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[edit] February 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Max Valier do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.  

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\blulu\.com' (link(s): http://www.lulu.com/content/706500) .
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) 23:33, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice.

[edit] February 2008

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Erle Cox. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it.  

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\blulu\.com' (link(s): http://www.lulu.com/content/232843) .
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) 23:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice.

[edit] February 2008

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Ray Cummings. 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.  

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\blulu\.com' (link(s): http://www.lulu.com/content/232843) .
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) 23:51, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice.

[edit] February 2008

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Robert Paltock, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from all of Wikipedia. 

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\blulu\.com' (link(s): http://www.lulu.com/content/232843) .
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) 23:54, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please ignore this notice.


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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. Ѕandahl 00:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

This blocked user (block log | autoblocks | rangeblocks | unblock | contribs | deleted contribs) has asked to be unblocked, but an administrator has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock request while you are blocked.

Request reason: "All of my additions were made within a few minutes, so there was no possibility of discovering the warnings before I was blocked. I would certainly have not continued had I been aware of them. In any case, the links were not for commercial reasons, but to advise Wikipedia users of unique editions of the books involved: in most cases, the titles referred to are available only through Black Cat Press---which sells the books at cost---so that they are in fact a special resource for readers and researchers that are not available anywhere else. In some cases, the titles involved are available solely through Black Cat Press. I can only imagine that the "spamming" label was attached because these links were posted within a short time and would not have been applied if, say, they had been made over a period of months. In any event, I think you would be doing your readers a disservice by eliminating these links."

Decline reason: "The first warning was after your first edit...yet you continued for another half hour. The links are commercial. — IrishGuy talk 00:22, 4 February 2008 (UTC)"

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Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Apology is accepted :) Think user understand

Request handled by: →AzaToth 01:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question regarding links...

Let me ask this, then... Obviously it is possible to add links to commercial sites. After all, it was seeing the link to the publisher of English translations of Villiers l'Isle-Adam's works that inspired what I did in the first place. So surely the rules have some flexibility. My sole motive was to make known to Wikipedia users the existence of unique editions of important books. Many of the titles I listed are available absolutely nowhere else. In cases where titles duplicate those listed by Gutenberg, the Black Cat books are substantially different. For instance, the Black Cat edition of Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" is a new, scholarly translation, and while the Black Cat text of Verne's "Off on a Comet" is based on the same 19th century source as Gutenberg's, it has scores of translation errors corrected and is also significantly longer, having all of the deleted or missing text replaced. Most Black Cat editions feature notes and end matter prepared by experts in the appropriate field of study, as well as all of a book's original illustrations, if any. Since it would not seem particularly useful to deny Wikipedia users resources such as these, let me make this suggestion: While it is necessary to charge for the actual production costs of a print edition, it would be entirely possible to offer a downloadable pdf version of the contents of a book entirely free of any cost. I would imagine the Wikipedia link could even be made to the pdf file directly, bypassing even any mention of the existence of a print version. Would this satisfy Wikipedia standards? Thanks, Ron Miller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Miller_%28artist_and_author%29)