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[edit] Linkspam

I'm reverting your addition of links to several pages. Please see the talk page for BI, and please be aware that the addition of multiple commercial links looks more like advertising than adding information. I'm happy to discuss the merits of a particular link, but please do not add them back in without discussion. brenneman(t)(c) 00:12, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Business intelligence. 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 that you are affiliated with, 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. ZimZalaBim (talk) 14:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue spamming you will be blocked from editing. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 15:23, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 15:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Systems intelligence. 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. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 17:50, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia.

LittleOldMe 17:57, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Business intelligence , 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. Kuru talk 20:03, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Competitive intelligence, 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. Maralia 15:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] July 2007

You have been blocked for a period of 2 days from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy 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. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. Peacent 15:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

[edit] Business Intelligence Network (Powell Media, LLC) spam on Wikipedia

Related site:

Accounts adding links to these sites or to related books:

--A. B. (talk) 21:10, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The global Wikimedia Spam Blacklist

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

If you ratchet this up 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. Your persistent spamming has gotten attention among Wikipedia admins beyond just the editors you've interacted with so far on this page. 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 hunt down all Powell Media's domains and blacklist them all as a pre-emptive defensive move.

That would be such a big time-waster for Wikipedia editors and administrators and it certainly would not be good business for you. I suggest you stop adding these links and delete the ones that are already here (click on the "linksearch" links beside each domain listed above to find them). --A. B. (talk) 21:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)