Nnnooottt

Recent edit to Apatheism

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the Apatheism article, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. You may find our linking guidelines helpful in this regard. 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! Materialscientist (talk) 06:58, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

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I don't understand. If I was writing about brown bears, I would be including a picture of a brown bear. I'm writing about apatheism, and how proselytizers are frustrated with apatheists, and I include a link which perfectly illustrates it. the link I provide is probably the best illustration of my point I could possibly make. I do not understand why it is a problem. Honestly, it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to make this answer, and I am in no way confident that I did it in a place and manner that gives me reason to believe it will be read by the appropriate party. As for posting things, I try to keep an objective tone, but when I tried to find a place where I could understand what the problem with posting the link was, I fell down a rabbit hole. It appears that there is a ten thousand word answer to every problem here. Which, if that is the only sort of answer I can get, I will probably have to bow out. As for the specific edit that someone made, I can see if from one point or another, or because of some ten thousand word rule or other someone thinks it appropriate to remove a link, but when I have written: "here is a good example of what I have been describing [link]" then if you remove the link without editing the rest it just winds up looking like nonsense. Then you need to edit the rest in such a way that what is left makes sense. And whoever did the editing, and responded: I went onto your page and it said please reply at the bottom, I could not find it. Is there a way to communicate directly about this? I have no idea whether I will be able to find my way back here, or whether it is ok to leave my email address here or where to go find out whether it is ok. Nnnooottt (talk) 17:04, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Nnnooottt (talk) 17:04, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

1. It's not recommended to leave your email address visible in WP postings.
2. User talk pages, like this one, are fairly good for communicating with the respective user, since any time you change a user's page, they will be notified (as they've selected through their notification settings).
3. As for your brown bear example, including a picture of a brown bear is not a simple matter of adding a link to a picture you have found somewhere on the internet or which resides on your own computer. If you were writing for your own website, you might be able to do that. Here, on Wikipedia, the photo would have to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and you would have to either be the photographer or otherwise give proof that the photograph is released under a license that it compatible with use on Wikipedia.
4. So, yes, everything can turn into a 10,000-word rabbit hole. It can be both frustrating and discouraging.
5. I do not see that you have taken the Wikipedia Adventure tutorial. It's silly in a way, but it tries to teach some very basic ideas about how WP works and how you can contribute. I think you would likely benefit from it.
6. One way to edit another user's user page is to use the "New section" button/tab that appears in the desktop interface at the top of the display of the page.
7. Another way is to edit the whole page, and add your new section to the bottom of the edit window.

I'll leave the more specific issues about Apatheism on Talk:Apatheism. The talk page of an article is the main place that the content of the article should be discussed. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:46, 7 October 2018 (UTC)