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Wikipedia is fun and you can learn a lot. If you have a really good edit it will probably be kept. Good luck. Scifiintel (talk) 21:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Request for help

{{helpme}} I am sorry if I broke any rules as I am very new to this process.

I added a picture (I thought ) and did not change anyone text or delete anyone material so I am unaware of any edit reversal. Please help me understand how adding a picture of a device discussed in an article is wrong. Again I am trying to add supporting content not take away from anyone. Possibly I need to learn how to add a section versus editing an existing one. Please help me know where I went wrong.

Thank you.

Mckeeman (talk) 23:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)Mckeeman

Bruce

Hi Bruce. Your edits were reverted by an automated bot, because adding the same image to many articles is often a pattern of spammers or vandals. I've looked at your edits, and they seem to be fine, so maybe try adding the image to one or two articles. I hope this helps. – Toon^(talk) 23:21, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Mckeeman (talk) 23:25, 11 April 2009 (UTC)McKeeman

Got it, thank you. We are so passionate about this information I was maybe too exurberant!

Actually, scratch that, I'm seeing bots where there are no bots. They were reverted by a real user, as he is concerned that you may be giving undue weight to a certain therapy. My advice remains the same, however, adding the image to a couple of articles is fine, but don't go overboard. Eubulides has some good advice, too. Best, – Toon^(talk) 23:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

No, actually, that's incorrect: the edits were not reverted by a bot. They were reverted by humans as part of the WP:BRD process. Wikipedia cannot accept just any material; it needs material that is verifiable and is supported by a reliable source. In medical articles particularly, high-quality sources are needed; please see WP:MEDRS for details. Even when there are some reliable sources promoting a therapy, WP:WEIGHT must be taken into account: that is, the article can't unduly promote one therapy over another. Eubulides (talk) 23:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Image of hyperbaric oxygen chamber

When you added an image of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to lots of different articles[1][2][3][4][5][6][7], those edits were reverted because of concerns that they caused the Wikipedia articles to unduly promote an unproven therapy for conditions like multiple sclerosis. This is a normal part of the bold, revert, discuss process of Wikipedia. The right way to respond to this is to start discussing the issue on the relevant articles' talk pages; please do not simply insist on putting the images in.

One other thing, a procedural matter. Please refrain from repeatedly undoing other people's edits, as you are doing in Treatment of multiple sclerosis. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. The three-revert rule (3RR) prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, please discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you. Eubulides (talk) 23:00, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

If there's an article on a Pontiac Firebird, then it makes sense to illustrate it with a Pontiac Firebird. But if it's an article on (say) Steve McQueen, and the article happens to mention that McQueen drove a Firebird in the 1980 film The Hunter, and someone inserts File:Pontiac Firebird (4th gen).jpg into Steve McQueen, and that's the only image of an automobile in Steve McQueen, then yes, that would be a WP:WEIGHT problem. That Firebood image does not show the Firebird that McQueen drove, and anyway, McQueen's most famous car by far was the Mustang he drove in Bullitt, so why should the article be showing a Firebird and not a Mustang? I hope you see the analogy: it's not reasonable to have an illustration for everything an article mentions; only the topics that are sufficiently important should be mentioned. In areas like cerebral palsy where HBOT is not recommended, it's weird (and misleading) to put an image of HBOT in the article. Eubulides (talk) 06:11, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

December 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Thiago Alves. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. JimVC3 (talk) 04:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:HyperbaricDive Chamber 1.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:HyperbaricDive Chamber 1.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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