User talk:Bill robb

Hello, Bill robb! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 16:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

COI warning 1

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Peace education, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 08:05, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Why your edits were reverted

In response to your "Still not sure why deleted" -- my reason was contained in my edit summary: "Rvt: MASSIVELY WP:COI edit, as well as removing a number of fact-tags without providing a ref & introducing unsourced material".

Now please stop:

1. making WP:COI edits, cited solely to your own self-published material;
2. introducing material without citing a source; and
3. removing fact-tags from material which you haven't cited a source for.

Please read WP:COI. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 11:50, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Looking over your contributions...

...I cannot find anything that you have added that wasn't either cited to yourself (as either Bill Robb or W. Robb) or uncited. In addition to WP:COI, please read WP:V & WP:NOR (particularly WP:NOR#Citing oneself). Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 11:58, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

In response to "In my view Hrafn has an axe to grind - he seems to delete all items relating back to an editor's books or articles even though this is accpetable academic practice."

1. Wikipedia is not an orthodox academic publication, and of necessity does not follow "academic practice" in a number of matters.
2. Your edits are in violation of WP:V (both generally and of WP:SELFPUB) and WP:NOR (both generally and WP:NOR#Citing oneself).

Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 12:26, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Coi Warning 2

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you.

This guideline STRONGLY discourages you to make edits where you cite your own work, add links to things you are affiliated with, etc. etc. You are close to a 3RR (which is also true for Hrafn), but I do agree with his edits. I will strongly advice you to discuss the edits on the talkpage, and NOT to make them yourself. Referencing to own work is not strange in academics, but referencing only to your own work is frowned upon, as it is here. Your edits are quite close to only citing yourself/etc. Please read the policies and guidelines. Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Blatant self-promotion

I note that, in one of your first edits on wikipedia, you describe yourself in Values education as "a leading expert in the field - Dr Bill Robb". Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 05:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

OK:

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia.

Stop pushing your own links. This is a final warning, discuss and do not add your links or other information regarding YOURSELF anywhere in mainspace. Use the talkpages. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

W

You have been blocked for a period of 31 hours from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia.

You felt the necessity to undo reverts of your edits again, after this final warning. You are close to an indef block as a Spam-only account. Please reconsider your style, as suggested in several posts above. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 20:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)