User talk:207.216.185.124

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. ✤ JonHarder talk 13:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] July 2007

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Extract, transform, load. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Gscshoyru 04:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings.

This is your last warning.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Data mart, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Gscshoyru 04:08, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings.
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You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. Daniel Case 04:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The global Wikimedia Spam Blacklist

Some comments from someone who has not been involved until now:

If you push this further, it's just going to get tricky for both sides. Wikipedia is very vulnerable to spamming -- we primarily rely on warnings and they hardly stop a determined spammer such as yourself.

Our only truly effective defense is the Wikimedia Foundation's global Spam Blacklist, a software filter that blocks the addition of blacklisted links. This filter is used by all 250+ versions of Wikipedia (English, French, etc.) plus all other Wikimedia Foundation projects. Additionally, 1000 to 2000 non-Foundation sites (including Wikia) that also run on MediaWiki software default to using our spam blacklist for their own filtering. Finally, our blacklist is crawlable by major search engines and there are recurring rumours that Google and others may be consulting our list when compiling their own lists of search engine spammers to penalize.

As a result, backlisting has a potentially devastating effect on a domain extending far beyond just Wikipedia and we are reluctant to use it unless we see no other choice to defend against a spammer. If you push people around here into thinking you're going persist in spamming, it may make them feel they have no choice but to blacklist your domain as a pre-emptive defensive move. I suggest you stop adding these links and delete the ones that are already here (you can use this link to find them).

Tracking data:

Accounts:

Google Adsense ID: 6910596612166738

Take a quick look at our relevant standards:

I hope this helps stave off further trouble.
--A. B. (talk) 05:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)