User talk:Tom kearsey

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September 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Eric Crees has been reverted.
Your edit here to Eric Crees was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (https://www.discogs.com/artist/688135-Eric-Crees) 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) 22:55, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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September 2020

Hello, I'm 2601:188:180:B8E0:4C1C:FC42:57CD:B2AF. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed 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. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:4C1C:FC42:57CD:B2AF (talk) 17:04, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Tom kearsey. 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 conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:4C1C:FC42:57CD:B2AF (talk) 17:04, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Celibidache

I see that you are new here. Welcome. The beginning is tough, as I remember. One concept is WP:BRD, which is short for: when your Bold edit is Reverted, don't revert back (because that is the beginning of an edit war), but take the time to propose your suggestion on the article talk, and if a majority of commenters agrees that it is a useful addition, it will be taken to the article. This is very general, and very helpful. So don't do again what you did: revert back, not even when you are 100% sure you are right. (This is of course not for spelling mistakes and vandalism, but for a major change is you introduced. My suggestion (because you didn't know better): trim it at least. The long quotes don't add to clarity, - whoever is interested can read that in the sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:52, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What in "When reverted don't revert back" was too hard to understand? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:19, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to make the same observation – Tom kearsey, when you added names to List of classical trombonists and your edit was reverted because the names in question were not people that Wikipedia had articles about, the thing to do was not restore the names again. Instead, you should start a discussion at Talk:List of classical trombonists and try to get a consensus in favour of your changes. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 19:22, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits

Hi Tom kearsey! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Toccata quarta (talk) 16:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65FA:133E:9CFB:A746 (talk) 18:14, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Tom kearsey. See the thread at WP:ANI#WP:COI, WP:BLP and WP:RELIABLE issues. The complaining editor has stated you engaged in "a persistent addition of WP:BLP violations to make a point.." You can respond on the noticeboard if you wish. EdJohnston (talk) 18:52, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]