User talk:Creekolp56

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July 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mike Rinder 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://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/mike-rinder-the-truth-david-miscavige-wants-to-kill/.
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) 05:03, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Mike Rinder. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Please do not add references that fail the reliable sources guideline to articles on biographies of living persons on Wikipedia, as you did at the article on Mike Rinder - an article within the topic of WP:ARBSCI. -- Cirt (talk) 13:20, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

August 2010

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Mike Rinder. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Addition of poorly sourced blog sources that fail WP:RS to WP:BLP page on WP:ARBSCI topic. -- Cirt (talk) 06:13, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note User_talk:Sandstein#Query_re_Creekolp56. I agree with Cirt that xenutv.com, markrathbun.wordpress.com and scientolog-cult.com, which you inserted earlier in the Rinder article, are not appropriate sources for a biography of a living person. However, the Nature blog and the original TV programme itself would appear to be okay. Please review WP:BLPSPS and WP:SPS. As a suggestion, to prevent this dispute from escalating, you could insert the Nature blog page with the embedded YouTube videos of Rinder's interview as an external link in the Rinder article, in the External links section. I believe this would be quite in line with BLP standards. --JN 466 18:03, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, on reflection, what I recommended won't do either. The Nature blog does not appear to be under the magazine's editorial control, but appears to be part of a social networking feature on the site; moreover, the YouTube copy of the Australian TV programme that it links to has not been placed on YouTube by the copyright holder, and thus falls foul of WP:ELNEVER. So I am sorry, but I'm afraid Cirt has it absolutely right, and I'd counsel you to follow Cirt's advice here. --JN 466 18:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Citing sources

Perhaps you could use some additional information on citing sources on Wikipedia. Here are some helpful links:

Hope that helps! Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]