographical articles up to WP:BLP standards. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 21:23, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Very old, SPI that precipitated this revertlisting has not seen new cases for over 5 years now, and as @ MER-C: was originally saying, it is a worthwile source. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:23, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
List_of_LPFM_stations_in_New_Zealand#Wellington
no link was added. The link was already there 60.234.144.222 ( talk) 22:40, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm simply updating the list of lonelygirl15 episodes on the very extensive list of them (we're up to 410), so the deletion of the last six episodes that I added and provided links to like every other single episode was unnecessary. I put them back in, and unless you're planning to delete the whole article, the deletion of the episodes once again would be extremely contradictory to the rest of the entire article, seeing as how I am only providing updates to the article. Zombiejaci ( talk) 09:37, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
A link on the page Martin Lukes was deleted. The comment from Squelch Bot said in part ... "Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), they are not written by a recognised, reliable source or contain original research."
The last to me looks like a misunderstanding of the idea of No Original Research. Wikipedia is not meant to contain original research, but surely linked pages may contain original research.
Not sure this is really an issue for the page that is relevant here, but still, it looks like a misunderstanding here. -- 81.178.97.181 ( talk) 17:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
This shouldn't be up here. There are situations where it is 100% acceptable if not desirable to link to this site. For example, if a BLP's personal site is at blogspot.com. Lawrence § t/ e 14:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Before adding the external link, I reviewed the External Links policy and believe that the addition of the link adds an important and current information to the entry. Based on my review of the Wiki article and the variety of players and insights into the city of Portland, the link is extremely revelant and offers information that is not offered by the current Wiki entry (and is better added through use of the external link). Please revert the changes. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.41.55.3 ( talk) 23:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi SquelchBot,
Yes. It's my fault to use sources with ambiguous licenses. I'll be careful before citing any source from YouTube next time. Apologies for inconvenience.
Sincerely,
140.112.90.224, 2008-01-29 (Tue) 00:53 UST —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.115.2 ( talk) 00:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi SquelchBot, about the links from my article, Im sorry, I already extracted the external links, I didn't know that I couldn't put them all the times a wanted. But what is the problem with the external links from the two videos from youtube I posted??? Or those are ok?? because I've seen links from youtube' videos in wikipedia so I thought that was ok, and I just put two.
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CarolBkn" —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolBkn ( talk • contribs) 05:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Squelchbot, just a question here on why an external link was deleted.
According to Wikipedia's guidelines for external links, articles "should include links to Web pages outside Wikipedia if they are relevant. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to their reliability." In this case, what could be more relevant than an article listing what documents should and shouldn't be shredded? Especially given the fact that the external link that remains (for OfficeZone) is no less commercial than the one that was deleted. It looks like the deleted link contained original research and was in accordance with the rules.
Thanks... User:Market224 —Preceding comment was added at 13:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Okay, so how do you want me to add Jolie Justus' official blog as a State Senator, if I can't link to blogspot?? 205.167.180.130 ( talk) 20:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
When you told off User:Deana175 off for inserting links to multiple geocities documents at English Standard Version, I think you missed that he/she was simply reverting edits of mine. So I think the edits were in good faith. I've invited him/her to discuss the edits at Talk:English Standard Version. Peter Ballard ( talk) 23:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I have reverted your change to the Marguerite Perrin article-- you removed the link to her MySpace page. Since the link it to a page belonging to the SUBJECT of the article, it is a valid link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.251.45.216 ( talk) 01:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I only linked to a YouTube video because the article referred to it; I thought the article would look better with a link to an actual video rather than saying what the video's called and saying that one could find it on YouTube. I'm sorry! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.111.233 ( talk) 05:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I think http://krnloop.wordpress.com/ should be included in the external links. It provides translations of Korean entertainment news articles with a neutral point of view (and links to original Korean sources). Some people have been adding sites such AllKpop.com and other resources are either biased or do not provide enough information. I believe Krnloop should stay on the list since English news about Kpop is very limited. 75.15.86.252 ( talk) 06:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm a big fan of yours. Enigmaman ( talk) 18:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
moved to bot's userpage
Hallo, you deleted the external link I add. OK, it's a blog, but it's the only which issued the Themerson's experimental video Calling Mr.Smith. So I think we could leave this external link. Best, Marcocrotone —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcocrotone ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Themerson the blog http://mellart.blogspot.com/2008/01/calling-mr-smith.html isn't official page, ins't a famous blog, but it's the only blog which analize the short films Calling Mr. Smith! talk • contribs) 20:13, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, why was the link to a 1956 document not deemed acceptable? Thanks! Rocky2276 ( talk) 17:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at my edit here to see if this is valid or not? The link is to a video where Hans Keller (the subject of the article) interviews a band that was on a television show that he hosted in the 1960s. I looked at the guidelines and don't see how this is a violation of them, but could you check just to be sure? It was not an attempt at spam. You also erased my infobox, which am pretty sure is not spam. Cheers. 70.186.172.75 ( talk) 12:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Intel_8085&diff=188135564&oldid=188120245 which was reverted due to regex match of "geocities", while I do understand the reason for the regex (and could basically re-add the edit without said link), I feel that adding additional freeware resources to that article helps because, 1) the article deals with an electronic component that is frequently used all over the world by numerous universities in computer science and engineering courses to teach microprocessor and microcontroller design/architecture, thus it is highly likely that readers may be interested in freely available educational programs about said component (namely, microprocessor simulators), thus the encyclopedic value of the article is increased by such links (even though a couple of links are added), 2) the originally mentioned program 'gnusim8085' (while free and open source) is currently restricted to one single OS (namely, Linux) 3) however, an significant portion of computer users today is still using Win32-based OS, and 4) all added links refer to freeware programs, thus there is no commercial interest at all. Therefore, please reconsider the edits of the bot. Thank you!—Preceding unsigned comment added by Parallelized ( talk • contribs)
Your psycho-bot is removing inter-Wikipedia Links like:
The planet Earth's
temperature extreme records are:
See the reversions at
Planetary human habitability
198.163.53.10 (
talk)
18:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
The 22nd Bomb Group was a very forward unit of the USAAF in World War 2. President Lyndon Johnson got a silver star for a 30 minute ride with the Group. In compiling historical material for the 22nd Bomb Group's entry, contributors are encouraged to provide historical sources. Three incredibly important sources have been discovered and added to the Wikipedia website: 1. a personal account of the first action seen by the Group: an attack on the Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Midway, by Lt James Muri. 2. a personal account of the first action seen by the Group in New Guinea 3. a video of a crash landing of a survivor from the mission that LBJ went on for the first 30 minutes (his flight turned back). These are important sources that get posted onto the internet ... and I scan the internet regularly for new, important material to add to the site. I don't understand the exclusion of these really important historical sources. I am the creator of this entry and have not logged in because I've lost my login set. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.124.102 ( talk) 23:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to say that in my opinion the bot is counter productive in the respect that it removes links to youtube for example, without apparently any forethought as to whether they are valid or not. If you do not want any links to some sites, why not simply blacklist them ? Jackaranga ( talk) 20:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I suggest that the 'installing glass tiles' ext link from the Dec 20 version of this page should be reinstated:
"Wikipedia articles should include links to Web pages outside Wikipedia if they are relevant. Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to their reliability (such as reviews and interviews)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtbaldyred ( talk • contribs) 05:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am this IP, you reverting edits by Quickload, and now this user make a Copyright infringement, the new text is from here, sorry for my bad English. Greetings from Austria. -- 195.3.113.176 ( talk) 14:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
As stated on my talk page, I am the author of both texts in the wikipedia article (that I started) and the informative site referring to the Caracal pistol. Same for many other texts and pictures that can be found on both my sites and Wikipedia articles referring to historical firearms, mainly submachineguns like the Bergmann MP 18.1, the Colt 635, the Steyr MP 34 etc...
Edmond HUET ( talk) 13:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
As statet here [1] you did remove the Link to the YouTube Page were MB does show his OWN Videos. so please do insert this Link again. 194.76.29.2 ( talk) 10:26, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Please delete the file. I'm sorry for any trouble I have caused. Thank You, User:Cool-guy357
The limits of the semantic web are not set by the use of machines themselves and biological systems could be used to reach this goal, but as the logic that is being used to construct it does not contemplate the concept of time, since it is purely formal logic and metonymic lacks the metaphor, and that is what Gödel's theorems remark, the final tautology of each construction or metonymic language ( mathematical), which leads to inconsistencies. The construction of the Semantic Web is a undecidible problem.
This consistent logic is completely opposite to the logic that makes inconsistent use of time, inherent of human unconscious, but the use of time is built on the lack, not on positive things, it is based on denials and absences, and that is impossible to reflect on a machine because of the perceived lack of the required self-awareness is acquired with the absence.
The problem is we are trying to build an intelligent system to replace our way of thinking, at least in the information search, but the special nature of human mind is the use of time which lets human beings reach a conclusion, therefore does not exist in the human mind the halting problem or stop of calculation.
So all efforts faced toward semantic web are doomed to failure a priori if the aim is to extend our human way of thinking into machines, they lack the metaphorical speech, because only a mathematical construction, which will always be tautological and metonymic, and lacks the use of the time that is what leads to the conclusion or "stop".
As a demonstration of that, if you suppose it is possible to construct the semantic web, as a language with capabilities similar to human language, which has the use of time, should we face it as a theorem, we can prove it to be false with a counter example, and it is given in the particular case of the Turing machine and "the halting problem".
Rugby league in France
I understand very well what you say:
. official links of the French republic (government(s) or its institutions) are false,
. official documents of the French republic (the image provided by government(s) or its institutions ) are false,
. official infos provided by the French historians are false.
Consequently
. why want you this: "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable" ?
. why require you this: "Reference(s)" ?
. why want you this: "the writings have to be documented ?
—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
82.216.5.2 (
talk)
12:38, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand what you said but governments, official institutions, Historians don't add on internet or in theirs books all documents they issue or find; you are obliged to do searches with the info they give and to do photocopies of the documents that you put after in a free image share service.
Moreover for a French who provides false official documents it is several months in prison and several thousands € of penalties, for a French state civil servant prison and penalties are huguely more important; where is my interest or of L. Bonnery's interest ? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
82.216.5.2 (
talk)
13:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
1) I always give my sources (in references or links).
2) have you read above the consequences for providing false official documents (where is my interest) ?
I entered www.my-plasma-tv.com under External Links for Plasma TV's and it was rejected by XLinkBot with this reason "The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bblogspot\.com' (link(s): http://plasmatelevision42.blogspot.com/) ."
The my-plasma-tv does not link to a blog, forum or free web hosting service. It is a site dedicated to explaining how plasma tv's work, comparing them to LCD's, how to hang above a fireplace, how to hide the wires, affects of sunlight etc.
It is a current and up to date site as opposed to the link from 2004 (Plasma display panels: The colorful history of an Illinois technology by Jamie Hutchinson, Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni News, Winter 2002-2003).
Yes, there are adsense ads on it but who doesn't have those. Could this be a Bot Error? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wendi789 ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for explaining what happened. I would still like to add http://www.my-plasma-tv.com to the Plasma TV page. I'm concerned that if I add it again I will get the same error and a "second warning". Could an administrator add this site in the External links section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wendi789 ( talk • contribs) 12:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I am not able to understand the reason behind reverting the update on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_QuickTest_Professional You can have an expert check for this website http://mercuryquicktestprofessional.blogspot.com This links gives some of the very practical solutions for beginners and advanced users of QTP. Your algorithm penalize any site hosted on blogspot...that in my opinion is insane. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.91.144.90 ( talk) 18:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Please leave the link to the googlepages weather link for this page. A useful service. Bellagio99 ( talk) 14:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I tried to add a link to http://slgames.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/alternatives-to-second-life-uber-edition/#more-340 I do think this adds value to the article. Please consider allowing this particular URL to that page. I understand that many blogs are unreliable but this particular article I think does add value. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.100.8 ( talk) 01:20, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently re-inserted some unique links that were deleted by a user who is bitter that his link (he couldn't wait to word it and post it in a backhanded way to try to further call Secretariat's greatness into question) with Secretariat losing in the 1973 Wood Memorial was deleted; his continued denigration of the horse in his previous "correcting" posts spells him out as a troublemaker. This user has an ax to grind with anyone who enjoys Secretariat and his accomplishments, he seems to detest Secretariat because he thinks he is overrated. After he deleted said links, he has NOT deleted any other YouTube horse racing links, ANYWHERE on Wikipedia. That is MOST peculiar, and telling.
All I ask therefore is that ALL automated BOTS on Wikipedia are THOROUGH in their deletion of YouTube links by scanning for and deleting CURRENT links as well, not just deleting links via a more stringent screening of illegal YouTube links added in the future. To not do so is unethical; Wikipedia's own words: "Linking to a page that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on Wikipedia and its editors." An automated scanning system for active YouTube links (for that matter, ANY video links from copyrighted sites and/or containing copyrighted footage) so far overlooked is needed; otherwise, the rejection of the re-insertion of the links I speak of (13:10, 16 February 2008) is patently unfair.
I do not undertand you, how can you say false things about a death person as Loyola de Palacio and clear what is right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pukvega ( talk • contribs) 17:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I was linking through to an article originally written by the Douglas motor company promoting the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1925 on a motorcycle (which happened to be a Douglas). The text of the article has been typed out and appears on a geocities site. Kevin Cass re-created this journey and it thus seems wholly relevant to include it as a reference. This is the link which has been removed http://www.geocities.com/xs400/Aust1925.txt. I would argue that this is a very robust source, not under copyright since the company no longer exists, and it is of interest to this article.
Further to this, Kevin Cass built a winning motorcycle which is featured in the registry of classic bikes and which I remember him building. This link has also been removed. http://www.classicmotorcycling.com.au/default.asp?cat=registryview&ID=136
Furthermore, I would like to say that the era of motorcycle racing which Kevin Cass was involved with in Australia is extremely poorly documented anywhere and particularly online (outside of forums) and that I am lucky to find the references I have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kakeass ( talk • contribs) 12:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Pls remove whatbird.com from the Revertlist of the XlinkBot. The link contains the birdcalls and songs of the birds that cannot be added to the wiki. Thanks for your consideration. Ropm ( talk) 18:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I have been removed from three main sources. The first is "Father Vincent Mcnabb," another for "Social Justice" and "Cooperative." As all of these fall under my site, "The ChesterBelloc Mandate" I would like them to be unedited. The site in question is a website dedicated to G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and Fr. Vincent McNabb specifically about the Catholic application of social justice, to include private ownership and cooperative movements.
Regards, Gen Ferrer www.distributist.blogspot.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.113.44.188 ( talk) 04:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that your bot deleted the references to the "666" image in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Why would that happen? I've never seen this satanic symbol mentioned in any other Deeds discussion, it must be an original discovery. The YouTube link took the user to a Deeds clip that showed the symbol, so there was no doubt left in anyone's mind as to its validity.
Deeds was made long before The Omen and Damien Thorn's symbol, and Deeds is an entirely different type of movie than The Omen series. That's what makes the 666 appearance in Deeds that much more confounding; why was it there? An early subliminal, perhaps?
But now we'll never know, as a Wikibot has deleted it! Now what do we do? Or, rather, what are you going to do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.153.180 ( talk) 04:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
> If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly.
Why? If the link is being caught by a bot, and there's no way to override it, then checking it thoroughly is a waste of time, no? The link at issue is to Rick Cook's blog, verified to be him, and really only pertinent in the inline context. --Baylink@en.wp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.96.225.135 ( talk) 05:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you've been adding titles with ===, instead of ==. Can this be changed? The standard way for a new month is with 2. Thanks, Enigma msg! 17:23, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I tried adding information about the Bushmaster ACR, which is an updated version of the Magpul Masada rifle. I tried adding two links to my entry: a video of Drake Clark (one of the designers) from SHOT Show 2008 where he shows the various changes that have been made to the original Masada design as it became the ACR; and a link to the press release where Bushmaster acknowledges that they will manufacture Magpul's design under the Bushmaster ACR name. I thought this link was more valid than a bunch of links to various internet forums. Also, based on Mr. Clark's presentation in the video it is clear that the image depicted on the wikipedia page is of the original Masada design, NOT the Bushmaster ACR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skullworks ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, there is currently a user saying this bot is malfunctining and reverting good faith edits. Just thought I would let you know, please contact this user. Thanks and Happy Editing, Dusti talk to me 18:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I made lengthy changes last night to the Nick Thompson thread. I added references supporting all of the info, and organized all external sources. Is it possible for the changes to be recovered?
P.S. I see now that I am able to revert back to my changes, and I did that. I provided an explanation on the talk page for the article.
Thanks,
Nathan
Joh02639 ( talk) 19:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't quite understand how I was advertising when that was the video I found the information from... unless you meant the one leading to my YouTube channel. In that case, I will change it to my User Page here on Wikipedia. Nutty Gorilla
Hi,
I dont see anything wrong with the link I added. It is to her official website. Her other website is for her book and movie. I am not trying to promote or advertise for her. Her bio is a stub and needs more info.
24.44.191.252 ( talk) 04:08, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
[2]. Philip Trueman ( talk) 18:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I tried to update the Avastin/Bevacizumab page by changing one of the external links to an updated version -- but the automated bot reverted my change. (It was a link to my online web Journal, as was the original link.)
Why, if the original link was accepted, was not the updated link?
Here is the page link: Avastin ````Irv Arons
An article about the Greek village Pyrsogianni was input in Greek. When it was tagged "needs translation", the author provided an English version which was instantly reverted by XLinkBot because it included this link to the village's web-site on geocities.com. I have restored the English translation, but not the geocities link; however it seems a harmless and indeed useful and relevant one. Is there any reason why I should not restore it? If I do, how can I prevent XlinkBot removing it again? And why does XlinkBot disapprove of Geocities - I don't see anything specific against it at WP:EL? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, the group Planet Youth has its own youtube channel where it uploads all original content relevant to the group itself...if this is still wrong to put up a link, then that's fine, I'll take it down...however, if this is an error, please revert the revertion of the link =) thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Tron ( talk • contribs) 16:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
the vid i put on GM U platform was beside A youtube link... i don't see why that other link wasn't removed...does wikipedia show Favoritism? 72.218.118.6 ( talk) 21:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Here just to report out that XLinkBot undid a revision incorrectly on the Ladyscraper article. This may be because of the swear word in it (" http://myspace.com/proudhonarefuckingdead"). Just thought it would be necessary to report it. --— Mr. MetalFlower · chat · what I done did do 18:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
You're really strange, I just add source to the article. Don't you realize that? It looks to me that you don't know anything, thank to your question. 96.229.126.4 ( talk) 09:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
But is there a way you can work without removing hangon tags like you did here: [3]? - Warthog Demon 01:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
When I made my first edit, there were 3 youtube videos already listed under Air Car (unless I'm confusing it with Motor Development International), so the bot removal looked like an automated thing, not an edit by a person. Then I removed a duplicate youtube link and added a link to a video for the Air Car that wasn't listed. I assumed the robo-messages I received weren't done by a person, so I kept adding the link, changing the style of the link (if it doesn't like youtube links, then how did the 3 original links get there?). Now, all the links to Air Car videos are gone, which is the worst thing possible, since the articles referring to a car that runs on compressed air, no longer have videos from reliable news sources (BBC, CNN, etc) that prove that it does exist and works. Since many people I talk to don't believe that the car is a "real car", having the video from the news agencies is very important. So in trying to improve the article, it got over-edited and made worse imo. Pablo70 ( talk) 22:44, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I can understand simply editing out the one link from Blogspot that would be offensive, but why edit out all of the other links? Some of them were very useful! The first one in particular serves as the most official site for the band that will probably ever exist short of the band reuniting and starting up their own official site. Please help me out. I was not trying to reinsert link spam but was rather trying to do an article more justice than has been done to it, to enrich it, to enable it to be more of a resource than it is at the moment. If you want the external links section to be without the Blogspot link (though it links to a music blog that I personally, as a New Wave/early '80s modern rock fan, respect), then fine, so be it. But please don't edit out the whole external links section. And please do something about the warning. I didn't mean any harm. 69.148.174.204 ( talk) 07:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Not allowing http://flames-of-war.blogspot.com/ to be listed under Fan Sites just because it is a blogspot blog seems a tad anal. Saying that it is in conflict with you linking policy is ludicrous when you consider the remaining Fan Sites left on the list are either DEAD LINKS or are ALSO in conflict with you linking policy. 222.154.239.87 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Please turn off your bott for this site. RealOldSchool ( talk) 10:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi XLinkBot,
This was a valid link that was referenced off a Blogspot. I'll reference the specific target link though if it conforms better to the guidlines.
-AlienDjinn —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlienDjinn ( talk • contribs) 21:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
What is the mechanism for adding a valid, but whitelisted, link to an article Canada Basketball? The bot deleted an entirely appropriate EL because that link had been marked as COI (appropriately) due to the editor who originally added it. Nonetheless, the link is the official web site for the subject of the article and should be added. The subject of the article is I think sufficiently notable to remain even if its original author had a COI problem. Sbowers3 ( talk) 23:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I didn't realize that "established accounts can add the link" and I didn't want to be reverted myself. Thanks. Sbowers3 ( talk) 14:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
WHAY CAN'T YOUTUBE VIDEOS BE ADDED AS EXTERNAL LINKS?!?!?!?!?!? IF THE HAVE INFORMATION RELATED TO THE SUBJECT IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE THEM!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.172.117.40 ( talk) 03:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
This bot is out of control. It is removing legitimate links from wikipedia. Someone needs to disable this rogue code. 75.172.75.141 ( talk) 02:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I see your point i removed both the youtube reference and the link from the videos. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benpreston2001 ( talk • contribs) 11:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittler_guitar
quotes video content in text
added link to youtube is killed by XlinkBot
why that??
btw: the bot is killing other content changes made in the same edit session as well ... a little bug, I guess —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frankpaush ( talk • contribs) 10:55, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
For example, here it reverted lots of added text only because it contained, among other things, a myspace link. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 10:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Unidad_de_Fomento&diff=200829300&oldid=200827939
Your robot not only reverted a legitimate link, but also other non questionable edits I had done.
I thought someone could delete a link just because it was in Blogspot. What I didn't think was that it would be a robot the one who would not read my message. If someone manually deletes the link I won't revert it.
200.111.44.186 ( talk) 18:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I've recently received a test from your bot and I was accused of entering external links, but I only reverted vandalism ?! Please have a look at your bot's edit and please remove this test template from my user talk. Regards, Patrol110 ( talk) 21:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Could this account please be listed as a bot rather than a regular user? Gary King ( talk) 23:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Below are external links that are listed on just one of the pages that I posted the New London County Myspace page. I have also seen Myspace pages at the bottom of many actors pages. How is that any different?
New London County's Official Myspace Page
New London Main Street - Non-profit organization for the revitalization of New London's Historic Waterfront District.
Greater Mystic CT Region - Local directory of organizations serving the population of Greater New London (Greater Mystic).
New London County Historical Society - Incorporated 1870. Historical and genealogical research library in the 1758 Shaw-Perkins Mansion.
The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society - Keepers of the 1678 Joshua Hempstead House in New London, the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry, and others.
New London Maritime Society - Museum in New London's 1833 U.S. Custom House, site of 1839 Amistad landing.
Chart Room - Selected historic maps of New London since 1614.
Ocean Beach Park - City park since Hurricane of '38. New London's beach and boardwalk on Long Island Sound.
Connecticut Storytelling Center - At Connecticut College. Holds annual storytelling festival in April.
Connecticut East Tourism - Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
[17] - The official doublethink website.
One New London - Local political party.
New London Official site - New London government run site —Preceding
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removed external link —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davellis41 ( talk • contribs) 06:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
I finally found an article I found interesting, and that I had a lot of knowledge about. I own over 400 pieces of Fenton, and numerous books on Fenton Art Glass. I plan on doing a lot of work to this page. I started out by linking to a few pages for some easy to verify info and then added a list of collectors groups and online groups that are about Fenton art glass. Your bot objected to The Fenton Art Glass eGroup. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fenton-glass/. The bot then proceeded to undo all my edits to the Fenton article, even those before I added the link? Why did it revert multiple edits if the last one was the issue? What exactly is wrong about adding a link to a group that collects Fenton on the Fenton article? AlbinoFerret ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Too thorough You apparently rolled back two consecutive edits made by an anon ip on Hum (band). One of them was adding content and the other was simply adding a MySpace link. Since you rolled back both edits, you deleted the content from the first edit as well. - Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 20:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Your bot reverted this edit [4] on the grounds that it came from wordpress; however that link is completely appropriate given the author ( Terence Tao) and subject matter (Prof. Tao describing a recent result in geometric measure theory that has gotten a lot of attention from all over the math community). I realize a lot of blog links are inappropriate, but whether to include any particular one is a content decision, a matter of editorial judgement that should not be made by a bot. 207.241.238.233 ( talk) 21:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
You removed (at Flo Steinberg) an excerpt from a 1971 Rolling Stone article. I think we're on pretty thin ice when some automatic censor removes legitimate published journalism from a longstanding, legitimate news organization. -- 151.205.28.11 ( talk) 23:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Documentation on gasoline taxes is from the CNBC website Documentation on three strikes is from a Hartford Courant blog
Is this an example of "bad externa links"? Hello..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.141.78 ( talk) 03:29, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Great bot! Peculiar incident though. It caught a newbie putting myspace in Essex Junction, Vermont. It immediately reverted it. He apparently thought he hadn't put it in right and re-added it. The bot did NOT seem to catch it the second time! Student7 ( talk) 00:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Your blacklisting of Timeout.com lead the bot to revert this attempt at adding a legitimate reference to an article. Food for thought, Skomorokh 15:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Whatever is the case in other instances, the structure of the msg you left on an IP talk page that i had occasion to review is horrible.
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The bot apparently all but blanked the NASA page [5]. I don't have time right now to look into why, but I reverted it. -- rogerd ( talk) 10:59, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
A moment ago I reverted a revert by XLinkBot. (It was a very unfortunate action by the bot, as it completely destroyed a newly created page.) I conjecture that the XLinkBot action was caused by the appearance of a myspace URL. However, that URL occurred in comments, not on the page. Maybe it is a mistake to kill pages because of comments. Perhaps the parser in XLinkBot can be improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.84.53.62 ( talk) 21:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Squire, Sanders, and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.
This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot ( talk) 10:30, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
-- 142.165.222.6 ( talk) 19:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)www.myspace.com/robdonison is not a site that promotes an artist. it is simply a collection of Christian rap artists that record that genre of music. is is possibly the most informative source of Christian rap artists on the internet and is an essential link ofr anyone wanting to connect with artists in this genre of music. if you are not clear on this, please check the site itself www.myspace.com/robdonison rob donison is the manager of the site and is an music award judge, not an active recording artist.
The messages left by this bot on user talk pages should be more concise and follow the escalation patterns of prior warnings given by the uw-spam1, uw-spam2, uw-spam3, and uw-spam4 templates. Other bots (ClueBot, VoABot) manage this quite well, and they leave inline comments indicating the warning level. When XLinkBot comes along, the message it leaves doesn't indicate a warning level meaningful to either bots or humans.
For example, on User talk:203.123.154.98, XLinkBot should have left a level-2 spam warning with the comment <!-- Template:uw-spam2 -->, instead of a long essay with no warning level. The essay was incorrectly indented too (which I fixed), making it look like a reply to the prior warning. Please consider these improvements. Thanks. = Axlq ( talk) 06:22, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
A non existing edit was reverted ending with a substitution of the disambig Simmons page by the Simmons & Simmons page.-- Stone ( talk) 14:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
The bot is reverting more edits than just the one which adds links. If an editor has made multiple edits in a row then all of those edits may be reverted, including edits that don't add links. See Freyed knot (if noone has deleted the page yet). 144.110.129.62 ( talk) 07:19, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Why was the "in other media" section of Illinoise deleted? Check the edit log - the reason for deletion is not good enough. If you're gonna remove this for one page, you have to do it for every single page on Wikipedia that is laid out like this. Simple as that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.206.86 ( talk) 12:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I have read the entire links "rules" page and fail to see any violation to a fan forum that is designed to provide discussion of the the article subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.163.198 ( talk) 05:20, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Please use the layout described in Wikipedia:UTM#Multi-level_templates thanks -- John ( Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 19:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Linking to YouTube videos is not banned on Wiki. Nor do the links contravine copyright. Stop reverting! I am reporting this stupid bot. 88.107.110.247 ( talk) 20:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
SOMEBODY needs to deactivate this bot - it does not know what the hell it's doing.
75.8.35.177 ( talk) 21:37, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I recently tried to edit a page and did it incorrectly, my apologies. 66.210.5.90 ( talk) 17:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
1. You are reversing edits if any part of them is adding a myspace link. This is deleting good material also. e.g. [6]
2. We have no absolute rule against linking to myspace if that's where a subjects official page is. WP:EL says "normally to be avoided" not always prohibited. Are you doing this automatically, or is a human looking at what you are doing? DGG ( talk) 22:08, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
I was unaware of the Youtube thing, sorry. 72.0.36.36 ( talk) 04:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I do not see anything wrong with what I did but thanks anyway if I did do something wrong. -- 86.41.91.199 ( talk) 20:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I added an external link to Maajid Nawaaz's and Ed Hussain's blog - the link is relevant. Why was it revereted??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javk ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
The external blogsite review of the theology of this page is clearly substantive, relevant and contributes. Please advise in light of the above actual policy why this site is still excluded? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jak54 ( talk • contribs) 20:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
It has been confirmed both on her my space & her site that she's filming a new video, it's not on wikipedia so i added it with the factual reference, why did you remove it? Could you add it yourself then please, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MusicAngel16 ( talk • contribs) 08:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey! I never even added any links to Demi Lovato! I think something got to your head or maybe you're dumb, but I did not add ANY LINK to the Demi Lovato article! I think that it was stupid and unfair to leave a ridiculous note like that on my talk page. I don't even care if you still think I changed the Demi article. i just don't want you to leave messages like that on my talk page again. DemiLovato15 ( talk) 01:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
The bot is leaving a random, spurious "1" in the automated user talk messages. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 06:19, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello talk people. I have a (civil!) question.
It relates to the Allen Raymond page. I added two links to video in which Raymond is interviewed. Both were automatically rejected. In the one case, it is on youtube. I am the creator of the video on youtube (also posted on Viddler.com) and own the rights to it and think that it is relevant to the Raymond page.
Raymond is known for breaking the law in an election in 2002, and he wrote a book about it, and this video is him talking about the book, American politics, and election laws. Raymond is going to be speaking to the US Congress this week, and I think people who miss that and/or hear about him on the news will find the video of him on youtube (and a second video piece on him, on the Velvet Revolution site) relevant to who he is and what he has to say about American political election process.
Is it possible to have these videos posted? Or is this not acceptable? I'm not sure that the auto-rejection, in this case, is helping support wikipedia. But then again I am new to wiki and while I have read all the relevant support pages, I am a new person to wiki policy.
Wikiliterary ( talk) 16:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi - I've just edited the Jerry Cornelius page, and my edits were removed because of having myspace page links. I am in one of the bands referred to, and this was a preliminary action to me putting on a page about our band..... I've just read the conflict of interest page.... I've contributed to other wikis, so I'm used to NPOV policies, which hopefully should be evident from this initial edit - can you do a page about your own band, if you restrict yourself accordingly? (please reply on my talk page if possible!) -- The Space Banana ( talk) 13:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks to this bot for the quick reversion to Pat Burrell. It's quite a nice touch to have all these bots revert things that would take us all a while to find. Thanks! KV5 ( talk) 20:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Crazy bot :) my change's diff is [7] Correct settings, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.76.116.39 ( talk) 16:04, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't trying to vandalize High Rollers. I was adding links so that interested people could see the pilot episode of the Wink Martindale series. Where's the harm in that? -- 24.106.53.166 ( talk) 02:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
It is a documentary movie. The sound track is in Japanese, the subtitle is in Chinese. If you know either language, you should know the reason I add this to external link. However, I don't care too much.-- 70.79.204.95 ( talk) 15:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
...you need reprogramming. I was repairing damage that someone else had done to the Fouke article. 65.163.115.254 ( talk) 04:56, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for my total lack of Wiki experience! Thanks for following revision (BOT - Notifying 213.174.185.143 of reverted changes to Sonic Belligeranza (first warning)) I noticed the external link to myspace doesn't work because of a mistake in the url: an / more at the end of the url. Can you remove it or is better that I do myself? Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.174.185.143 ( talk) 13:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Dear Sir/madam
In Student-centered_learning, would you agree to allow the following link to be included under External Links? Children First: the case for child-centred education. The website (of which I am NOT the author!)includes a paper discussing the practical experience of applying a child-centred approach to learning in the Primary school as well as a video of the approach in action. I think it is both relevant to the article and would be interesting for visitors to the page.
Yours sincerely MargyW ( talk) 08:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
The external link I added on the Ace Hood page was not advertising or spam, and it was his MySpace link. Many other articles have rappers' MySpace links, so I was simply adding Ace's. Sorry if I wasn't supposed to, I was only trying to help. ♣ ℳakaveli ♣ Talk ♣ 04:46, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
add http://youtube.com/watch?v=0vC9taroEsI&feature=related ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.90.238 ( talk) 03:20, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
All i did was add an external link (of the trailer) for a movie, Big Wednesday. I don't understand why it was reverted, and in fact am getting a little upset that when I make small improvements so often that their squelched by some random computer. can this be reverted back or should I just bloody give up on helping the Wikipedia project? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.133.108.219 ( talk) 13:30, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
"There is not a blanket ban on linking to" YouTube, Google Video, and similar sites Wikipedia:External_links#Linking_to_YouTube.2C_Google_Video.2C_and_similar_sites, yet the bot removes links and warns the users automatically. It is a good way to violate WP:Bite and drive away new users. Although these links may be spam (I'd agree in most cases that it is), it is not necessarily so and think there must be some way to fix this on the bot. 66.177.175.115 ( talk) 17:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I added links to the Wayne County Chamber of commerce with Tour de Wayne information which is an annual event hosted in Wayne County, they were reverted. Why?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.52.232.147 ( talk) 21:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
i am sorry i did not know that and was just trying to add as much info about him as i coul. please remove the links you feel are bad but please re enter all the other info i gave about him.
bloodline —Preceding unsigned comment added by BloodLine Video ( talk • contribs) 22:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
The two YouTube external links I attempted to add into the Roswell crash section...are genuine videos of interviews I conducted with Beverley Beanm who father was a soldier at Roswell air base in 1947. I own the copyright to these interviews, and I thought Wikipedia would be a good site to share these authentic interviews with a relative of a genuine witness to Roswell - Nabil Shaban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjS3sC6dmnw http://www.youtube.com/v/usLDpin6G-Y —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.44.38 ( talk) 18:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, the myspace account for the artist formally known as Violet Blue has been deleted pursuant to the lawsuit. I am now known by Noname Jane and I have a new myspace page to reflect that, which is why I changed the myspace page for me aka Violet Blue aka Noname Jane to www.myspace.com/noname_jane. I'd appreciate it if you don't change it back to www.myspace.com/violet_blue because that is a dead link. Thanks! Love, Noname Jane —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.7.140 ( talk) 20:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
the music link to the bowery boys was only added so fans had a chance of contacting each other - again there are not many bowery boys sites on the internet. So I don't understand why these have been edited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.219.41 ( talk) 00:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
This revert was of a link I added to an ongoing comparison of three popular distributed revision control systems. It looks quite useful and relevant to the Comparison of revision control software article to me; it's really primary research, and blogspot.com is just used as a convenient place to hold the information and receive feedback.
On the other hand, I also understand the general policy that blogs are of questionable provenance, and the value has to be high enough to overcome the cost of clutter. But such comparisons of actively developed software grow stale quickly, so current (June 2008) information is extremely valuable.
I'm not quite certain enough to just override the bot, but could someone else please review the matter and render a tiebreaking opinion? Thank you. 71.41.210.146 ( talk) 06:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
This edit reverted all of the edits made by 65.60.138.17 (many of which were valid), not just the last edit containing the blogspot.com link. I have already reverted to an intermediate version. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I did not intend to break rules by changing the link to the Richard Biggs tribute video. The link I posted was to the Youtube page that had the same video. The only difference was that the Youtube video loaded faster. My intention was to give impatient surfers quicker access to the video. It was *NOT* to provide access to spam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.202.40 ( talk) 02:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Whomever you are, please stop acting idiotic by reverting links put in the above article. Those video links do not fit in any of the filmsy excuses you list in desperation to justify your vandalism. The link is a historic political video of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, for reference purposes, directly relevant, appropriate and with great intellectual value (where you stumble). Do not fartz about in this page again. 64.179.16.177 ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I added a citation to Character (computing) where the text says "citation needed". Unfortunately, the source is the Google Blog, which is on blogspot, so the change was reverted. Can some Wikipedia user please redo my change? ( [8]) 213.39.218.170 ( talk) 10:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I added a myspace link in regard to Dick Tiger. It was apparently barred. The page itself is the biggest repository of information of information on the subject matter on the web. It contains photographs and links to audio and written materials on the World Wide Web. It is utterly ludicrous to bar this page given that it surpasses the link which claims to have the most photos on Dick Tiger on the web and another which simply gives the address of a gymnasium run by a person who claims to have been his nephew! How does a gymnasium run by a purported relative add to an understanding of and provide vital information on the life of Dick Tiger? Can we please get our priorities right here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.85.185 ( talk) 12:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portugal_national_football_team&diff=218166307&oldid=218166258 doesn't really match the message your bot left http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:85.27.111.54&diff=cur -- 85.27.111.54 ( talk) 13:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I believe the external link I added to St Brigid of Kildare was valuable and information in terms of it being a link to photographs of the St Brigid's Well at Liscannor. Might it be re-instated? Clodagh831 Clodagh831 ( talk) 17:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
When I added a link to The Second Supper's official Myspace, the bot threw the baby out with the bathwater and reverted the entire article back to last week. There have been improvements on the page since then which make it far more relevant and current than the old one, and I will continue to improve upon it. Feel free to check the validity of the myspace address if you wish, and please keep the improvements made to the article. 68.113.253.202 ( talk) 05:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
hi again, as am new to wikipedia and this is my first article i accept your edit although i will probably need to go back and read the rules governing external links. i thought that this particular was ok. in any case, thanks for the alert. i'm learning all the time...
Shibuyacat ( talk) 07:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear XLinkBot,
I am working on succesfully creating my first page, Cedarvale. Please let me finish the page before you make more edits.\
Thanks
Due to continuous spam at the ref desks, I've added anontalk (dot) com to the list and logged it. Let me know if I've done this wrong or if more detail is required. Seraphim♥ Whipp 17:34, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
But why did all my text get deleted as well-- Airplane18 ( talk) 12:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
That is her official page and has been reflected as such in her article. 69.204.224.140 ( talk) 14:14, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
The Anti-Spam Barnstar | ||
For efficiently reverting yet another groups.yahoo.com link when it was re-inserted by a determined anon editor at Chronic lymphocytic leukemia yesterday. (I'd give you a cookie, but I'm not sure that the bot would eat it!) WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC) |
I have noticed that bots repetitively welcome users despite the fact that many have been around for a while. I know it's not my place to say this, but if a bot reverts an edit made by a vandal, their "welcome" message will not really help -- Maurice45 ( talk) 19:04, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I undid the removal of the myspace and facebook links on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Washburn. Those sites are run by Abigail and they represent her just in the same way a personal home page would do. I therefor believe that they are not spam but valueable places of information.
-- Krautmaster ( talk) 17:31, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
In User:XLinkBot/Reversion reasons, would you be able to change "imageshack.com" under the domain column to "imageshack.us"? imageshack.com ≠ imageshack.us, and the page is actually talking about the .us regex. Imageshack.com isn't on the blacklist anyway. And while I'm here, a request (though this probably isn't the place to put it). Your blacklist for imageshack (assuming I'm reading it right) disallows jpg, jpeg, gif, png, and svg filetypes. Imageshack, however, actually supports jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff, and swf filetypes. Any chance of modifying the blacklist (and the Reversion reasons subpage, which mentions the regex) to add the other filetypes? Dreaded Walrus t c 08:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
This bot should be blocked for violating WP:BITE. 82.46.8.90 ( talk) 10:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I wrote the morganville texas article i just didnt have an account when i did i immediatly made one after i wrote it check my IP i wrote that article please respond
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If you are going to keep example.com in your revert list, you should stop it from reverting edits like this which do not add links to the domain (which I agree makes no sense) but add references to it. Referring to example.com is an important encyclopedic practice in web-related topics. 89.240.60.228 ( talk) 20:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I saw you reverted my edits to Cuisine of Iceland, presumably because of a link to a blogspot.com site. Is there a general rule against Blogspot sites? The link was to the best site on Icelandic cuisine I could find in English, so it would be a bit of loss if it can't be included in the article under External links. -- Akigka ( talk) 02:35, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
This one. Seemed a valid edit to me. shreevatsa ( talk)
it's a link to Youtube, but video is composed of real footage, not object to copyright, and the soundtrack is by band Petrograd, an alternative punk band that has anti copyright policy, so I don't see a problem in puting a link there. Can you change it? I know that for many people who are interested in the topic would like to find that song. - vrbova4grana —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vrbova4grana ( talk • contribs) 01:51, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
The external link that I added to the United Planet Wiki page is a reputable site, as it is written and revised by the staff at United Planet. Please allow the external link http://unitedplanet.wordpress.com/
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertne ( talk • contribs) 15:54, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello! You have removed all my external and internal links in the article "Julie-Jane Myers". I'm sorry, I don't understand why the internal links were removed? Can I restore them or not? What was wrong with them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MadeTruly112 ( talk • contribs) 09:41, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
The other two links I added as references were from reputable newspapers and thus serve as a good source of information. Why were they deleted? Thanks.
- Alfonso129
The link I added to you tube is a documentry about gurning the subject the wikipedia entry was about it does not infringe the copywright because I produced the documentry I have tried to submit it 3 times —Preceding
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What was wrong with the BudLee edits? You reverted them? It is me i think ( talk) 22:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi XLinkBot
The clips I linked to on YouTube are for films I produced and own the copyright on. Is it OK to remove the bot? How do I do that?
Thanks Colemancreek ( talk) 23:21, 12 July 2008 (UTC) Peter Ladue
I reverted the bio of Peter Ladue because I own the films I linked to on YouTube. I did this so another reviewer who asked for major revisions could review the changes.
Sorry, but i have only copied the information from Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan. If the links were spam, I didn't know it. I think that the information could be write again but without this link, ok? Thank you.:)-- 83.180.216.14 ( talk) 09:32, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the "WMyW" low-power TV station W47CK ( MyTV, Shallotte) does use a MySpace page as its primary web presence. I'm getting multiple false-positives on this. -- 66.102.80.212 ( talk) 11:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
hey the recent edit to the omagh wiki page, which contained two links to the offical websites, which are not of a dot com, or dot co uk nature, but are on bebo and myspace.
they have been blocked and reported as spam, i wasnt fully aware of these sites being blocked, being cited as spam. may i please have them back on the page they were added to.
regards William —Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamconvey ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
This bot seems to be less finely tuned than others. Take a look here at the changes I made to Cataphract, changes this bot deemed to be vandalism. There must be characteristics of that edit which make it clear its not vandalism. For example, it's got an edit summary, it introduces the use of cite.php-based footnotes, it makes use of templates—all of these are decent clues even to a bot that we're not dealing with vandalism.
On the plus side, I can revert its actions without it getting into a revert war, so I guess I can put up with it. But please consider making this bot a bit smarter. Thanks. 72.244.203.164 ( talk) 01:49, 15 July 2008 (UTC).
Hi - I undid a change made by XLinkBot to the page Ladyfest. (NB the original edit was not me or anything to do with me.) Just thought I'd let you know that in my opinion the link out to a myspace is justified in this instance. Not sure if there's a way to let the bot know that. -- mcld ( talk) 16:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
In the bot warning about free host sites, "thorougly" should be "thoroughly". I've made a change showing this at User:XLinkBot/Customised warnings, but I wasn't sure if that was a live copy of the warnings, so I've mentioned the spelling error here. Graham 87 12:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Is London Elektricity's myspace considered an unwanted link, even though it is controlled by Colman himself? If so, let me know. I don't mean to be rude here, just want to ask a question. If myspace is not allowed to be cited, how else would I cite my information on his influences? Should I just delete the section? Can I cite a different source if I can find it? Thanks. DubCrazy ( talk) 20:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy
I dont see how this is classed as spam, I only linked to the facebook group as a source.
the band Bad Manner's official site is closed and the link is not-working, when i tried to add a link to their official myspace page i got a rejection
Good work on your part in the effort to eliminate extraneous links. However in this particular case you did not do your research or check in depth. The friendster loveboat2000 site is an alumni site for Taiwan studytour participants like some of the others. If you look and read closely to the message board there are testimonials to the tour's impact and there is absolutely no spam nor is it used for advertising. It is further evidence of the many people who had a significant cultural experience when going to Taiwan on the tour. To delete such a link is to show a cultural insensitivity and an obtuse racial blindness to significance of these networking sites to the Overseas Chinese Community. Please continue your efforts to reduce spam and porn links on Wiki, but please also leave well meaning and appropriate links to sites such as these alone. Thank you.
Regarding the alteration of this page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Cruella_de_Ville&diff=205995108&oldid=205995092)
The CDV Wikipedia page is the ONLY up to date information site for the band...!
I included the list for videos availble on YouTube as factual information (as well as showing what few video performances of the band have survived)... and the link to facebook was only added so fans had a chance of contacting each other - again there are not many CDV sites on the internet.
So I don't understand why these have been edited... especially the video list
PLUS you've reverted to a version the contains a link to the CDV "Stage 6" webpage... Stage6 has closed down so the link was removed.
James (a CDV fan in contact with Philomena & Colum Muinzer of CDV)
Hello,
I recently entered information for a new entry. How do I ensure that this entry, which was for one of my favourite bands becomes visible when people search for their name on google. Basically I want the wikipedia entry to be one of the first results on a google search like it is for most other bands. Please help!
( IvyriseNumber1Fan ( talk) 19:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)).
Hi XLinkBot,
My IP just got a message from you - something about an inappropriate link and a "welcome to Wikipedia." I'm actually not a new user. I forgot to log in. My user name is ask123. I was working on an article I just came across, Powered exoskeleton, that needs a ton of work (to say the least). I just found the article, and it's in awful shape. I'm thinking about just rewriting the whole thing entirely. It's in violation of Wiki policies left and right and just reads terribly. I started placing some tags for original research, weasel words, citations missing, etc., but that's just going to prolong the ultimate prescription for this page's problems: a total rewrite.
In any event, I'm writing you just to let you know that, in the process of figuring out what to do with the page, I cut and pasted some things around as I moved down the article section by section. One of the things I cut from a text section and pasted (temporarily) into the external links section was a crappy link to youtube. For some reason, someone put this random link smack in the middle of the text. I'm ultimately going to delete the link anyway, along with most of the other links in the article, when I have a chance to get to the links section and examine each one individually per Wiki policy. But rest assured, I didn't add that link to the page; It was already there. And I just moved to another place temporarily. If you read the edit history in detail, you will see this to be the case. As I make my way through the article, I'll eventually get to the external links section and will probably end up deleting half of the links anyway per Wiki policy.
So the point is that, while I respect your sentiment and due dilligence, there's really no need to send me this or like messages in the future. I'm well aware of Wiki's external links policy (and other policies). However, simply put, I can't fix the entire article at once. I can only work on one section at a time. So, sometimes, I have to move a sentence (or, in this case, a link) temporarily to another section, with the goal of getting to it later. As I'm sure you know, this is not uncommon in the process of editing an article. It's just the reality.
Thanks for understanding. Cheers, ask123 ( talk) 05:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. In [9] the bot undos an edit from a anon. The undone edit was one that changed a link with a referrer to one that's without. This seems to me to be counter to the bot stated purpose, so I thought you might want to look at it. Taemyr ( talk) 12:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to point out this edit and say that you may want to expand your whitelist a little. Looks like you've missed at least one Myspace page that's unlikely to be spam. Maratanos ( talk) 00:26, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to have a bot automatically remove "YouTube Celebrity Trent from punchy" from the Punchbowl, New South Wales article. This seems to be a constant problem and some editors who contribute a lot to the Sydney suburban articles are becoming frustrated with trent. Also the same person adds a weblink to his You tube video about Punchbowl, I noticed that your bot removed this. Cheers Adam ( talk) 08:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I know that it is possible to blacklist a certain link but is it possible to blacklist a phrase like trent from punchy and have a bot remove it when it is inserted. Adam ( talk) 23:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
The User page says "one should not link to (likely) copyrighted information". This is surely wrong. It should read something like "one should not link to sites that contain (likely) copyright infringements". -- Bduke ( talk) 23:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
You have reversed all my edits - this was because the Link to the Fight for Flights campaign is a blog. THEY KEEP A BLOG AS IT IS EASIER TO MAINTAIN THAN A WEB PAGE and buying up domain names.
Can you revert your edits. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.178.90 ( talk) 11:28, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Wait a minute, the way you are linking to that blog is certainly not the way to go. If the blog is notable, it needs an own wikipedia page, and should not be linked in the text. Also, you may want to have a look at WP:NOT#SOAPBOX, that we are not here to promote propaganda. Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering why your bot does rollback-ish reverts, and not just undoing the one "bad" edit? Here is one example of what I'm talking about. The ip editor did at least one good edit in that series by adding a category and removing the uncat template.-- Rockfang ( talk) 21:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
When you put the automated message on someone's talk page, one of the sentences is:
“ | Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. | ” |
It's just that "creators" needs an apostrophe before the "s". Happy editing! :) Green caterpillar ( talk) 12:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. (See MIM history.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.214.138 ( talk) 14:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
What the hell are you talking about? How was I soapboxing? I was adding info to an article. There's no rule that says I have to know how to make it pretty. That's for people like you who care about that sort of thing. Your bot did something stupid, don't get all defensive about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.214.138 ( talk) 15:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
The blogger billmon switched back from using his own domain (billmon.org) to using billmon.dailykos.com this summer. While dailykos.com diaries aren't generally a reliable source, doesn't it make sense to link to where the fellow posts his writing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smptq ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the Eula Beal page. I'll remember that next time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.83.114 ( talk) 23:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a bug with this bot - a minor one, perhaps, but it's caused a user to complain: On [10] and [11], not only does the bot revert the MySpace link, but it also removes a (legitimate) wikilink to Rebel Road. Oddly enough, there were two edits: One to add a link ( [12]) and one two add the MySpace link ( [13]); and then again ( [14]; [15]). Also, could the MySpace be whitelisted for the article? Thanks. x42bn6 Talk Mess 22:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
If I could, I would, because I can't USE the upload bar anymore. Only Admins can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Bugs Bunny ( talk • contribs) 21:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
myspace.com/sehbahdough is the correct myspace page for Sebadoh. it is NOT myspace.com/sebadoh as was modified by the bot. Arleach ( talk) 03:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
-- Serajulhaque ( talk) 12:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC) Martung is a small town/village of Shangla District. No information about MArtung other than its location, population and area is mentioned anywhere in any encyclopedia. I was born at MArtung and have been living there since my birth. The general information about the people of Martung, their habits, their life style and the crops they grow may not be directly verified from any written source; but these could however be verified by studying the nearby (almost similar) areas like Puran and Chakesar. Area, population etc. have alreday been reffered to the sources. The link which was lastly deleted by the current user was reffering a book written in Urdu by an author Mehmood Fazal, Rokhan. The URL reffered contained the introduction of the book and had image of the title page. This book has little information about Martung, and much about a religious scholar already mentioned in the article. I still think that the reference was not totally irrelevant and may kindly be left undeleted.
I therefor undo the last action and welcome your comments.
I am new user and am not familiar to the general rules how to edit and how to talk to a user. Please ignor my mistake if any.
Thanks a lot.
-- Serajulhaque ( talk) 12:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I don't understand why this myspace link is deleted: www.myspace.com/olgashishkina A page is about a great gusli artist so this link certainly CONCERNS the topic, or am I wrong? I undo the bot's revision but it continues deleting the link. Thanks for understanding, -- Guslimusic ( talk) 14:55, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Your bot reverted my link to Jon Lajoie's OFFICIAL youtube account. I understand why youtube is on your bot's list, to avoid people linking to their own or inappropriate accounts, but since it is official, and appropriate to the article, I am undoing the undoing of it. ZXS9465 ( talk) 14:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC) The page is here if you wish to check it. ZXS9465 ( talk) 14:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what happened here. The Bot removed a single space and the {{ hangon}} template but left the myspace link in. Jons63 ( talk) 06:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi I am adding some links to the periodic table of videos for each element on wikipedia to the relevant video on youtube - please see
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p2cicHXMs1w
as an example
I have full permission from the owner of the video
R —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richnotts ( talk • contribs) 22:16, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
There may be a bug with this bot. The edit summary and the user warning done by it for this revert indicate it was just reverting the addition of an ext link to blogspot.com to Design Build Bluff, but it reverted a lot more. I added back the rest of the edits without the blogspot.com link, but thought I should report this. -- 208.81.184.4 ( talk)
I included a link in a small piece I wrote that was automatically deleted. I think this was because it had typepad in it and that may mean that it links to youtube. The site is not abusing copyrighted material. It is a great sight and very relevant to the short addition. It would not be difficult for a reader to google and find the link without it being in the piece but it might be nice to have it right at hand.( Skaboooch ( talk) 01:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC))
Your userpage reads "conlfict of interest" ;) -- Quiddity ( talk) 21:38, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
The http://xoomer.alice.it/www_enigma : This link is the correct link. This is the first electronic enigma machine to the world. The complete project has been published on the magazine FARE ELETTRONICA April 2002 N°202. No one has never published a project equipped with an electronic enigma machine before with a microprocessor. My link the enigma machine subject has the right to be added to Wikipedia as pertaining. This is my e-mail if you want to contact me for clarifications : www_enigma@lycos.it The Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EUYbI1q1y4 is a My Youtube Link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.2.209.34 ( talk) 00:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
I updated a musicians Wikipedia page and inserted links to her MySpace and Facebook Page. I also added two paragraphs. The entire entry was removed by this bot because of the Facebook link. Why would the whole thing get removed? And why should MySpace Pages be allowed and not Facebook Pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickt83 ( talk • contribs) 01:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickbooks Subsequent releases
This was a rather significant update, requuiring substantial time. I did not understand how to revert and appeal the removal of it. However, I also did not need the link to my http://1234567890.typepad.com/ QuickBooks blog, especially as I understood the "no follow" nature of them. I most respectfully submit that the remaining external links, which are not related to me, have needed citations. Therefore, I thoroughly revised the entry, removing personal opinions and references.
MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA ( talk) 21:24, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, you have mistakenly reverted all my edits. The entire article includes links to youtube videos to make it more informative and give the reader a visual grasp of how exactly the mark took place. I have reverted your edit, becuase you rollbacked all 7 of my previous edits. -- Superflewis ( talk) 01:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Gary Randall was born in Mt. Carmel, Il. I, Diana Randall was merely wanting to place a reference to this as a "stated" fact and that he also has written and published a book about growing up in rural Wabash County.. Anything that I wrote pertained to that fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Af4lg ( talk • contribs) 06:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Please, it does not remove the information that it knows to be correct, this is vandalism. Trigonometrical, simulator Abacus of the great circle—Preceding unsigned comment added by 3sigmain ( talk • contribs)
Yes, I am married to Gary Randall. But long before we met I was his editor. I aided in the processess to ready his second book before publication.
Just do something simiple before you make a final decision.
Do a web search for "Gary Randall author, Tales out of Life. You will find enough information to prove that he is a "published author" & that the book is about growing up in Southern Illinois. If you have access to Mt Carmel's school records you will find he did graduate from that same school. I find that your judgement in this cause is HIGHLY judgemental and based on ignorance of the facts. It is quite factual that Gary Randall published "Tales Out of Life" in 2000 and you have failed to add a notable mention on his hometown page via Wikipedia.
If doing a simple web search doesn't work for you, just check the publishers XLibris & Publish America.
Yes, I've not done anything worthy of note other than to marry him and continue to edit upcoming books. I am a college graduate in the educational field. Don't judge me lightly either. Sometimes just being a member of the masses out here doesn't mean I am stupid. Just a member of the masses that doesn't find that your web site is that informative. There are other sources.
I will continue to create web pages for him and make other contacts via the path of the internet information system.
Diana Randall, a mere resident of the masses.
—Preceding
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Hello, please fix your bot. This is currently the official page of the Cornerstone Group faction. - Marching Forward ( talk) 08:36, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
I attempted to add a link of Bob Somerby's page, it seems it was reverted because it came from my blogspot blog. I interviewed Bob Somerby in May of 2006 and I think it adds great value to the wikipedia article. http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2006/05/bob-somerby-talks-about-journalism.html
as far as I know, there aren't many interviews with Somerby, so I think Wikipedia readers would be interested. The same goes for my interview with Fred Thomas of MHz Networks in July 2006 http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2006/07/fred-thomas-talks-about-mhz-networks.html
PrestoVivaceBlog PrestoVivaceBlog ( talk) 02:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
This revert by XLinkBot on the
Girls (Sugababes song) article is very wrong. It should have undone one edit by 77.162.90.44, instead it reverted "to revision 82", which made the article look like this:
[16]
I have no idea where it got that data, but something seems very wrong – if not with the bot then with the API. Can you investigate this?
Cheers,
Amalthea
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18:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
It apparently is *not* quite fixed: [17]. -- Amalthea Talk 17:46, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Odd diff, reverted; originally posted here. [18] x42bn6 Talk Mess 20:23, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Xlinkbot,
You deleted my edits almost immediately.
Is there a reason?
I looked at Swatchman and agreed with you.
If there is a coi, is this personal? Do you know the director?
Many thanks and God bless,
Noblewoman7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noblewoman7 ( talk • contribs) 06:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Holy cow, I got a "new messages" thingie, so I clicked on it, and there were a whole slew of angry wikipedia admin slamming me for things I didn't edit!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.54.22.188 ( talk) 22:54, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I noticed this edit when checking CSD templates i placed: Image. Note that i made a screenshot instead of a linking a diff for the simply reason the article is likely to be removed. What i see is that the bot appears to revert an edit because of the [http://www.example.com link title] link, yet does not take into account the rest of the edit. I assume that this is a small bug? :) Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs) 15:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I edited the page on Uche Nwaneri in order to detail a disciplinary/legal incident that occurred during his time at Purdue, but had to link to blog posts of articles from the Purdue Exponent since the Exponent's search is down. I'm not versed in Wikipedia enough to understand how to better cite these, and was wondering if somebody could clear that up and reinstate my edits with either better sources or generally help me clean things up.
98.220.222.67 ( talk) 04:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Please see the relavent AN thread. Thanks! NuclearWarfare contact me My work 15:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, your bot recently undid an edit to the article " Paul Oscar" by another editor who had inserted a link to a YouTube video. However, I note that the video appears to be an officially sanctioned one that appears on Paul Oscar's YouTube channel Thisispauloscar. Should an exception be made in this case and, if so, can your bot distinguish between YouTube videos that are official and those that breach copyright? — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 08:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Right, thanks for the clarification. — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 02:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I tried to add the recent Georgia Senate Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll to the appropriate page, United States Senate election in Georgia, 2008 but it was reverted because the URL is from Daily Kos. While I agree that Daily Kos should not be cited for news, they commissioned this non-partisan poll, and therefore they published the results on their website. Research 2000 is considered non-partisan, and has been used by newspapers, such as the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Reno Gazette.
There is partisan talk on the page, but the poll numbers should be included. Research 2000
Muboshgu ( talk) 14:10, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User talk:Shayne.soderstrom, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
hangon}}
to the top of
the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:User talk:Shayne.soderstrom|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact
one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you.
TallNapoleon (
talk)
05:26, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
??? Why do you notify this bot of that? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
My name is Charles Martin Cosgriff. i am trying to link my blog to my Wikipedia entry. The blog is mine, with all material copyrighted by me. Can i do this?
Thanks, Marty cosgriff---- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wickandroll ( talk • contribs) 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
Although I did try to insert a blogspot site link, while not being aware that this might be unacceptable, I honestly do believe I should be considered to be a "reliable source", according to your criteria, for a number of reasons I hope you will research (subject of a book and documentary about my primate work etc.) and would like to discuss why our website link was reverted. Another point I'd like to make that any website connected to the agricultural or biomedical sectors could be considered as belonging to a group that are unlikely to act in the best interests of the baboon and therefore are not immune to offering propaganda, (because baboons are widely used in biomedical research and it is in the interests of this scientific sector to ensure they are seen to be unthreatened. The agricultural sector regards the baboon as a "problem animal", treats this species as vermin, and makes profit a priority at the expense of the environment. Due to these factors, I feel that Wikipedia would gain much relevant information by being open to primatologists who work hands on with this species, whether they are backed by a degree or not. If possible, could you visit the blog site I added to see it for yourself? In no way does it infringe on copyright and is an educational insight into the baboon.
The information I did post about South African legislation can be verified on the D.E.A.T website. Amazingwe ( talk) 11:51, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
"www.pbase.com/plusiotis/image/102517347" Tried to add a link to a photo of my pair of extinct British Large Copper butterflies (Lycaena dispar dispar) .. but to no avail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.168.174.18 ( talk) 19:58, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I re-wrote and extended the article on Henrik Schyffert yesterday. When this bot removed a link to a YouTube clip which I had added, the entire article was reverted.
I undid this reversion and removed the YouTube link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.211.18.71 ( talk) 13:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
I did not appreciate the removal of the video link on the
Jetix article. I want Jetix to stay in the US.
~~
LDEJRuff~~ (
see what I've contributed) 13:32, 16 October 2008 (EDT)
Can the "Mirror, Mirror" page be recreated after the Desperate Housewives episode airs on ABC this Sunday? AdamDeanHall ( talk) 15:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
This edit from earlier this month appears to be completely wrong - [19] - the link added by the IP appears to be the correct one. Exxolon ( talk) 21:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
those changes are not spams please stop changing them back —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trueshiet ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
URLs like http://www.sexy-lena.com/en/?uid=409353 should probably be prohibited here. — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 05:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
The bot reverted a contribution to Northern Spotted Owl because it violated the rule \bdefenders\.org\b. Please consider the source of the blacklist request. I believe as a source, Defenders of Wildlife, is reliable as most web sources. For this reason I will reverted the revision. -- DRoll ( talk) 22:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
The edit that I made here with the about.com website link does follow the guidelines for external links.
I feel that this rule is very restrictive as it stops people who geneuinely stops the addition of some good content. My understanding is that 110mb.com offers free hosting only, so why penalise just for that? I found a good source in http://mesothelioma-advice.110mb.com, but XLinkBot decided to remove it from Mesothelioma.
Dear XLinkBot,
I'm Liam Sharp. I'm trying to update my own page on this site - which has, I've noticed, not only lost the photo of myself (which I didn't post) but the inserted Mam Tor publishing logo, (which I also didn't post here, but is - I would have thought - certainly relevant, and not spam or self promotion). Here, though, I'm in a bit of a predicament, as genuine updates regarding what I do and who I am seem to be constantly removed. The ones I'm referring too are this: http://machivariuspoint.weebly.com/ which is a gallery site of illustrations from my new novel 'God Killers'. I accept that may seem like self-promotion, but it's entirely legitimate news, and it's free - as is the link to the Beardist site - http://beardism.weebly.com/index.html - a genuine collection of art works that people interested in my work would want to know about, and not commercial in any way, so neither spam nor sales.
I also wished to remove some old pieces, and add Beardist art to the Beardism page, as it directly relates.
Many thanks for your help.
Kind regards,
Liam.
Liam Sharp ( talk) 20:38, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Cheers Dirk.
Absolutely, I'm completely aware that you're not here to promote me. I was very surprised to find out I even had a page here, though naturally delighted. The problem I'm having is that often people wishing to find out about me for events will cite this Wikipedia page, and that not only fails to show what I'm currently working on (The novel, gallery, Beardist art movement as examples) but also has not updated current forums, etc. Thankfully the old ones have at least come down. It's other people who are requesting me to update the page, and wondering where my photo has gone. I'm just trying to help update that information.
Again, very best,
Liam.
Liam Sharp ( talk) 10:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
[ [20] I have replaced the blogspot link and inserted the original US air-force source PDF referenced in that article instead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.113.41 ( talk) 23:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Your bot reverted a link I added to this page while logged out, you might want to work on its parameters. -- Xero ( talk) 19:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, sorry!! I didn't sign in:-). I created the page so I was justing adding a link to what we look upon as our homepage(I play for the club). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.41.235 ( talk) 21:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Ola, Versageek. I notice that XLinkBot currently reverses edits that add and any and all links to facebook.com. While the Manual of Style recommends against linking to sites that require registration, FB "pages" are still visible if one is not logged in, and according to FB policies, they are supposed to be created and maintained only by official representatives of the subject of the page. Facebook's policy states:
So ... I believe your regex list could be cleaned up a bit. Here's my suggestion:
This will allow pages that match \bfacebook.com/pages/ which are supposed to be legitimate.
What do you think?
-- ◉ ghoti 14:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Regarding
this edit, could you please whitelist this domain (jeff560.tripod.com
). Note that the AOL links that XLinkBot restored don't work. --
Zundark (
talk)
11:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Discussion transferred to
User:XLinkBot/Analysis. --
Dirk Beetstra
T
C
16:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided section's first statement is an exception: "Except for a link to an official page of the article's subject". I examined the last 20 "myspace" related edits of this bot and have these statistics: of the 20 edits 8 were unofficial pages and 12 were official pages. However, when examining bot reverts made to edits specifically placed in sections entitled "External links" then included were all 12 official pages and only 4 unofficial pages. This is a ratio of 3:1 unnecessary reverts. My proposition is to specify a command for the bot to allow edits which include "myspace" to remain when they are under a section "External links". Would this be possible? - Steve3849 talk 11:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
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bank.africa.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Note that africa.com appears to sell their subdomains, so listing "africa.com" would be bad.
IPs have repeatedly replaced the homepages in the infoboxes of African banks with "bank.africa.com". Coincidentally, the bank.africa.com domain is being sold for an absurd amount of money, (according to bank.africa.com, at least) and has absolutely no connection to any of these banks. The spamming has persisted after three blocks. Sunmist ( talk) 09:22, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
IPs
90.174.2.53 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
90.174.2.105 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
81.0.28.164 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
46.6.99.104 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • Spamcheck • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • RDNS • tracert • robtex.com • StopForumSpam • Google • AboutUs • Project HoneyPot)
These sites are respectively a fansite and a blog and are mainly being used as sources to provide statistical information about living people. I have tried removing them in the past but they have proliferated to such an extent it is impossible to tackle it manually. Both websites contravene WP:SPS and an RFC at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Snooker#RfC: Does the use of self-published sources in snooker articles violate BLPSPS and SPS? concurred with this interpretation. It was suggested at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Snooker fansites/blogs that XLinkBot might be an appropriate solution to the problem. Betty Logan ( talk) 03:57, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Link added to multiple article by IP users only (see contributions of linked IP users), hoping this works rather than blacklisting. Ravensfire ( talk) 18:45, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
This fansite is mainly being used by IPs, new and inexperienced users to source the arrivals and departures of actors from the Australian television show Home and Away. The site itself acknowledges that not all of their arrival/departure information is confirmed. Most of the links are added to List of current Home and Away characters (some recent examples: [21], [22], [23], [24]) and the character's individual articles ( [25]), but I've noticed that it's also creeping into the actors' articles too ( [26]), which could be a BLP issue. I feel like I'm removing links to the site almost every week now. There are (eventually) more reliable sources available to back up any arrival or departure information. - JuneGloom07 Talk 21:43, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/newsbytesapp.com is long and the copyvio/refspam problem persists. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam filing was archived without action, but correctly notes that the site is low-value. Not sure if it's at the level of blacklisting altogether (but no objection to going that route instead of XLinkBot). DMacks ( talk) 13:33, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
I think it would be reasonable to revertlist these, as they are being added all the time. Additions are, no doubt, in good faith, but the sites are not appropriate as sources. Guy ( Help!) 11:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Sites promoting bogus medical ideas, fail WP:MEDRS and WP:RS generally, routinely reverted but still being naively (and occasionally abusively) added. Guy ( Help!) 11:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
The first link was started by Special:Contributions/Imran0336. Second and third were added by Special:Contributions/Kamrankhan12 (second one also by many IPs) in 2018 Pakistan Super League. Please note that official website for PSL is http://www.psl-t20.com so the above mentioned links are either mirror or just spam (first, second and fourth). The fifth one may be a YouTuber, who seems to be promoting his work on wikipedia. Also, note these official websites http://multansultans.com/ and http://www.quettagladiators.com/ so other links (third and sixth) with similar name should be considered as spam. Thanks! :) M. Billoo 09:48, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
As requested by user:GermanJoe on my talkpage (see track). Heavily spammed, though with some use. — Dirk Beetstra T C 18:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Unreliable PR platform mostly used by inexperienced and COI editors for promotional editing about borderline-notable products. See also COIBot report for more details. Mostly not outright "spam", but the overwhelming majority of links are inappropriate and/or promotional. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:53, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
discogs.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Please add
Discogs (discogs.com
) to
User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. A
February RfC shows support for adding Discogs to this list as a frequently misued collection of
user-generated content. There was consensus against
deprecating the source by implementing an
edit filter because most editors considered Discogs to be appropriate for
external links, similar to
IMDb. —
Newslinger
talk
00:50, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Cutler has been spamming Wikipedia for years (and recently simple as well) with what amounts to a conspiracy laden rant (see this most recent version). The first couple of sentences change, but after that it's usually the same crap. He's recently increased his activity level to the point it's getting annoying. Several articles are common targets (see the history of Jonathan Luna), but others have little to no pattern. His posts generally have links to a couple of sites, so I'm wondering if XLinkBot is a viable option for an initial approach. An edit filter would also work well, as there are several common phrases (names, court numbers) that could be used, but that seems a fairly heavy hammer that may not be needed. Would someone mind seeing if this is viable, or let me know if the edit filter would be the best approach? Appreciate any time and assistance. Ravensfire ( talk) 23:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Ravensfire: is this about honorstates.org? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
I do think that an edit filter is more functional here, catch typical phrases and the typical articles and block them. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 18:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
crunchbase.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
Please add
Crunchbase (crunchbase.com
) to
User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. A
March RfC shows consensus for adding Crunchbase to this list as a frequently misued collection of
user-generated content. Most editors opposed implementing an
edit filter because they considered Crunchbase to be appropriate for
external links, similar to
IMDb. —
Newslinger
talk
00:50, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
A recently closed RfC shows consensus to add IMDb to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. I'm requesting the addition of the affected domain. — Newslinger talk 05:54, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
blogsareforever.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com A newly user running the same name as this site has been spamming it on numerous articles over the last couple of days. See Diffs:
The site has been used as a, non- WP:RS, source in a number of articles and has been reverted each time. Please add to the list. -- Blackmane ( talk) 03:35, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Spamming from what appears to by a dynamic ip, since Nov '12. -- Ronz ( talk) 21:22, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Slow edit-warring from ip's since December 2012. The link being added not only isn't a reliable source, it doesn't verify any of the information. The only editor that's responded to the discussions about this does not dispute this. -- Ronz ( talk) 22:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Link constantly re-added by various IP addresses since November 19, 2011. The link itself was discussed during the Kent, Ohio article's FAC process and determined to not fall within the WP:EL guidelines since it is not an official website of the city ( it is run by a private individual) and is not a reliable source. It is also commercial in nature. Attempts to contact the IP users directly or via the article talk page have gone unanswered and the article has been semi-protected three times in the past year and a half. No other contributions to the article have been made by the IP users, just re-adding the link to the External links section. -- JonRidinger ( talk) 19:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Repeated additions of this - apparently, as I can't check it from a work machine - porn site link by at least 5 IP users I have been able to ID (only other reference I could find in a search was at Talk:Smoking fetishism requesting it be removed from the article in May of this year). User(s) using formatting in a - poorly executed - attempt at deception to masquerade it as a link to a government survey. besieged talk 00:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
46.27.137.237 was blocked two weeks ago. Now the two other ip's have been adding the link. -- Ronz ( talk) 15:58, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
User exhibits pattern of adding same website – see contribs (edits 13:18, 3 July 2014 & before – afterwards user switched to talk pages & got indef blocked). Also exhibited by 203.201.61.146 and 27.34.253.98. Outside of these edits, I found the website only two other times, added by IPs ( 59.182.247.79, 122.172.35.71) in 2012. I've gone ahead and removed site since it is not WP:RS. Per Tinaiyer1976 (see Draft:EKhichdi.com) website lets anyone post 'news' and articles. Going to website, it seems to confirm Tinaiyer1976 statement. Thus site should not be allowed as reference or external link on Wikipedia. Thanks, Kirin13 ( talk) 01:29, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
WP:LINKVIO. From inception through June 2012, TV Tropes used CC BY-SA, much like Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia. But in July 2012, TV Tropes unilaterally switched to the incompatible CC BY-NC-SA license. I'm no lawyer, but it looks like TV Tropes has been distributing the work of its pre-2012 contributors in violation of copyright for the past two years. -- Damian Yerrick ( talk) 21:21, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Even for LINKVIO we do not regularly blacklist (only in extreme cases with reasonable abuse). Also here the question: is there any abuse by editors adding it to Wikipedia? -- Dirk Beetstra T C 11:57, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
There are 8 deprecated sources that have been established as highly unreliable through RfCs, but are currently not edit filtered due to technical limitations/concerns. These discussions provide more context:
The other 6 deprecated sources have already been added to User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList. 5 of these 6 sources are also on User:XLinkBot/RevertList (with Discogs excluded to allow external links per RfC consensus).
I'm requesting the addition of these remaining 8 sources (comprising 13 domains) to User:XLinkBot/RevertList and User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList, which also target highly questionable sources, but do not have the same technicial concerns. — Newslinger talk 22:52, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Repeatedly inserts this domain masquerading as the official William Hill domain then redirects to the official one using an affiliate tag in order to make money. Very persistent.
[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
This site has at least one editor here who's a fan and who persistently adds ref links to this site, despite the fact that it's an anonymously-run news-mockery site that appears to be either associated with or run by a fan of
Fark. Some of the things that come through this site might be true, but would always need to be sourced to the underlying genuine source mentioned in the article, if the genuine source is indeed mentioned at all.
Zad
68
03:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Newly established editor user:Ellisnyc has added links explicitly from this website since 9 April. Beagel ( talk) 15:06, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Already listed on the revert list, but needs to be added to User:XLinkBot/OverrideList as inappropriate edits referencing it are being added. [39] [40] [41] and many more, just see my recent edits. Most have been added in good faith by IPs and new users.-- Otterathome ( talk) 12:07, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Persistent and sneaky citation spamming. [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] Regards, James( talk/ contribs) 18:46, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
Spammed. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 06:43, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
As noted at the Reliable Source Noticeboard here, EthniCelebs.com in its own Terms of Service says:
The information on Ethnicelebs is provided for entertainment purposes only. Although we may vet information to ensure its accuracy, we make no assurances that all information on our Site is accurate. You agree that you will not rely on our Service for any purposes which could result in a loss to you if our Service did not perform as expected and, in any event, you hereby release Ethnicelebs from any liability relating to our Service.
Despite this, Wikipedia has many links to, by its own admission, a non- WP:RS site. There doesn't seem any reason to ever use it, and editors at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist suggested it would be a candidate for XLinkBot. Placing it on the bot would save a lot of editors an enormous amount of time, and more importantly, help keep biographical articles up to WP:BLP standards. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 21:23, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Very old, SPI that precipitated this revertlisting has not seen new cases for over 5 years now, and as @ MER-C: was originally saying, it is a worthwile source. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 03:23, 19 June 2017 (UTC)