User talk:JCarlsonUPL

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September 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 Utica Public Library has been reverted.
Your edit here to Utica Public Library 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.facebook.com/uticapubliclibrary, http://www.facebook.com/uticapubliclibrary.youthservices, http://www.facebook.com/uticapubliclibrary, http://www.facebook.com/uticapubliclibrary.youthservices) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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) 14:21, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JCarlsonUPL. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Odie5533 (talk) 14:28, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Utica Public Library

Hi! I'm glad you want to improve the article Utica Public Library. Here is a short Wikipedia:Tutorial to get you started. The problem with the content you added to the article is that the content is unencyclopedic in nature. Listing things like hours, phone numbers, mission statements, and current events is best left your website to contain, which is linked to at the bottom and in the infobox. As an example, here are a few good articles that are about libraries which you could use to base your contributions on: Oregon Public Library, Blackstone Library, and The Valley Library. Please let me know if you need any more help, and be sure to read the Welcome information at the top of your talk page. --Odie5533 (talk) 14:42, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]