Digital villager

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{{helpme}} I am seeking help to improve the tone and quality of some BLP pages. I have requested adoption and have had no response. Any guidance will be deeply appreciated. Digital Villager 04:00, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Could you be more specific in your tone/quality concerns? Adoption requests are sort of slow right now, but you can consider asking a user who works with BLPs a lot if you have questions about them. Maybe ask Tony Sidaway? /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 04:16, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

October 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Gary U.S. Bonds 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.youtube.com/user/globalvillagechamps#p/u/0/Kc1bI5REmug. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video 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) 23:04, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Justin Time Records 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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.  
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.youtube.com/user/globalvillagechamps#p/u/7/iHpH275nHBo. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video 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) 11:46, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Adoption request

Hello there, Digital villager! I'm Netalarm and I've been around on Wikipedia for quite some time now. It appears that you've indicated that you want to be adopted on your user page. While you can wait for an adopter to come forward and offer to adopt you, I would highly recommend that you also actively seek an adopter. From the cases I've seen, I've noticed that it is often much faster if the adoptee also actively participates in the matching process.

When choosing an adopter (click here for a list), there are a few things you'll want to check. First of all, you'll want to check if they are available. The column with the label "Adoption status" will tell you if they are able to accept more adoptees. You may also want to choose an adopter that has similar interests, which are indicated in the "Interests" column, though it is not required you do so. Once you have found an adopter you want, you may message them on their talk page and ask to be adopted. If you have any questions about this process (or about Wikipedia in general), feel free to message me on my talk page.

Click here to view a full list of adopters

Once again, welcome to Wikipedia! Netalarm^talk 04:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Note on signing edits

Hi! Just to let you know, you don't need to sign your edit summaries with four tildes (~~~~). When you view an article's history page (e.g., Revision history of Gusi Peace Prize), you'll be able to tell who made certain edits. Thanks and happy editing! Guoguo12--Talk--  16:59, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

BLP Articles

Hello; if you are still active, I'd be quite happy helping you learn how to work on BLP articles. Cheers, Sloggerbum (talk) 05:59, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Heya, what'd you have in mind :) I've created a sandbox, if you'd like to talk about things off your talk page: Sandbox Sloggerbum (talk) 17:50, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello Digital Villager,

I'm so sorry for not responding to you earlier; I've come to realize that unless someone actually leaves me a quick note on my talk page, I'm relatively oblivious to other messages. (When a note is left on a talk page, Wikipedia promptly informs the user with a hard-to-miss box saying you have new messages).

I'd be happy to help, if you are still interested in guidance please feel free to write me any questions on my talk page, or on the BLP draft, and with a quick note on my talk page letting me know you've updated it.

Vandalism is indeed a big, messy part of Wikipedia. As a result, there are many pages on Wikipedia that are closely guarded by "senior" editors (just editors that have been around awhile and have earned certain administrative privileges), particularly if those pages are prone to being constantly vandalized. A similar effect can happen if a page (typically a very popular page with lots of fans) is constantly changed by people who don't understand Wikipedia guidelines. Not all "vandalism" is actually vandalism, some of it is simply people with good intentions who don't know how to navigate Wikipedia, or don't understand neutrality and citation.

Ali's page is no doubt protected because it has a history of being vandalized. In many situations, "confirmed users" can still edit protected pages. To be a confirmed user, you have to have made at least ten edits on live Wikipedia entries.

Are you still interested in working on the entries for Gary U.S. Bonds and Yank Barry? If so, feel free to let me know on my talk page, and I'll be happy to help get you started. As a heads up, the key element to adding information to a Wikipedia page is making sure that you cite the information. Uncited info is usually deleted.

Hope you are doing well, it is finally sunny in Seattle, hopefully it is in Toronto as well. Happy recent Anniversary! Sloggerbum (talk) 05:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC) (also, you can sign your name after a post by typing four tildes, or ~ symbols; this will help other editors know who you are if you write on their talk boards)

By the way, excellent job reverting vandalism on the Gary U.S. Bonds page, it seems you are taking to police work like a natural. Hopefully you'll continue your efforts, Wikipedia is always in need of such folk (especially since you properly and tactfully explained your edits in the history log). (If you notice that a specific IP address seems to be the sole vandal, I'm sure we can find an administrator with WikiGoon characteristics who could help you ban them from the page. I myself am clueless when it comes to policework, as I generally haven't worked on any pages prone to vandalism). Sloggerbum (talk) 06:11, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Sandbox

Hi DV, great to hear from you, response in sandbox. Sloggerbum (talk) 18:42, 8 July 2011 (UTC)