User talk:Avidreaderofbooks

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Hi I think you've got a little confused about where to create a new article. You don't add it to a template but should create a new article e.g. Matt Robinson (poet)

~~I've pasted your text below so you can copy and paste it into the new article.~~Now removed You should read Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons before creating the article especially the part about providing references otherwise there is a substantial risk that the article will be deleted. NtheP (talk) 20:57, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, your first article. I've amended some of the links to make them specific e.g. Halifax and added some categories but it's all minor compared to your good work. NtheP (talk) 22:02, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

January 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 Matt Robinson (Poet) has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.mattrobinsonpoet.wordpress.com.
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) 22:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]