User talk:GeneticVariation

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April 2014[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 Sonnet 11 has been reverted.
Your edit here to Sonnet 11 was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gisE4TCDSVk) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page Sonnet 12, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links.
Your edit here to Sonnet 12 was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io5FGKl0ZfA) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 12:36, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Sonnet 13. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.
Your edit here to Sonnet 13 was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmggA_yeRAk) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 12:46, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Sonnet 14. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
Your edit here to Sonnet 14 was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKGlzQzdL_M) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 12:49, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Sonnet 15. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.
Your edit here to Sonnet 15 was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aom8f9xTU8g) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 12:53, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked?[edit]

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I was recently blocked by Nick, after XLinkBot automatically reverted all my edits. My edits were links to YouTube of audio recordings of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Linking to audio recordings of the piece the Wikipedia article is about is not unusual on Wikipedia (The Phoenix and the Turtle has one, Sonnet 18 links to a commercial song recording!). I feel that my edits were adding value to Wikipedia and in no way vandalising it. GeneticVariation (talk) 00:32, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We don't permit accounts that exist solely to add links to YouTube videos. There's no suggestion you were vandalising the project, it's just we have to be so careful, given the financial rewards that come from driving traffic to YouTube videos and channels. Do you intend to edit Wikipedia, or just add links to more YouTube videos in future ? Nick (talk) 00:43, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The purpose of my account was not solely to add links to YouTube. I genuinely thought my edits were constructive and useful to Wikipedia. I added 10 links, then left it for 24 hours just to ensure there was no problem doing to. When my edits had not been reverted, I took that to mean it was ok, and added 10 more. I was not warned by the robot until hours after my edits took place (edits at approx 10:30, warned about 12:35), so I obviously could not go back in time and pretend I didn't do them.

If the links I added were genuinely unwelcome to Wikipedia I will not add any more. I do find the "ban first, ask questions late" approach a little offensive though. GeneticVariation (talk) 01:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You were warned by XLinkBot after you began adding greater quantities of links to YouTube. The bot doesn't warn or take action against the first few links you add, as naturally people do add links to articles they edit, but both Wikipedia and the bot records you adding links and once you exceed a threshold, you are warned after each link is added (that's why some of your edits have the Edit notice "Tag: repeated addition of external links by non-autoconfirmed user") and that's why there are five warning notices from XLinkBot on your userpage. This was upto and including a warning that you would be blocked without further warning (so no question of "ban first, ask questions later". Why didn't you ask for assistance before that ? Nick (talk) 10:12, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was never warned by XLinkBot! If you look at the time stamps, my last edit was at 11:09, 22 April 2014, whereas the first warning was at 12:35, 22 April 2014. Sending 5 warnings after I have stopped editing, and calling then banning me dispite the fact that I have not made any further edits really doesn't make sense. Sure, if I continued after the warnings, but as you can see from the time stamps all warnings occoured more than an hour after my last edit. GeneticVariation (talk) 12:10, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's really, really strange, I was alerted in real-time by XLinkBot to you adding links. I'm really sorry that you weren't warned before being blocked, so I'll unblock your account, but if you could discuss the mass addition of links first with the Shakespeare WikiProject, that would be best. Nick (talk) 10:32, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. GeneticVariation (talk) 00:58, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]