User talk:84.52.172.231

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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. Rklawton 14:09, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from an article. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ walkie-talkie 09:14, 16 June 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] July 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. Thank you. --Van helsing 17:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Please, don't be an ignorant watchdog. e.g., If you remove some useful Congo related news link, which I posted, why don't you remove some others "commercial links" from that page too?! Selective criteria or what? Also, I saw that you "automatically" removed some old external links related to some South-Slavic bookstore and some South-Slavic authors. What do you really know about related topics and usefulness of that links? Did you discuss removing of that links with anyone? Now, I'll revert your changes and place the links back and if it's necessary I'll gladly be watchdog for your contribs.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.52.172.231 (talk • contribs)
"Ignorant watchdog"? Well, I certainly didn’t expect you to be very glad about it :-), but I will try to make it up to you. I will not revert you link inclusions again, instead I will give it to the guys at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam. However, I will also explain why I have a problem with your links:
  • The sole intention of the Gerila links is to sell books, CD’s and movies, or "promotion and distribution" in their own words.
  • The majority of the Gerila links are incomprehensible by our readership, non-English, and well... this is still an English wikipedia.
  • The inclusion of those Gerila & RamblerNews links are your sole contribution to this wikipedia, making me think you have a conflict of interest concern. Please don’t keep adding the same site to many articles (see point 5 here).
  • Your IP resolves to Ljubljana, Slovenia; and surprise, your bookstore has a seat there as well, strengthening the WP:COI concern.
  • You are even replacing links to the official English site of an author with your bookstore links. [1]
  • Your RamblerNews.com is related to Gerila.com, as their main pages link quite obvious to each other.
  • You keep adding your links as reference, while reference sections are for references not general external links (see WP:SPAM#How not to be a spammer).
If these points don’t convince you, please see for further info WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided.
Regarding your arguments "my link is useful" & "there are other commercial links" please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam#Common spammer strawmen. Hope that clarifies a bit. --Van helsing 10:22, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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.
Please do not add links to:
--A. B. (talk) 11:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Also:
Adsense IS: 1151296085503341
Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 11:50, 21 July 2007 (UTC)