User talk:Marydeshon

Hello, Marydeshon! 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

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May 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page North Kansas City High School has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000837576137&ref=profile.
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) 20:41, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page North Kansas City High School do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000837576137&ref=profile..
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) 23:09, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

February 2013

Hello, I'm Shearonink. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more of the submissions you recently left using the Article Feedback Tool, such as the feedback you left on Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes, since it seemed inappropriate according to the guidelines for posting helpful feedback. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! You need to first discuss any issues you might be having with an editor on either their user talk page, your user talk page or the talk page of the article in question. I suggest you follow the steps outlined in Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Shearonink (talk) 06:33, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that there are some issues with the references of North Kansas City High School, an article that you have edited and have an interest in. Please take a look at Identifying reliable sources, especially the Self-published sources section. Wikipedia articles cannot be used as sources for other Wikipedia articles, since wikis' content is user-generated. Shearonink (talk) 06:52, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Shearonink. Thank you for your helpful and meaningful support. I've made the changes that I believe should be suitable on including Sally Wade in our Notable Alumni section of North Kansas City High School.

Many contributors like myself aren't on Wikipedia on a daily basis if we are on a couple times a year at best. 1) The application as a whole is clearly archaic. 2) It is extremely non-user-friendly. 3) There are mountains of pages of reading that contributors have to wade through to find answers. Coupled with our investment of time; it becomes frustrating when an editor appears to go on a power trip, becomes a chop shop, goes delete happy, provides no meaninful explanation, changes his/her explanations and takes us into the forbidden war zone (on purpose). As simply as you explained that I needed to remove the references to Wikipedia and other user based content like YouTube, I was able to resolve the problem. What should have taken me a hour to fix has now turned into a 4 hour unnecessary experience with ill feelings.

From what I read in Wikipedia, "Disruptive editing is not always intentional. Editors may be accidentally disruptive because they don't understand how to correctly edit, or because they lack the social skills or competence necessary to work collaboratively. The fact that the disruption occurs in good faith does not change the fact that it is harmful to Wikipedia." I read through the other editors Talk page and there are a lot of unhappy contributors. A lacking of social skills and basic common courtesy were what was upsetting to me.

I also noticed that the other editor was wise enough not to engage in the 3 Revert Rule (that I've been reading about).

Truly, all of this it makes me not want to ever contribute again.

I added my personal photos to give the page meaning and for the time being allowed them into commons. I did that so a picture of our school would show up on the Facebook Community Pages and it's been a gigantic help so people know they are "liking" the right page. I don't want my photos in commons and want to make them copywritten; but haven't sifted through the reading to find out how to do it.

All I wanted to do was add Sally Wade and go to bed. Had I known everything I was doing was going to be repeatedly and callously deleted, I wouldn't have wasted my time.

Posting feedback that you didn't feel was appropriate shows that Wikipedia's IT Department needs to take a serious look at this dinosaur of an application, operating environment it's running on, get funding to upgrade to anything more user friendly and provide easy to find ways for contributors to voice a complaint and get a meaningful answer. I've got 30 years of IT Business & Systems Consulting experience. A system application like this, at some point soon, needs to be upgraded or Wikipedia will die a slow painful death (in my opinion).

Again, thank you for being supportive. I hope now that I can figure out how to sign this.Marydeshon (talk) 20:33, 25 February 2013 (UTC)MaryDeShon[reply]