User talk:SykoByte
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[edit] Welcome
Welcome!
Hello, SykoByte, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I think you've gotten off to a rocky start with Wikipedia. I would suggest you read the above links; if you have any questions, I'd be happy to assist to the best of my knowledge. EVula 22:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit warring
I urge you to stop adding your site link to serial-killer articles until you've persuaded other editors that it belongs there. It doesn't matter whether it's the worst or the best site ever created on the subject; if you can't persuade other editors that the link should stay, it's not going to. Continued reverting will only succeed in getting you blocked from editing Wikipedia, whether under WP:3RR or a slower process.
Wikipedia gets an awful lot of visitors who are not interested in improving the project, but only in using it to promote their own sites. You may not be one of them, but you are behaving in the same way they do, and that's a big part of why your edits are being rejected. If you want that to change, some recommendations:
- Respect other editors. When you're the only one attempting to include something, and more than one editor is opposed to including it, trying to bulldoze through is not a good tactic. Wikipedia editing is based on consensus, not on who can hit the edit button more times.
- Establish a 'credit rating' with uncontroversial edits. If you've been researching serial killers, you've probably learned things that would make an interesting addition to these articles. Doing so will show other editors that you're genuinely interested in helping the project, not just in self-promotion, and this will vastly increase the amount of slack they're likely to cut you.
- Familiarise yourself with basic editing conventions, and be willing to keep learning. You don't have to learn them all at once (I still have a lot of trouble keeping track of all the rules myself), but when somebody points you at a policy you've broken, the appropriate answer is along the lines of "Oops, sorry", rather than keeping on breaking that rule. I know it's hard to be polite if some of the people correcting you aren't, but it's still important.
- When you've done those things, if you still want people to consider your site, show them your best effort. Don't offer a site with just eight profiles on it and ask people to be nice because it's going to have more content on it at some later date; they're going to judge on what it's like when they see it. Wait until the site is ready, then ask other editors to consider it.
(Even if an under-construction site already has a considerable amount of content, a lot of Wikipedians will be reluctant to link to it, because we prefer to write in such a way that things aren't going to go out of date in a hurry. Stable sites are good.)
Best regards - --Calair 00:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad to see you making other edits and creating articles, but please stop adding links to your own site. This is not about one editor with a grudge against you; it's a longstanding rule of Wikipedia that editors don't promote their own sites in articles, no matter how good those sites might be. --Calair 13:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents
Since you persist in your behaviour (link spam) and continually disregard the rules and policies of Wikipedia (as well as what you are being told by other wikipedians), I have posted a message on the Administrator's noticeboard, requesting that action being taken in the matter:
If you like to state your own view of this matter, you can do so here. Or you could make it a lot easier for all of us, and accept that the rules applies to you as well as the rest of us, and quit your link spamming. /Magore 17:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stuff and whatnot
I saw on the admin noticeboard that you've read WP:EL and understand what we were droning on about; I'm really glad we've gotten all this straightened out. While I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable Wiki user out there, I'd be more than willing to answer any questions you may have in the future. Just hit me up on my talk page, and I'll do my best to help. EVula 19:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you, I appreciate that. Sorry for all the trouble. SykoByte
