Gallery-of-art
Welcome!
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Gallery-of-art! I am Becky Sayles and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Wikipedia:Questions, or feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
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- How to write a great article
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome!
March 2011
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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. Thank you....Modernist (talk) 18:57, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Please add references to your edits, they resemble WP:OR thank you...Modernist (talk) 18:59, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. 99.156.66.48 (talk) 21:45, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Spamlinks
editBefore deleting anymore links that you do not like - I suggest that you discuss first here: Wikipedia talk:Spam, thank you...Modernist (talk) 20:24, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
March 2011
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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ...Modernist (talk) 21:09, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Van Gogh Museum, you may be blocked from editing. ...Modernist (talk) 21:11, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Response
editHere's my take so far - I think several of your edits and your text additions to articles that I have seen look good but need references to reliable sources. Your external links basically need to be used in context with the articles in which you are adding them. There are certain external links that seem to have the ok or the consensus of the visual arts project and the spam project - that are tolerated - like the few that you deleted the other day. My advise is to first - learn to reference your edits; if you add a link make sure it is in relationship to the text in the article perhaps as a second reference...Modernist (talk) 11:11, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Your recent edits
edit Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four halfwidth tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button 
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 06:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Personal attacks
edit Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you....Modernist (talk) 22:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we must insist that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you....Modernist (talk) 22:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
I have already advised you as to how to include information into articles, instead all you seem to do is add your website to external links; and you have deleted valid external links. I would suggest that you learn how to properly edit here before attacking others, please read this - WP:AGF...Modernist (talk) 22:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Editing tips for newcomers
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Stay polite and reasonable, and if you mess up, let the other person know you're a new editor, so they understand it's not deliberate. Avoid battles and serial reversions or you'll get a block: see WP:3RR. Leave it for a bit and work on something else instead.
See how other people interpret things, and also what other people are doing wrong, so you can avoid it. Check out WP:AN/I and WP:AFD to get an idea of how things are viewed.
Never put your own knowledge, views or analysis in an article. Everything has to come from a sound published source. First of all find a good source—something mainstream, not a blog or a fan site. See what it says and use that information, but paraphrase it: never copy and paste. Then put in a reference to show where the information came from. Referencing is key to good editing. You should be especially careful when adding material about living people.
Some of the coding (mark up) on Wiki is difficult, or other things like categories might not be easy to work out. Find another article similar to the one you're working on, click the edit button, then copy the relevant code, categories, stub notice or whatever, and paste it into your own article, changing the text where necessary. You can also do this for the coding for images (NB no need to specify "right": that's the default). There's a row of useful buttons above the edit box (highlight the text, then click the button) and various options below it.
It is also a very good idea to study existing articles to see how they are written, the tone used, the headings and references etc, but make sure you look at one that's done well. The highest standard is a featured article: check some out.
It's best to get experience before you do this. However, the first thing is to make sure the subject is notable. This means that it has to be written about in existing sources (see "Content" above). To be on the safe side, prepare it in a user sub-page (aka sandbox), where it will be safe, and get an experienced editor to check it out before uploading it to the main encyclopedia (aka article space).
You can create extra pages from your user page. Type:
on your user page or talk page. Then click the red link to start the page. Obviously replace "Tyrenius" with your own user name. You can change "Draft" to any title you prefer. You can create several such pages for different purposes.
Make your own reference store of all the things you find useful—coding, templates, links to useful pages, names of editors you might want to consult etc. You can do this on your user page or create a sub-page for it.
If you want your edits to last and your articles to be kept, the key is to reference them. You can put the guide below on your user or talk page by pasting:
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Referencing
editWikipedia:Referencing for beginners...Modernist (talk) 23:38, 5 April 2011 (UTC)