User talk:Charmcitygirl

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Hi, Charmcitygirl! I wanted to thank you for adding some GREAT info to the Shinique Smith article!  :) You are helping to improve Wikipedia, which is especially important when it comes to coverage of women (particularly women of color), who are underrepresented in Wikipedia's content, so THANK YOU!!!

I also wanted to let you know that I made some changes to keep it up to Wiki standards. When you re-wrote the lead, you included some wording that was word-for-word identical to info located elsewhere on the Web. As I'm sure you know, copyright issues are taken very seriously by the community. You can read more here Wikipedia:Plagiarism

The message above from the bot was talking about the links you added to the article. These links provided lots of excellent information, but links should really be for other Wikipedia articles. Some of your links should either be citations or could be included under a heading called "Further Reading" or "External Links." I have been working on turning some of your links into citations (still working on this). I also tagged a few statements as needing citations. Because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the citations should be secondary sources (for example, a newspaper review ABOUT an exhibition [rather than the gallery's website advertising the exhibition]).

I also deleted or re-wrote some content that was not written in a neutral point-of-view. It was well-written and would have been awesome in a review or thesis, but this is an encyclopedia. It can be hard to get used to writing only the facts when you are accustomed to an academic style. I have struggled with this in the past! Learn more here: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view If you have any questions, please let me know. I'm happy to help! The teahouse is also a wonderful place to connect with experienced editors and get questions answered: Wikipedia:Teahouse

Keep up your good work, and I hope to see you around!

Prosekc (talk) 17:01, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

November 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Shinique Smith has been reverted.
Your edit here to Shinique Smith 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1WHqIzblko, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1WHqIzblko, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-ytG8d1B0) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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) 02:26, 19 November 2015 (UTC)