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June 2021

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Anthony DeStefano has been reverted.
Your edit here to Anthony DeStefano was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (https://www.newsmax.com/insiders/anthonydestefano/bio-548/) 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) 22:37, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Please help me! I spent hours and hours editing this page, and was meticulous to put in all the correct references. Now the whole article has been reverted and all that work wasted because of ONE website. PLEASE help me!!!

I as able to restore the page using the guidelines provided here. Thank you.

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Anthony DeStefano, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. Here's the thing: if you have to add Amazon links to prove the book exists, that's pretty sad. Find proper secondary sources please, and if they don't exist, don't insert the content. Drmies (talk) 01:36, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

I will attempt to go about these revisions without "disruptive editing". I will use secondary sources, but what is frustrating is that there are legitimate revisions, which have taken time to research-- for instance the NY Times article-- which have been completely cut from the article. I will add these to the most current reverted version. I am not trying to be disruptive, nor "advertising." Everything in this article has been factual. The Amazon sources were a mistaeke- not an attempt to be disruptive.