User talk:Alan7483

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January 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Kate Robbins has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Ro9BSaatCo. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 01:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Kate Robbins, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 01:29, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2013[edit]

Hello, I'm C.Fred. Your recent edit to the page Kate Robbins appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The BFI website you are citing shows a 1958 date of birth. Articles need to reflect what's actually published in the source, not corrections that you claim should be made. —C.Fred (talk) 01:21, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Kate Robbins with this edit. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Eye snore 01:27, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is the confirmation I had from BFI

Gabriele Popp <Gabriele.Popp@bfi.org.uk> 01/06/2011

to me, Paul Dear Steve,

Many thanks for your email regards correcting the information the BFI holds on the singer Kate Robbins.

We have now updated our internal database accordingly and changed her birth year as advised. This information will be available to BFI staff and researchers in our library reading room.

The BFI is currently in the process of upgrading its website and we are unable to update the online version of the database, so any internal changes will not automatically become visible online until the new bfi.org.uk website will be launched later this summer.

Hope this explains the situation.

Best wishes, Gabriele

Gabriele Popp | Head of Information, BFI 21 Stephen Street | London W1T 1LN tel: +44 (0)20 7957 4788 | http://www.bfi.org.uk

citation references from

Gabriele.Popp@bfi.org.uk Paul.Richardson@bfi.ork.uk katerobbins@gmx.com

Hi Alan. I see that you are very new here. I'm sorry if you have been offended by routine template messages from users, but like you, they were not to know that BFI, in spite of being a highly respected institute, may not a reliable source per WP:RS. I would guard against only using their database and, like the IMDB, it is probably best used in support of other sources. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kudpung, thank you for your comment. If only they had queried and let me provide the evidence then I would not have been offended, but happy to discuss as gentlemen. Alan7483 (talk) 01:36, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comprehension Alan. The English Wikipedia receives around 1,500 new pages every day and only about 6 - 9 users are patrolling them at any one time and about half the articles are slated for deletion by admins. Anyone can patrol new pages and if you wish, you are welcome to lend a hand - please see WP:NPP for what is involved, and its excellent software interface at Special:NewPagesFeed. Regards, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:31, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]