User talk:Xichen4

Welcome!

Hello, Xichen4, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 17:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Southern Polytechnic State University. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

One major problem with your text is it appears to be ad copy for the dining service. —C.Fred (talk) 17:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please also note that DineOnCampus should not be linked in the article, per the external link guidelines. "Links to websites of organizations mentioned in an article" are item #19 of Links normally to be avoided. Besides, parties wishing to go to that website can get there from Student Life→Food Service on the SPSU home page, which is linked in the article. —C.Fred (talk) 17:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Southern Polytechnic State University. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you.

Wikipedia is not a directory. The times of operation for the dining halls should not be listed in the article. —C.Fred (talk) 05:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Southern Polytechnic State University, you may be blocked from editing. —C.Fred (talk) 02:14, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for making me aware that you are editing as part of a class assignment. While that doesn't release you from any of the editing guidelines, it does reassure me that your intent is not to advertise/promote the campus dining service. Please pass on to your instructor a reminder that Wikipedia is a functioning encyclopedia, so students' edits may be changed, reverted, embellished, spelling-corrected, or edited in any number of ways. Hopefully he/she knows is on Wikipedia himself/herself and knows about the WikiProject for classroom assignments. If not, he/she can contact me—via either my talk page or the E-mail this user link on it—and I'll be happy to give him/her some more information. —C.Fred (talk) 05:08, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]