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In the future I will tag these dupe images myself. I was unaware of the protocol. Thanks.

June 2013

Hello, I'm Dawnseeker2000. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Piping and instrumentation diagram, because it 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. Dawnseeker2000 01:13, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Link on page Circuit diagram

You wrote on my talk page:

>I added an external link to circuit diagrams since there is a free tool to make them.

On the link https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/examples/circuit-diagrams, that you placed on Circuit diagram, there is only a free trial available. F.i. saving is not even possible without paying. IMHO this site pretends to be free but is not. I suggest you remove this link again. --Ajv39 (talk) 12:44, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 16:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss your edit on the talk page first. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 16:56, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Explaining

I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS (talk) 16:22, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WPEL

Note: This was moved from User talk:MrOllie to User talk:Bhanks. See my comments below. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MrOllie thanks for watching out. Here is a link to a talk page where I explained what I was doing to another moderator. User_talk:TheOriginalSoni/Archive_6. Wikipedia:ELNO doesn't apply because the tool is completely free. Thanks! Wanting to move wikipedia out of the downloaded software dark ages doesn't make me a spammer. ;)

I hope reading that thread will help. If you still feel like it violates Wikipedia:ELNO will you be more specific about which policy (reference #) it violates? You will see that I got in some deep waters because I wasn't explaining what I was doing and why I was doing it, but everything was resolved once I explained myself. Bhanks (talk) 18:32, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically it violates WP:ELNO points 4 and 13. Also, Your repetitive additions of this link on numerous articles (especially after being warned) are link spamming behavior. If you keep this up any longer, your link will be added to the black list. - MrOllie (talk) 18:34, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- I'm not sure helpful that threats are helpful in this situation. I think there is a difference between a disagreement about what is considered a good external resource to a page and name calling. If someone is repeatedly doing something you disagree with that doesn't make it inherently mean it is done in bad faith. Like I said before I do appreciate your position and am sure you have had it up to your eyeballs in bad actors. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhanks (talk • contribs) 18:58, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(4)The primary purpose is to let a visitor know that there is a free resource that they can use to make the kind of diagrams that they are reading about. Would you be opposed to it if I put up another free tool? Would that resolve this issue? (13) I disagree that this is not directly related. Most people visiting these pages are students looking for answers to a problem. The next logical step is to build something. This isn't true for every page but anytime you have some sort of diagram a link to a tool is in order, in my opinion. Did you have a moment to read the thread I linked to you? I mean the DFD page until recently didn't even have any images. I want to move away from garbage wikipedia pages that don't actually help you get anything or teach you anything. Those are just my thoughts. Thanks! Bhanks (talk) 18:55, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A 14 day trial is not a 'free tool'. If you put up another free tool I might or might not object, it would depend on if you added the same link to dozens of pages, for one thing. I will say that it would be a very good idea for you to find something totally unrelated to LucidChart to edit about. I did read the thread you linked, and I really don't see how somebody telling you that they 'have no other knowledge of the policies in this case' was a green light for you to continue with your link additions. - MrOllie (talk) 18:57, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you are employed by LucidChart, I suggest you review our guidelines on conflict of interest. - MrOllie (talk) 19:22, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(Uninvolved editor) normally, a conversation about external links placed by Bhanks belongs on Bhanks' user talk page, so I am WP:BOLDly moving this from User talk:MrOllie to User talk:Bhanks. If anyone objects to this, WP:BRD explains what to do. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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AfC notification: Draft:ZipBooks has a new comment

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Your submission at Articles for creation: ZipBooks (September 28)

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This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
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Your draft article, Draft:ZipBooks

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Hey guys! I'm not affiliated with accountingWEB in any way. There are a couple major online accounting new sites and I noticed that Accounting Today had a page so I figured I should also create one for accountingWEB. They have been around since 2001 and are well known in the industry so I don't think section G11 applies here. Let me know what you want to do here. Bhanks (talk) 20:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (April 18)

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Richard II

Hi Bhanks,

Thanks for helping out on Richard II! I had to revert your changes for various reasons, and just wanted to drop you a note saying thanks and explain the reasons for reverting.

You generally shouldn't use Britannica as a citation for information on Wikipedia. Britannica, like Wikipedia itself, is a ternary source: it summarises the secondary sources. What you want are good secondary sources, preferably ones published on a university press or in a peer-reviewed academic journal. There is no bright line rule about sources like this, but in an area like Shakespeare, where there are so many high quality sources available, other ternary sources would need a very strong reason to be used.
The lead section of an article should summarise the rest of the article. Thus any change you make there should have been preceded by changes to the body of the article somewhere, where it's possible to go into far more detail. This is, incidentally, why lead sections generally do not need to be cited: they just summarise the article body, which should already be cited.
The syntax to add a citation is actually <ref>…</ref>, and the {{cite encyclopedia}} template just formats the ref properly for display. There are tons of citation templates, but most of them do not add the <ref>…</ref> tags, so they need to be wrapped in those in most cases (unless you're using shortened footnotes).

Anyways, I didn't want to revert your changes without explaining why. Cheers, Xover (talk) 04:56, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Xover: Thanks for the feedback! Bhanks (talk) 14:12, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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There's enough warnings on this page; please stop adding links to ZipBooks. I will blacklist the site the next time you add it. Kuru (talk) 15:01, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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