User talk:Ethiopic

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[edit] ethiopic.com

Regarding links to

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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Thank you.

You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. Femto 14:05, 27 May 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. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 13:14, 9 July 2007 (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 as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. — Gareth Hughes 22:17, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aberra Molla

Hi Ethiopic. With regards to Aberra Molla, I deleted the article under criterion for speedy deletion A1 because it was a "Very short articles providing little or no context." After all, the only content was the person's name, which I don't think is quite enough for an encyclopedia article. If you intend to recreate the article, please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Thanks. Picaroon (t) 02:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. With regards to the use of Ethiopic vs Geez, I think your best bet is to bring it up at the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia, a group of users who work to make our Ethiopia content better and actively edit it. (I rarely edit Ethiopia articles anymore, which is why I'm not the best person to take this up with.) Picaroon (t) 21:20, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I've replied on my talk page. Picaroon (t) 01:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've created the article Aberra Molla based on the source you provided and some other pages I found via Google. Please fix it if there is anything incorrect, and feel free to add your name in Ethiopic like in the lead of Haile Selassie (I always think this is a nice touch in articles, even if it isn't that useful). Also, if you own the copyright to this image of you, or the really nice on of you and and the emperor here, could you please consider licensing one of them under the GFDL and uploading it to add to the article? Picaroon (t) 01:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Picaroon: You can use my picture and thanks for understanding me. Aberra

You're welcome. Which picture is it that you are okay with me uploading, this one? Remember that by releasing your picture under the GFDL, you're giving up nearly all your rights to it, and anyone, not just Wikipedia, can use it as long as they abide by the terms of the license. Picaroon (t) —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 02:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ethiopic.com

This is your last warning.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Blin language, 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. — Gareth Hughes 16:41, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Garzo:

As a person who computerized Ethiopic, an alphabet used by many languages, I was just trying to correct the spelling errors you introduced and direct them to a source or reference. I was not trying to advertise Ethiopic.com and Wikipedia does not have links to my site.

On the other hand, you are the ones who promote web sites and products. Below is an example for Omniglot.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_script

[edit] Image tagging for Image:DrAberraMolla-1-.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:DrAberraMolla-1-.gif. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 06:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I created the gif and uploaded to add it to your "Aberra Molla" page as

GFDL I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

. The source is http://www.ethiopic.com/Dr._Aberra_Molla_Ethiopic.htm

Thanks! Aberra

[edit] March 2008

You have been blocked for a period of 1 week 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.

-- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

  • User has been previously warned about "ethiopic.com" external links. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)