User talk:7tharmddiv

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Regarding your edits to 7th Armored Division (United States):

Your recent edit to 7th Armored Division (United States) (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses, phone numbers, YouTube, Geocities, Myspace, Facebook, blog, forum, or other such free-hosting website links to a non-talk page. Please note that such links are generally to be avoided. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II 00:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

(reply from Help Desk) I've left a note on the reversion bot's talk page (I was reverted as well, by a different bot) so the links should be put back in soon. As for new information, you should be able to add new information/corrections safely; just don't include any external links to AOL-type pages, these are automatically reverted as they are the most common types of linkspam. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 04:00, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

i see you made two edits to that page (at least from this ID). The first is this where you added two external links, one a members.aol.com site, and the other a home.comcast.net site. Both of these domains indiacte that these are personal pages. Such apges are rarely reliable sources and are very often spam so this edit was automatically reverted by a script (or "bot"). Anothe editor has re-added these, and we'll get them in if they seem approptiate. Your second edit deleted the nickname "Rattlesnake Division" and that edit has not been undone. DES ^(talk) 04:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't even know how to reply to this message other than to edit it. So I hope that you receive this. Regardless of what other sites on AOL and Comcast may have on them, these are the locations of the official sites for the 7th Armored Division, and if they cannot be posted, then something is seriously wrong with Wikipedia's ability to reflect reality and truth.7tharmddiv 14:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I managed to put the Comcast site up. Unfortunately, the spam bot keeps reverting the AOL link. Is it possible to link to the AOL site from the Comcast site? -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 22:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

It has apparently reverted the Comcast site. The real problem is that Wikipedia is imposing a reality on the world that does not reflect the real reality of the world. It is sort of like saying because some people in Kentucky have done bad things, we are going to reject anything anyone from Kentucky does. Until Wikipedia can reflect reality instead of imposing its own reality, the problem with Wikipedia's own credibility will persist.7tharmddiv 23:16, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I've re-added just the Comcast site. The bot reverted both of Hdt83's edits as it rolls it back to the version by the previous editor. The problem with AOL sites is that (with rare exceptions such as this) they are generally unreliable personal websites. People will post links to personal fanpages on Wikipedia articles about celebrities. Wikipedia isn't quite as "free to edit" as many think. We have many rules about what can be added to articles and under what context, to try to maintain some semblance of professionalism. If we didn't have all the rules (and people and bots to enforce them), because of the popularity of Wikipedia, the site would quickly deteriorate into some sort of Uncyclopedia-Myspace-Youtube website. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 23:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)