User talk:Jeffer72

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Hello, Jeffer72, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Trivium (band)

Hi- generally, we don't bother including links to fansites. In the infobox, we only have a single link to the official website, and fansites aren't really consistent with our external link guidelines anyway. J Milburn (talk) 19:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Just a comment... if it is in fact the band's Official Fan Club, doesn't that actually make it acceptable? I genuinely don't know. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 19:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, it would make it acceptable, but not preferable. However, because the current external link leads to a portal (leading to the main site, MySpace, YouTube and the fan club) there's no need to have separate links to all four. Jeffer: Regarding your email, I've read it, I would just prefer we kept the discussion on Wikipedia. J Milburn (talk) 19:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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. Thank you. Most fan clubs require registration, and anything that requires registration to be viewed usually violates our external links policy on Wikipedia. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 21:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The fan club links in the external links section are questionable. The links being added to the infoboxes is blatantly inappropriate. Please at least refrain from spamming the infoboxes. --Onorem♠Dil 01:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Britney Spears, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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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 Britney Spears 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. Thank you. Most fan clubs require registration, and anything that requires registration to be viewed usually violates our external links policy on Wikipedia. ArcAngel (talk) 16:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)


Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Usher (entertainer), you will be blocked from editing. Dustispeak and be heard! 16:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Elvis Presley

The problems with your link on the Elvis Presley article are twofold. First, it requires registration, and the external link guidelines generally advise against doing so, as the same information can usually be found elsewhere. There are exceptions, but they aren't relevant to this case. Second, you admitted yourself in an edit summary that the management of that site asked you to add the link; this creates an inherent conflict of interest. We generally don't allow people to link to sites with which they are involved, because this involvement tends to cloud their judgment as to the appropriateness of the link. Veinor (talk to me) 16:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rihanna

Thank you for your recent contribution to the Rihanna article. However, the website that you added has been removed as external link spam. That website is a fan blog only and is in no way an "official" anything, in regard to Rihanna. Previous editors have been blocked for continuing to make attempts to pass that website off as "official," so I strongly advise you not to add it again. Regards, --InDeBiz1 (talk) 18:34, 6 June 2008 (UTC)