User talk:Iphnet

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December 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis 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://iphnet.tripod.com (matching the regex rule (?<!jeff560\.)tripod\.com).
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) 21:02, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:28, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Adoption

Greetings Iphnet, I see you're up for adoption, and I'm in the market. If ever you need advice or answers, just ask me -- any question, any time. I'd like to help however I can. Given your connection to a medical topic - idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis -- I'm especially interested. Happy editing - Draeco (talk) 21:52, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to help, and I'd love to see you become a regular editor and monitor of the IPH article since you have personal experience and passion about it, judging by your website. That site cannot be included as an external link, as you've discovered, for two major reasons. First, it's not a reliable source in that it is not peer-reviewed or published by an academic authority. Second, you have a potential conflict of interest because it is your own website. Neither of these points mean you are dishonest, but generally they are scenarios that we avoid to ensure a neutral point of view, one of the cornerstone policies of Wikipedia. You can still do considerable work on the article by adding applicable citations (including some of those already on your website), adding more information, cleaning up the grammar, and watching it for future erroneous edits (all of which it badly needs). - Draeco (talk) 17:19, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I put in some work. Check the difference. There's still more for you to do. - Draeco (talk) 18:51, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I added the article's info. It would be better to cite the actual letter from NEJM, but I couldn't find it through either PubMed or EBSCO. Don't be afraid to add such info yourself; you certainly seem to be more on top of the current research than I myself. - Draeco (talk) 22:27, 15 February 2010 (UTC)