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February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Doug Williams (bassist) 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/photo.php?pid=522606&l=dd65b6ac56&id=100000613534158. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
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) 09:09, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Origin.21.jpg

File Copyright problem

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File permission problem with File:Origin.21.jpg

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November 2011

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to L.A. Guns band members, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.

Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
ClueBot NG produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please read about it, report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
The following is the log entry regarding this warning: L.A. Guns band members was changed by Sabot-7 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.924399 on 2011-11-10T07:43:58+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 07:44, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagging for File:FBMe2.jpg

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Problems with upload of File:Williams.Cephalic.jpeg

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Conflict of Interest

Hello Sabot-7. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Doug Williams (bassist), you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to you, your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 19:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not continue to edit the Doug Williams (bassist) article. If you are the article subject as you have noted in your edit summary, you have a conflict of interest as described above. Outside of removing gross inaccuracies and vandalism you should not be editing the page. The content you are adding is original research, unencyclopedic in tone, and continues to introduce manual of style errors. Please read WP:AUTO#IFEXIST for guidance on how to proceed with an article wherein you are the subject, but do not restore the unsourced, unverifiable content as it is against Wikipedia policy. Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 22:14, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have requested further input and review of your restoration of the original research/unsourced biographical information here. Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 22:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry

Please do not log out to perform the same edits, avoid detection, or attempt to give an appearance of consensus - it is considered sockpuppetry and will lead to the IP and your main account being blocked. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 22:37, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

December 2011

Your recent editing history at Doug Williams (bassist) shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block.

If you wish to avoid being blocked, instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to discuss the changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. You may still be blocked for edit warring even if you do not exceed the technical limit of the three-revert rule if your behavior indicates that you intend to continue to revert repeatedly. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 12:08, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

your editing is now under discussion here. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 12:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for putting your biography online

Doug, the Wikipedia article on Doug Williams (bassist) is not intended to be the official Doug Williams page, and for reasons you are currently experiencing it never will be. What you need to do is create your own website.

Several free web hosting services exist upon which you can post your bio and announcements as needed. The advantage is you edit those and no one else. There are probably several easy online tutorials for how to do this sort of thing. Let me know if you need help with finding such resources.

One quick method for making your own site right now

Google Sites has several band/musician/performer templates. Sign in, click "Create", click "Browse the gallery", search on "musician", pick a look, then fill in your details. The Google sites Beginners' Guide can walk you through the rest. Traditionally musicians have also had Myspace pages; if you (sensibly) don't want to maintain a MySpace page, at least make one for yourself and link your official site from it.

When your personal website is established and people understand it really is you, other editors may use it as a resource for the Doug Williams (bassist) article. Of course you're entirely welcome to edit Wikipedia, but per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest it'll never be a good place to publish your personal information. / edg ☺ ☭ 15:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

December 2011

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Doug Williams (bassist), without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:58, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. - Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:48, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

December 2011 (more warnings)

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Doug Williams (bassist). This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Bbb23 (talk) 21:07, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please also refrain from copying and pasting text from other websites as you did in this edit (apparently copied from this webpage). Doing so presents a copyright violation. Thank you. JFHJr (㊟) 21:11, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Doug Williams (bassist), you may be blocked from editing without further notice. --Bbb23 (talk) 22:12, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for contravening Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 16:15, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Sabot-7 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I had been trying to edit my page Sabot-7 (talk) 21:24, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Essentially, no. Before you can be allowed to edit her you will need to satisfy us that you have read, understand and accept the policies contained in WP:BLP.--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:44, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Can I use this website that I have created? Listed below? https://sites.google.com/site/dougwilliamsbassist/ It contains all the information needed toi edit my page. Thank You, Doug Williams Sabot-7 (talk) 21:24, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That website was already added to the article as an external link. The information on it can only be used as a source to the extent the material complies with WP:SELFPUB.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:35, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Using your self-publications

Hi, Doug. I'd like to help expand your article, since you are notable despite a lack of sources. For what it's worth, it might help if you think of the Doug Williams (bassist) article not as "your page" (see here and here), but think of it just as an "article about you." As long as you're trying to edit the article about you, you're going to find conflict of interest and disruptive editing practices to be real impediments.

If you have a second, I'd like to address your website as a source for article content. First of all, there's absolutely nothing wrong with making your own self-published source on the internet (called "WP:SPS" or "WP:BLPSPS" for short). It can indeed be used to add some information to the article here about you. Things that encyclopedia articles can take from something made by you include your full name, date and place of birth, where you were raised, etc. Articles can also take some innocuous facts and claims about yourself from BLPSPS like your website: you were inspired by something/someone in particular, you have certain interests, you hold certain beliefs (faith/politics).

Encyclopedia articles shouldn't take much more than that from BLPSPS though. Anything about accomplishments, group memberships, career, military service, and education should all be documented by verifiable reliable third-party sources. Even though what you have to say about yourself is probably true, an encyclopedia needs that third-party verification.

I had a look at the site you've published to see what information could go in the article. Unfortunately, I'm not finding much. Would you consider providing the kind of basic biographic information about yourself there?

On that note, if you are aware of publications in reliable sources (books, newspapers, etc) about you or including you, feel free to post them here, since a few editors haven't been able to find a great deal. If you know of a publication with you in it, list it. Even if it's not online. As long as someone can confirm it somewhere, it should make for decent sourcing. Cheers. JFHJr (㊟) 21:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]