User talk:Scribe711

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Happy editing! Outsider80^(talk) 00:55, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2009

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Maya Angelou, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will accept that, as a new user, you are not familiar with all of the rules in Wikipedia. so please take note; you are continuing to add spam links to articles, in spite of being asked not to. Be advised that this is regarded as vandalism, and if you continue to do this you will be prevented from making further edits to the encyclopedia. Please check out the blue-links in this message before making ANY other edits. Also, please think of this as a last warning. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 21:08, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just this week, our author interviews were used in online content by the The Guardian of London, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/audioslideshow/2009/jan/29/johnupdike , and also by The World, a production of Public Radio International. I sorely wish that the Wikipedia editors who claim our external links are "spam" or "vandalism" had, at least, a rudimentary understanding of American literature or the patience and intelligence to take five minutes and check out our web site at http://wiredforbooks.org . Reckless and ignorant editors have done much damage to the Wikipedia project and this is a good example of that recklessness.

Our external links have been a major part of Wikipedia in past years, yet we continue to find hundreds of our links to audio interviews disabled. Many of these authors have won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, several have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many, many thousands of Wikipedia users have followed these external links and listened to the content at Wired for Books.

Please stop disabling and deleting our content. Thank you.

Scribe711 (talk) 18:58, 30 January 2009 (UTC)scribe711 David Kurz kurz@ohio.edu WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University[reply]

My friend, I am an administrator in wikipedia. That does not make me especially important - there are over 1,000 admins at present. But it does mean that I am believed to understand the basic rules and regulations of the encyclopedia, and the links which you have added (accepted, none since I warned you) are spam. Please read WP:SPAM at your earliest opportunity. If you disagree with my opinion, you are free to take your dissent to WP:AIV, or to ask any other admin whom you know to give his view. But please do not just go back to adding the link, because you will be blocked if you do.--Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 17:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

==Wired for Books==

Anthony, We added the links to our interviews to the Wikipedia project years ago and everything was fine for quite a while. Except at Wikipedia, there now seems to be an oversupply of administrators who don't have enough productive work to do, so they occupy their spare time by erasing the works of others. As I said in my previous post, these interviews are unique, they are not available anywhere else in the world, they include Nobel Laureates in Literature, such as Doris Lessing and they are only included in Wikipedia where appropriate, such as the articles on Doris Lessing or Maya Angelou, for example. I have read your about your skills and you don't appear to have any special education in literature or English. That is why it is so discouraging that you have repeatedly erased the work we have contributed here at Ohio University to the Wikipedia project. You really should resign as an editor of the project since your reckless behavior is damaging the quality of the project. Why don't you spend five minutes and investigate the source interviews at Wired for Books, http://wiredforbooks.org ? From your reply, it appears that you have not made that minimum effort, instead you simply made more threats to erase our work.

--David Kurz scribe711 Scribe711 (talk) 15:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]