User talk:195.54.230.14

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Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. Image:Monkeyman.pngMonkeyman(talk) 19:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. Image:Monkeyman.pngMonkeyman(talk) 13:43, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] socialaffairsunit.org.uk

The links you have removed are not commercial or spam. For example the articles you removed from the Maurice Cowling piece are discussions of his work by the author of his festschrift Michael Bentley and by the very prominent historian Jeremy Black - both regarded as the leading experts on Maurice Cowling. The articles you have removed from Portrait of a Lady are by the Thomas Wharton Professor of English. They are not commercial and certainly not spam. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.54.230.14 (talk • contribs).

Hi 195.54.230.14. I am not questioning the credentials of these authors. It is the manner in which you are adding these links to Wikipedia that I have a problem with. Please take a look at your edit history, it consists entirely of adding external links to the socialaffairsunit website. Do you work for them or are you affiliated with them? It is considered bad form to link to one's own website. The links on the socialaffairsunit site have what appear to be Amazon reference codes. Are you earning a profit from clickthrus? Please considering signing up for a Wikipedia account and discussing the merits of these links on the article talkpages before adding them. We have a very serious spam problem at Wikipedia and unfortunately have had to take a strong stand against external links. Image:Monkeyman.pngMonkeyman(talk) 14:05, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
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