MarkWest1

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October 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Santa Cruz, California has been reverted.
Your edit here to Santa Cruz, California was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdlY2mdbbL0/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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) 07:51, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

January 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Napa, California. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 15:53, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Napa, California. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 16:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Napa, California, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 15:38, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Napa, California. DVdm (talk) 15:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

June 2012

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Napa, California. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 02:06, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

December 2012

Hello, I'm TheArguer. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Napa, California, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks,  TheArguer  _{SAY HI!} 21:10, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

January 2013

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Napa, California, without verifying it by citing reliable sources. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 04:21, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Napa, California. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 22:15, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Gtwfan52. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Fresno, California, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Since you attributed the information to an author you must have enough information to provide a citation. Instructions will follow on how to reference on Wikipedia. Gtwfan52 (talk) 20:15, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy

Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
2. Then click on "Templates".
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
4. Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
5. Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
6. Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

• Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header   ==References==   is near the end of the article.
• And check that   {{Reflist}}    is directly underneath that header.

7.  Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Gtwfan52 (talk) 20:16, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

• To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

March 2013

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Little Italy, San Diego, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 15:43, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at History of San Diego, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Binksternet (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

I have filed an investigation regarding your contributions to Wikipedia. You are welcome to respond to the accusations by going to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Goldenbearpress and adding your views in the section marked "Comments by other users". Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 02:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

April 2013

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Goldenbearpress. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 18:53, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

May 2013

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Little Italy, San Diego. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 03:22, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

How to get H.Res.287 back into wikipedia

Hi Mark, I noticed your request for help with this topic. Because your edits in the past were contentious, and reverted, the way to get the content back into the article is to work out the trouble on the article's talk-page. Wikipedia is all about finding consensus, and sometimes that means it takes (way) longer to get an article edited than it should. That's par for the course, however, so just take things slow and easy. I've found a couple of reliable sources for you -- CNN and an AP article -- which pretty firmly establish the encyclopedic notability of the H.Res.287 in particular, and of the Hoyer/Merkel/LibraryOfCongress work in general. Now the hard work begins: you and binksternet will have to compose -- on the talkpage only at first! -- a paragraph which gives the facts, as justified by the cites. No embellishing the facts with original research, though, as you probably know by now. If some reliable neutral source has not said it, wikipedia is not supposed to print it. That's the theory, anyways. Below are the links you can click to see what I've put together, and to make your own comments and contributions. Good luck. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 08:50, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Martin_Waldseemüller#Reviving_an_old_edit_war_over_the_notability_of_H.Res.287

Talk:Martin_Waldseemüller#Discussion_of_the_notability_of_H.Res.287.2C_with_reliable_citations_related_thereto

Talk:Martin_Waldseemüller#New_Copy_of_.27America.27s_Birth_Certificate.27_Found_in_Munich_-_July_2012