User talk:Marquee Mag

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JohnCD (talk) 11:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] AfD nomination of Marquee magazine

An article that you have been involved in editing, Marquee magazine, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marquee magazine. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 11:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy as it is apparent that this account is being used only to spam external links. 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. Blueboy96 13:20, 2 March 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: "Gosh, I really hope I'm properly appealing this deletion/block. I would love to discuss the deletion/block and my ability to edit other. It is stated here that the account is being "used only to spam." That has never been, never will be, and never could possibly be The Marquee. The Marquee is a legitimate magazine located in Colorado that runs stories each month on local and nationally touring bands. Our biggest desire with Wikipedia is to be able to post to external links, at the bottom of band pages. I recently found, while searching the web that some bands had added external links to the stories we've written on them and so, we thought it'd be cool if we added some more. In doing that, I found that other publications have their information on pages and though we're not as large as Rolling Stone and the like, we think we have a place as well. Please do let me know what I can possibly do to have my block lifted and whether or not our page can be re-created....for the record that was an initial post and I was hoping to add more to the page today, when I found out we were blocked. I respectfully ask you reach back out to me on this. We don't want to be part of the spam problem. We're for real and woudl love to be included in the Wikipedia community. Thank you very much, Marquee editor - Brian F. Johnson"

Decline reason: "You may not use Wikipedia to promote your magazine, including through links; see WP:SOAP, WP:COI. Please only post another unblock request if you can indicate how you intend to otherwise productively contribute to this project. — Sandstein (talk) 23:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)"

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Request reason: "How do other publications post external links to stories/pages then? "

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{{unblock|I guess, I understand if you think the having a Marquee Magazine page is a COI or being used as promotion. I don't think it is personally, but can see how you could/would see that. (I still then don't see how Rolling Stone and other publications can qualify, but that's a different subject. It says in WP: SOAP that external links can add relevance, but too many can take away from that. I'd simply like to be able to add those links as I think it can help. Our articles, again written from a non-biased perspective and the articles themselves are not selling or promoting anything but the bands themselves. Please let me know and thank you for your time. }