User talk:Ninstints

Steven Hill (political reformer)

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Steven Hill (political reformer), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process.

• • • What do you mean? Do you mean delete the entire Steven Hill entry? Why on earth would you do that? Steven Hill is an important public intellectual in the United States. This article about him has been properly sourced, certainly as well-sourced as many other biographies on Wikipedia. Its format was modelled after other biographies on Wikipedia. It seems to me that you are doing this maliciously, perhaps you have something against the work of Steven Hill. Please desist immediately. It is wrong of you to turn this into your own personal vendetta.ninstints

All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

• • • I don't understand what all this gibberish means. WHERE do I find this {{dated prod}} notice? HOW do I remove it? You are turning Wikipedia into an opaque vehicle for privileged geeks that have the time to figure out all this archaic code language, instead of into the transparent community it was meant to be. ninstints

Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Scarykitty 01:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

• • • who are you Scarykitty? What gives you the right -- and the nerve -- to go around marking other people's posts for deletion like a dog marking its territory. You are destructive to the goals of Wikipedia, please stop. ninstints

July 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Steven Hill (author) 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 constructively to this encyclopedia.  
Your edit here to Steven Hill (author) 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://linkagogopage.blogspot.com/2010/10/linkagogo-page.html) 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 blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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) 05:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

External linking

Regarding your undo:

• We do not link externally in the body of the text if there are appropriate internal links. That goes for San Fransisco, FairVote, New America Foundation. Having those as external links in the body of the article is NOT appropriate. Also for the other places, those links are inappropriate, and sometimes used both to link as an external link, ánd as a reference.
• For the external links section, the three links that I remove, clearly fail WP:ELNO. The blogspot is superfluous to the official site of the subject, and e.g. the fairvote link is a direct link on FairVote, but indirect on Steven Hill (author).

Please have a look at the applicable policies and guidelines, and see other pages of other authors (e.g. Stephen King) - those do not have external links in the body, because of the policies and guidelines that tell that that should not be done (and when you find authors where the external links are in the body - those should be removed as well). I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:38, 6 July 2011 (UTC)