User talk:Rbw1089

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October 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Somerville Community Path has been reverted.
Your edit here to Somerville Community Path 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.facebook.com/#!/pages/Friends-of-the-Community-Path/129724153751066?sk=info) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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) 03:57, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Somerville Community Path. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Gross removal of sourced content and all citations, inserting unsourced content instead, and leaving the article misformatted, is highly disruptive and hardly distinguishable from vandalism. If you wish to improve the article, please experiment elsewhere first (such as in the sandbox, then make edits in small increments (perhaps one section at a time), taking care to preserve the existing sourced content and formatting, with notations in the edit summaries to help others understand the intentions of your edits. Hertz1888 (talk) 04:59, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Somerville Community Path

Please refrain from making radical changes to the article that involve removing sourced content, references, categories, etc. without justification. As I noted previously, a more gradual, preservationist approach is more likely to result in a net improvement and avoid further reversion. There were 21 references; you left it with 6, of which 2 are unacceptable (WP cannot cite itself as a reliable source). Using the edit summaries is part of editing collaboratively. You are welcome to discuss proposed changes on the article's talk page, and it is encouraged by the policy at WP:BRD. Hertz1888 (talk) 00:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your feedback, Hertz1888. I apologize for changing the entire page at once. I am new to Wikipedia, and I was not aware of the Wiki etiquette, the reliable citation rules, or the option for providing edit summaries. Over the next weeks, I will try to implement gradual changes that respect the content that is already there, and I will first discuss the proposed changes on the article talk page. Look forward to working with you! --Rbw1089 (talk) 02:27, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your courteousness and your desire to enhance (rather than revolutionize) the article. In case you have not yet seen them, there are replies to your message on my talk page. I look forward to working with you, too, and to seeing the article improve with your photos and other additions. Hertz1888 (talk) 03:12, 1 November 2011 (UTC)