User talk:Red Flag Walks

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Hello, Red Flag Walks, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking

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March 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Malcolm Hulke has been reverted.
Your edit here to Malcolm Hulke 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://lipsticksocialist.wordpress.com/tag/malcolm-hulke/) 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) 12:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2016

Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page A for Andromeda, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links.
Your edit here to A for Andromeda 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://fantasiesofpossibility.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/a-message-from-the-stars-a-for-andromeda-1961/, https://fantasiesofpossibility.wordpress.com) 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) 08:58, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to The Andromeda Breakthrough. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.
Your edit here to The Andromeda Breakthrough 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://fantasiesofpossibility.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/a-storm-from-the-desert-the-andromeda-breakthrough-1962/, https://fantasiesofpossibility.wordpress.com) 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) 09:03, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at A for Andromeda, you may be blocked from editing. Jim1138 (talk) 09:09, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Self promotion

Wikipedia is not for promoting your blog. Please see WP:NOTPROMOTION. The other links on A for Andromeda are not blogs, so how are they "no different"? Some bloggers are considered to be notable enough to have their blogs cited. These are few and far between. Blogs do get added now and then for self-promotional reasons. And they get removed when noticed by some such as me. BTW: Wikipedia has a wp:blacklist where troublesome spammers end up. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Red Flag Walks. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Scr★pIron^IV 19:11, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for your prompt response. However I do not think there was a conflict of interest in this case. My blog Fantasies of Possibility is written purely to inform people about science fiction topics that I am knowledgeable about and would like to share with readers, which is what blogs are for after all. I receive no income from the blog and there is no advertising on the blog. I put the External Link to my posts because I thought they would add to the sum of knowledge on Wikipedia which was what I thought it stood for. On that basis i think the links shoudl stand and would like them re-instated

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Red_Flag_Walks&action=edit&section=5#

Red Flag Walks (talk) 19:54, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]