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December 2012[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page A Very British Coup has been reverted.
Your edit here to A Very British Coup 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://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/thirty-years-of-a-very-british-coup/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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) 13:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Secret State (TV miniseries), because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you.
Your edit here to Secret State (TV miniseries) 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://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/thirty-years-of-a-very-british-coup/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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) 13:05, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

March 2013[edit]

Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page House of Cards (UK TV series), because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links.
Your edit here to House of Cards (UK TV series) 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://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/house-of-cards-revisited/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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) 10:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Whizzer and Chips with this edit. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate may links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. T4B (talk) 11:11, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014[edit]

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* {http://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/thirty-years-of-the-ballad-of-halo-jones/) Thirty years of The Ballad of Halo Jones. Essay by Chris Hallam

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Linkspam[edit]

Every single edit of yours on Wikipedia has consisted of adding links to your own blog - linkspam. I have reverted those few that were not undone immediately. Consider this a warning: If you persist in spamming Wikipedia, you will be blocked and your blog blacklisted. Driving traffic to your blog is not what Wikipedia is for. Huon (talk) 17:03, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I would like to contest this decision. 1. You are factually incorrect in stating that every single edit I made was to add a link to my blog. I have corrected errors on other articles written on here by most other people too, for example. Perhaps you feel I am being pedantic here but where Wikipedia is concerned it is important to be accurate. And your statement was inaccurate. 2. Yes, most of the links I added were links to my blog. I would argue that all of the links I added were of a high quality and of genuine interest to the readership of the features in question. I agree that "driving traffic to (my) blog is not what Wikipedia is for". However, whereas before somebody looking up The Ballad of Halo Jones or George Brown MP or House of Cards under "external links" would have been directed to a useful and interesting article about these subjects, now they cannot. You have removed them and made the site weaker as a result. Please look at these links again. 1. Are they irrelevant? 2. Are the articles of a poor quality? If you can look at them and feel they are either of these things, you are justified in removing the links. If you can't, then perhaps you should restore the links? Adding links to relevant high quality articles is not spamming! Thank you for your time. Regards, Chris Hallam.

The links are "relevant" only insofar as they about are the topic you've added them to. They are irrelevant and mis-focused for inclusion in any part of an encyclopedia article, and, where you added them to a references section, that was quite indiscriminate. The references section is not some catchall for writing that happens to be about the topic. It is for listing reliable sources that are actually used for specific article content, for verification purposes. The links patently fail the external links policy and your purpose in adding them is an abuse of Wikipedia, seemingly for self-aggrandizement. You've wasted the time of numerous users, since many different editors have independently spent time finding and removing them (the very fact that that occurred should tell you something).

Putting aside the numerous bot notices, since you've continued to add them after the message above from Huon, and after all those prior, independent reverts, this is a final warning. Do not add any more linkspam to Wikipedia, which will subject you to an indefinite block. Since you are capable of writing the entries at your blog, you are quite capable of editing Wikipedia in a constructive manner. I doubt after reading this message that you are well disposed toward me, but regardless, that's a compliment. Your writing ability, exercised for a proper purpose, is more than welcome.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit to Stewart Jackson[edit]

Hello. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person (Stewart Jackson), but that you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 12:16, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Chris Hallam (January 30)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

No references at all - requires significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources to show notability

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Moonbeam1812/sandbox/Chris Hallam and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to User:Moonbeam1812/sandbox/Chris Hallam, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

KylieTastic (talk) 11:42, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Moonbeam1812! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! KylieTastic (talk) 11:42, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Moonbeam1812/sandbox/Chris Hallam[edit]

Hello, Moonbeam1812. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox/Chris Hallam".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Techie3 (talk) 09:01, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]