User talk:Tellinghistory

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Contents 1 Regarding your edit to Williamson County, Tennessee: 2 New pages 3 Unspecified source for Image:Mcg3.jpg 4 General Gordon 5 blog 6 Your recent link additions

[edit] Regarding your edit to Williamson County, Tennessee:

Your recent edit to Williamson County, Tennessee (diff) was reverted by automated bot. You have been identified as a new user or a logged out editor using a shared IP address to add email addresses, phone numbers, YouTube, Geocities, Myspace, Facebook, blog, or forum links to a page. Please note that such links are generally to be avoided. 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 17:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New pages

Welcome to Wikipedia! Always great to have new editors and new articles. I see that Mcgavock Confederate Cemetery appears to be just a (large) excerpt from Carnton. If there's enough material about the cemetery, just off-load it into its own page and link to it. However, if the cemetery information is too intertwined with other aspects of the planatation and its buildings, better to leave it all in one page and have the cemetery just redirect to that page. Let me know if you need help with any of this...wikipedia can be daunting for new editors. DMacks 05:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you.

Also, we do have some editorial standards here, often referred to as the Manual of Style (WP:MOS). You can see from the edit summaries that I twice fixed a MOS mistake relating to the See also section, which you twice undid with no explanation. Please try to follow the Manual of Style (or at least let others help you do so) unless you can explain why going against those guidelines is appropriate. DMacks 15:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Mcg3.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Mcg3.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 16:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Qst 16:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General Gordon

You added a statement that Gordon led troops in a particular battle, and where the dead are buried. This seems like too much detail for one battle of many where he led troops, and the fact of where the dead were buried just does not seem that important in the context of his overall career, although clearly it might be interesting to people from that town or descendants of those buried there. But please consider adding a section on his Civil War military career, which would improve the article. It should be referenced to reliable histories, of which some are online. Thanks. Edison 18:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] blog

Sorry, but I am going to revert a number of the blog links you've been adding. See WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided, items 3 and 11. (I presume you're not a "recognized authority" since you don't post under your own name.) Wikipedia is not a forum for providing publicity to other websites in this way. By the way, if you add more appropriate links in the future, we use a general practice of adding them to the bottom of the list, our in groups with other related sites, not the top of the list. Thanks for your cooperation. Hal Jespersen 23:10, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent link additions

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 policy for further explanations. Since 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Michaelbusch 23:26, 8 November 2007 (UTC)