User talk:MattHewitt

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July 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Metascope Records has been reverted.
Your edit here to Metascope Records 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=Kpw_KVXVt_A, https://www.youtube.com/user/martinstankievitz) 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) 16:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest and promotional editing

Hello, MattHewitt. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Metascope Records, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 11:28, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Reply

Hi and thanks for your message on my talk page. I have restored the maintenance tags to the article that you removed - the references are still simple urls rather than properly cited - see the page linked to in the link rot tag for how to fix these. With notability, it is not just about the number of sources cited, but the kind (many are press releases and other things directly connected with the subject of the article) and the specific criteria at WP:NCORP. As I said in an edit summary, as you have a conflict of interest, you should let another editor who is independent decide when that criteria has been met. Please do not remove maintenance tags from an article again without specifically addressing the issue they point to and explaining how you have done so in the edit summary. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 03:49, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]