User talk:Sylvaen

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February 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 Tamaskan Dog 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://pickofthelitterblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/tamaskan/ (matching the regex rule \bwordpress\.com). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, 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).
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NCSU Mascot

I'm just an NCSU alumni and I'm not familiar with dog breeding. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? The school says she (yes I knew it was female) is a Tamaskan. [1] --ShadowRAM (talk) 23:18, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info, I hope my alma mater takes some time to get to the bottom of the issue and more importantly does the right thing. --ShadowRAM (talk) 01:24, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Forums are not reliable sources; membership in a forum is an even less reliable thread to hang a claim on. —C.Fred (talk) 19:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tamaskan Wolfdog

Hi

I know this, which is why I added several times the wolf content part. Didn't know how to get the site deleted so I wanted to make it more true :-) Nino Pilekvist (talk) 17:44, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What Wikipedia is Not

Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information

In particular please see #3 and #4. It might also be good to read the other sections located in the article. If you still do not agree there is a topic opened on the discussion page of Talk:Tamaskan_Dog. Thanks. PedanticSophist (talk) 05:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hiking Dog

Hi. I've removed again your addition to Tamaskan Dog. For a dog to be a famous Tamaskan, that is, being notable and relevant to the Tamaskan Dog article, I would expect an article in a reliable source that not only mentions or names the dog individually, but also notes that it is a Tamaskan Dog. The article in the Huffington Post does neither, merely referring in passing to a number of unspecified dogs. So not only does it not appear that the individual dog is that notable, but we only have your word for it that this specific dog actually exists and is a Tamaskan. It's also the case that the Huffington Post blogs are user generated, and not the best of sources. Can you cite a better source that mentions this Tamaskan Dog? --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 00:15, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2013

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