User talk:Roger Sand

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November 2016[edit]

Hello, I'm Stevietheman. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Quicksand, Kentucky, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 13:10, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Bach family. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Justeditingtoday (talk) 00:37, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Quicksand, Kentucky, you may be blocked from editing. Justeditingtoday (talk) 15:18, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with...A user named "Justeditingtoday" has twice now removed a source I supplied for a few Wikipedia pages. The source was a book that provides detailed information about the subject matter. It is clearly a legitimate source. Yesterday, "Justeditingtoday" falsely accused me of soapboxing and promotion, and then he deleted the book. I put it back on this morning because it IS a legitimate source. Just now, he deleted it again, and then sent me an email in which he threatened to remove my ability to edit anything. This is not right. There appears to be no way to contact him. How can I maintain this book as a source document and stop "Justeditingtoday" from deleting it and threatening me?

Roger Sand (talk) 15:29, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Roger Sand, if you can, could you link the page that you tried to add the book to? And a link or reference to the book itself? That would help us with your problem. If you do have problems with a user, it's quite often a good idea to contact the user themselves to try and get a discussion going, you can do that here. If that fails though, have a look at the Wikipedia policy page about dispute resolution, which explains "what to do when you have a dispute with another editor. See Wikipedia:Wikiquette and the essay Staying cool when the editing gets hot for more tips". And also note the This page in a nutshell note at the top of that page, "Resolve disputes calmly, through civil discussion and consensus-building on relevant discussion pages. There are several available options to request opinions from editors outside the dispute: other dispute resolution mechanisms include requests for comments, mediation or, after all other methods have been tried, arbitration". And also, although I'm not accusing you of anything (as I haven't seen the book), do be aware of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on soapboxing and promotion, just in case you are falling foul of something without your knowledge. Hopefully this helped, and I would encourage you to talk to the editor in question, but if you need more help, just click here or leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. Seagull123 Φ 17:00, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Seagull123: The first two edits were these: adding an external link to buy a book in Jackson, Kentucky and adding another external link to buy a book in Breathitt County, Kentucky. All Roger Sand has done is add links to www.dakotasummerhill.com whether as an external link or as a reference and they are all links to purchase the books listed. It is blatantly promotional with the purpose of driving business to dakotasummerhill.com. Justeditingtoday (talk) 17:11, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Justeditingtoday, thanks for linking the edits! The links Roger Sand added are dead links, so even if not promotional should be removed. And @Roger Sand, my understanding is that external links shouldn't be to a website to buy books, the Wikipedia external link guideline says "instead of linking to a commercial book site, consider the "ISBN" linking format, which gives readers an opportunity to search a wide variety of free and non-free book sources". Please correct me if I'm wrong. Seagull123 Φ 17:28, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Help me![edit]

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Please help me with...After my first edit, I received a notice that I had to include references. So I went back and added references. Then "Justeditingtoday" deleted my references and lectured me that I am promoting something. In reviewing his file, you can see how bossy he is, threatening people all the time with blocking them or deleting them. He has even been sanctioned before, for his behavior. He acts as if he is in charge of Wikipedia. I added several books as references, but he only focused on one of them. I could care less about Dakota Summerhill Publishing Co. My wife bought that book and it IS an excellent reference book for the Bach family. Well...thanks to "Justeditingtoday," I will never attempt to contribute to Wikipedia again. Never saw such judgmental, bossy, and downright strange behavior before. GOODBYE!!

Roger Sand (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have a question, or did you just want to rant? From what I've seen in the section above here, the reasons for the removal of your links was given (and they are valid reasons). We hope that one bad experience doesn't ruin Wikipedia entirely for you, and I hope you stick around. Primefac (talk) 17:43, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple accounts[edit]

Are you also J.J. Mayfield (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:39, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

History of Cincinnati[edit]

I am not understanding your 10 edits to History of Cincinnati, where you played around with information in further reading and added a city directory that is already used as a source.

If you would like to play around and test edits, the best place to do that is your WP:Sandbox. Good luck, have fun in your sandbox!–CaroleHenson (talk) 22:38, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

May 2020[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Michael Jackson, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. —C.Fred (talk) 00:40, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]