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November 2010

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page IBM do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. CliffC (talk) 23:47, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Various Reversions

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(Added to user CliffC's Talk page...) Hi Cliff, Sorry if I stepped on any toes. I see the reversions you've made to my posts, and I'll study the policies more closely to avoid in the future. I was generally convinced that I was directing users to a better patent display page for those patents, but in the future I'll respect the link provided in citations and I'll avoid adding external links and use text citations instead, and only where appropriate. Thanks for the time you put into this. Snarkosis (talk) 00:45, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ip.com

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If you wish to link to a patent, please just link to the patent office copy. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Snarkosis (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Please consider my unblock request. All of my edits have been done in good faith. I am not affiliated with IP.com, I just find them the most useful for patent searches, and I truly believe that some of their saved search queries contain data potentially of great value for various Wikipedia pages. But I do understand where you are coming from and Wikipedia's policy, and I promise not to continue with this practice (external links). Instead I will only focus on reference citations where appropriate and only when such a reference will improve or elucidate a page. Thank you.

Accept reason:

OK, your account is now unblocked, but on one condition. I'm not sure whether these patent links meet the external links policy. I'd like you to discuss it with editors that know more about the subject matter than I do. I'd suggest asking at Talk:Patent, but if you can think of a more appropriate place, go for it. The goal here is to get community consensus about whether such links belong in these articles.--Chaser (talk) 22:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Patent Discussion

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Thanks Chaser for the quick resolution to this, and I fully agree to your proposal. I'll check out the page you recommended. Another option is that if I am unsure on any given link, I could bring it up in the talk section of a given page to discuss first. I'll look into both. Snarkosis (talk) 22:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You suggest an excellent alternative. Either is fine by me. Welcome back!--Chaser (talk) 02:06, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, given the chilly reception this site is getting at the discussion on Talk:Patent, I'd rather you wait on the result there. If the consensus is not to link to that site, then you should follow that consensus.--Chaser (talk) 03:16, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IBM Redbooks Edit

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Attn: Tnxman307: I do not understand this edit reversion:

(diff | hist) . . m IBM Redbooks‎; 20:06 . . (-173) . . Tnxman307 (talk | contribs) (Reverted 2 edits by Snarkosis (talk) identified as vandalism to last revision by 87.78.21.82. Using Twinkle)

The page has a "[citation needed]" tag next to the sentence, "At approximately 500,000 downloads per month, they are the most downloaded books on the internet." I simply added a citation link to a page on IBM where they report that "6 million Redbooks are downloaded each year", which is the 500k mentioned in the article that needed citation. I think this citation that I added is valid, should not be tagged as "vandalism", and the deletion of my citation should be reverted. Also, please see my unblock request -- I am acting in good faith. Thanks. Snarkosis (talk) 21:40, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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An Official Welcome

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It occurs to me that you've never been officially welcomed here - so let me do so! Wikipedia is a pretty fun place, but it can be a little daunting at first. I'll leave you a templated message below this with some links and reading to get you started. TNXMan 01:50, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome Message

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