User talk:Reidweaver

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[edit] February 2008

Your recent edit to Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses/phone numbers or Imageshack/Photobucket/Flickr or related links to a non-talk page. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II (talk) 17:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses/phone numbers or Imageshack/Photobucket/Flickr or related links to a non-talk page. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II (talk) 18:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses/phone numbers or Imageshack/Photobucket/Flickr or related links to a non-talk page. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II (talk) 02:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses/phone numbers or Imageshack/Photobucket/Flickr or related links to a non-talk page. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II (talk) 03:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome (diff) was reverted by an automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a hosting or shared IP address to add email addresses/phone numbers or Imageshack/Photobucket/Flickr or related links to a non-talk page. You can restore any other content by editing the page and re-adding that content. The links can be reviewed and restored by established users. Thank you for contributing! // VoABot II (talk) 03:13, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

This blocked user (block log | autoblocks | rangeblocks | unblock | contribs | deleted contribs) has asked to be unblocked, but an administrator has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock request while you are blocked.

Request reason: "I am not vandalizing, I am simply trying to add another support group to the bottom of this page"

Decline reason: "Looking through your contributions, I see that the only edits you have made are to put this link onto the article several times after it should have been obvious to you that they were being subsequently reverted. What this appears to me to be is a single purpose count created to promote a website. As such, I have very little hope that any meaningful edits will come from you in the future and thus, no reason to override my peer's decision to block you. — Trusilver 04:03, 3 February 2008 (UTC)"

Please make any further unblock requests by using the {{unblock}} template. However, abuse of the template may result in your talk page being protected.

I see I'm too late to respond to the unblock request, but I'll offer a few observations anyway:

  • The edits that reidweaver was making to Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome not only inserted a GeoCities link, but also removed a broken link (now fixed) to a Yahoo group, improved the formatting of mess of broken text (now removed), removed an e-mail address (also now removed), and removed a link to another support group.
  • The Yahoo link, broken text and email address were inserted by 24.154.41.209 (talk · contribs) about 40 minutes before reidweaver's first edit.
  • The welcome page for the Yahoo group inserted by the anon IP mentions "reidweaver".
  • The GeoCities link contains "reidweaver" in the URL.
  • Although the GeoCities site in question likely does not qualify as a reliable source, it seems informative and well-intentioned.
  • The text of the VoABot warning above does not make it clear what part of the edit is objectionable, and is a rather confusing collection of possibilities.

I would therefore conclude that:

  • This user, the anon IP, the moderator of the Yahoo group, and the maintainer of the GeoCities site are all the same person.
  • This user was making a good faith attempt to insert support group information.
  • This user was unable to determine from the warning messages what the problem with his edits was.

I am inclined to unblock this user, and will raise the matter for discussion. In the meantime, the user is recommended to read WP:EL, WP:COI and WP:SPAM. Bovlb (talk) 07:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I've had no response from the blocking admin, and I have an acquiescence from the admin who declined the unblock request, so I'm going to unblock. Please follow our policies on external links and conflict of interest carefully. I you are determined so see your site linked here, you may want to propose your website on the talk page of the article, explaining why it meets policy, or discuss it here. On no account should you keep making the same change again and again if you find yourself reverted, or you will find yourself blocked again. Oh, and here's a more friendly welcome ...

Welcome!

Hello, Reidweaver, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!

Bovlb (talk) 19:33, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate your help. I am Reidweaver and the link to the website is a web version of a brochure I wrote for the National Osteonecrosis Foundation (part of Johns Hopkins University) and it was published by the foundation after being reviewed by doctors, to give to parents at the point of diagnosis of Legg Perthes disease. The link for the support group needed correcting as well. Thanks you so much for rectifying all this. I thought the reason my edits were reverting was because I was making an error that I could not figure out. So I kept trying to make changes to see if that corrected the situation. I had no idea it was being perceived as vandalism. My faith in Wikipedia is restored. Much abliged.