User talk:Seedcollector
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April 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Doomsday Preppers has been reverted.
Your edit here to Doomsday Preppers 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://www.youtube.com/user/PeterPrepper) 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.
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Whoa. First, thank you for recognizing the links were excessive, and removing them per WP:EL. Second, I didn't mean to WP:BITE you; after all, as far as number of edits is concerned, I'm fairly new here too. I felt I had to come on strong because conflicts-of-intrest can be a big problem, and you admitted to a potential conflict of interest. Like I said, most of what you've done was improvement; even reverting my edits could have been argued to be improvement (which is why I offered a chance for explanation). Unfortunately, there is still a problem with that POV paragraph. Opinions, no matter how valid, do not belong in Wikipedia articles (unless they are the opinions of a reliable source, with citations). Also, signed comments are for the talk page, not articles (and signatures are generated automatically when you type four "~" (tildes)). So, unless you can edit it to comply with (WP:NPOV, WP:OR, etc.) it will still have to go. (there are plenty of places to put your opinions and get back at the show, but Wikipedia is not one of them). And I wasn't trying to 'destroy your honest work', I was simply trying to improve the encyclopedia (which is, after all, the main reason we should all have for being here). Evidence of that is that I did not simply revert your reverts (and so on), or report you to the conflict of interest notice board, but instead opened a discussion (the preferred method of averting conflicts). The fact that 'anyone can edit' can be a harsh reality of this project, and one I hope you can work with.
In short, I hope I didn't scare you off; I think you have great potential for future editing. While you could certainly continue editing this article, I would recommend you take a break from this article, skim a few of the major policy pages (linked above and on your own talk page), and try you hand at some other articles (those that you are knowledgable about, but have less of a vested interest in; you seem to have some expertise in computers and agriculture). This article (and all your previous edits/versions; see the history) will always be here, ready to be improved once you're a little more familiar with wikiquette. 71.234.211.99 (talk) 01:29, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I moved (not deleted, not 'destroyed' in any way) your "signed" paragraph to the Reception section I just created (it seems to fit better there than in an episode description). Bear in mind, however, that since it is unsourced original research, it could still be deleted by anyone, at any time, without warning (mind you, it would still exist in the history, in case you wanted to recover it). I also moved (again, not deleted) the Fukushima Diary link from the episode 6 description (where I replaced it with liks to Wiki's own Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster page) to the external links area, as per WP:EL ("External links in an article can be helpful to the reader, but they should be kept minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article.""...but they should not normally be used in the body of an article." I only left the other [links within episode descriptions] because they were directly referenced in the show. If you have any issues with this, let me know. 71.234.211.99 (talk) 13:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
And somebody else just removed the other two Fukishima-related links 71.234.211.99 (talk) 22:07, 29 May 2012 (UTC)