Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Wikipedia entry update part 3

I have officially been blocked by Wikipedia. I was going to change my entry today for the ProAna article but instead, I recieved this pleasant message in my email.

User talk:Castilan
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page pro-mia 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 for advertising or promotion. Since 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 to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Natalie (talk) 01:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

This user has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia.(see: block logcontributionsdeleted contributionspage movescurrent autoblocks)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Castilan"

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So now I learned that you can not copy and paste your own entry from one article into another, even though the topics are the same and you wrote the entry.
I also learned that Wikipedia is constantly updating and validating their sources and entries.

Maybe I can use a diffrent computer with a diffrent IP address and create a diffrent user name in order to make another entry. This time, I'll be more careful with my citations and references. I thought I had a valid reference, but they considered it SPAM.

1 comment:

S. Chandler said...

Angela - wow - that was an experience! Maybe you can write to Natalie, explain that you were a new user, and ask for some advice for how to open out the posting in the way you had in mind (how you can make your point, contribute your information).

Good luck!

Be sure to post what you posted on your blog so we can all learn something about wikipedia's practices.

Good job!