User talk:Kgearin

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March 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 History of Seattle's Gay Community has been reverted.

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam 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. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspyzvrgi4g). 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. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.

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Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page History of the LGBT community in Seattle has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. -- Mentifisto 01:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Please do not make test edits to articles, as you did with this edit to History of the LGBT community in Seattle, even if you intend to fix them later. Such edits constitute vandalism, and will be reverted. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Versus22 _talk 01:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

History of the LGBT community in Seattle

Hi there Kgearin and welcome to Wikipedia. I just wanted to have quick chat with you as I noticed that you have been trying to stop people editing History of the LGBT community in Seattle saying that "AS PER NOW THIS IS A STUDENT PROJECT PLEASE DO NOT ADD OR DELETE UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT ON MARCH 14TH 2009, THEN IT WILL BE OPEN FOR CHANGE" (your capitalisation). There are a couple issues that arise from this statement and I wondered whether you might spare a moment to have a look at some of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The ones most relevant here are Ownership of articles which can be summarised as "If you don't want your material to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it." and No original research which explains that Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought.

I have made a start on cleaning up the article which has included creating a lead section and other changes per the manual of style as well as removing some of the opinion. You are of course welcome to continue to edit the article, as is any other editor, but please can you do so within our policies and guidelines and please do not revert the good work done by other contributors as you have done in the past. You might also like to find a different medium for the creation of your assignment as, for the reasons outlines above, Wikipedia is not really an appropriate forum. The very best of luck, kind regards, Nancy ^talk 09:23, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't look like you saved that bit into the article. The only edit you have made to it since 07:46(UTC) this morning was to delete the old health section and replace it with a bingo section - see here - can't see anything at all about gay marriage. Nancy ^talk 09:36, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Please do not remove content from pages without explanation, as you did with this edit to History of the LGBT community in Seattle. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing. Alansohn (talk) 16:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)