GaryMols

Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Regarding your recent addition of a link to the http://www.herbmols.com/ website: Adding such a link to the body of the article, as you did, is not in keeping with Wikipedia guidelines with regard to linking to external material. I did, however, look through the website, and I'd suggest that linking to the 1972 Olympic basketball section of that website in the External Links section of the article would be a wholly appropriate and indeed quite welcome addition. I know that as I find time in the coming days, I'll certainly be perusing the material there in much greater detail. Mwelch (talk) 08:01, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Mr. Mols,

Per the items already here on your talk page, you've already been informed that linking to the herbmols.com website from the body of a Wikipedia article is not appropriate, according to Wikipedia guidelines. As such, it would be appreciated if you'd consider discontinuing the practice. Mwelch (talk) 04:43, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback

See above.

Lectonar (talk) 07:42, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

 

Welcome!

Hello, GaryMols, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was United States men's national basketball team, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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This also applies to your contributions to Empire State Games. Please avoid writing coat rack articles by placing unrelated details about Herbert Mols' life in articles where he is mentioned. Also, please be aware about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on verifiable edits and using reliable sources. Unfortunately, most personal websites are not considered reliable even if the information on them is entirely true. You might consider starting an article on Herbert Mols if he meets the notability test.—Bagumba (talk) 17:29, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

August 2012

Hello, I'm Bagumba. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page United States men's national basketball team, because to me it seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thanks, —Bagumba (talk) 16:48, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to United States men's national basketball team. 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. —Bagumba (talk) 20:43, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

WP:3O

I removed your note at the 3rd Opinion noticeboard, as it was not formatted properly. You should add a request by linking on the provided link. Or you can click here. Doniago (talk) 20:45, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

It looked like your edit was addressed specifically to me. User talk:Bagumba would be the right place to leave me a personal message. At any rate, WP:GREATWRONGS and WP:ADVOCACY seem relevant to your situation. Let me know if you have further questions. In the meantime, I would recommend refraining from re-adding links to external websites until a consensus is reached.—Bagumba (talk) 20:53, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I would agree wholeheartedly with Bagumba's identification of WP:GREATWRONGS and WP:ADVOCACY as being applicable to this situation and would encourage you to take the time to read them to help you achieve a greater understanding of what Wikipedia is and what it is not. While I completely and understand and sympathize with the goals you stated in your above-mentioned edit, your pursuit of those goals through publishing to Wikipedia is an attempt to use Wikipedia in a manner for which it is not intended and which its editors have determined is neither appropriate nor acceptable.

One other thing I would add: You mentioned that you were approached for the HBO and ESPN documentaries. (I assume you're referring to George Roy's :03 From Gold for HBO and the ESPN SportsCentury documentary about the 1972 gold medal game.) If any of the information you contributed to those documentaries was used in them, is not yet reflected in the article, and seems to you to be of relevance, then fyou might try adding that information and cite the documentary as the source. (Or even better, first discussing the material you have in mind on the article's talk page, which would allow other editors, who have no conflict of interest in being directly connected to the material as you are, to offer their assessments of whether the material in question would make for a beneficial addition to the article.) That would allow for the contribution of at least that portion of your/your father's material without violating Wikipedia's prohibition against original research. Mwelch (talk) 21:42, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, GaryMols. You have new messages at Bagumba's talk page.
Message added 22:06, 18 August 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—Bagumba (talk) 22:06, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Citing sources

WP:CITE explains how to cite sources in articles. I went ahead and formatted the reference you recently added to Empire State Games.—Bagumba (talk) 23:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

YouTube video link

I just wanted to let you know that I've had to remove your recent addition to Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Your addition was a link to a YouTube video of an NBC newscast about the gold medal game and its ensuing controversy. While it is unquestionalby an interesting addition, unfortunately, your posting such a video on your own to YouTube is pretty clear infringement on NBC's copyright, so Wikipedia cannot link to it. (Note that this copyright issue is also why the article also does not link to any of the many readily available YouTube videos of the actual game broadcast.) If it's any consolation, though, please know that that exact newscast was one of the sources I used myself in writing the prose I contributed to the article and I cited it as a reference. And indeed the entire reason I found it in the first place is because you came here and mentioned your father's name, which prompted me to search on his name and that newscast was one of the things that I found when I did so. Mwelch (talk) 22:35, 2 July 2013 (UTC)