User talk:MillerCenter

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, MillerCenter, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. - Mike Rosoft 16:27, 15 January 2007 (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: "I am an employee of the Miller Center adding links to our official website to the pages of U.S. presidents"

Decline reason: "Wikipedia is not a place to promote your companies website. This is an encyclopedia. The block will end in minutes, please do not advertise here again. -- HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)"

Please make any further unblock requests by using the {{unblock}} template. However, abuse of the template may result in your talk page being protected.

If you really think your link is relevant, then you can go to the articles talk page and suggest it to the other editors, but please do nor directly add it to many articles as you did. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

For failure to respond to my notification or to the 5-minute block and then logging out and continuing to add the links as 137.54.140.194 (talk • contribs • info • WHOIS), I am blocking you for 24 hours. This is your final warning; any more spamming will result in you being blocked indefinitely. - Mike Rosoft 17:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

If you are very persistent we can add your url to our blacklist. This blacklist is used by all the Wikimedia foundation websites and is publicly available to other websites. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 17:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response

Thank you for your clarification. If your links truly are topical and helpful to the subjects, then I would suggest going to the talk page of each page you think needs a link. Tell them what the link is about and why you think it is topical. Other editors of that page should respond and a consensus can form.
Normally adding a link would not really require this much discussion, however if you are bringing the links to many locations, this discussion will remove the appearance of using Wikipedia as a promotional vehicle. We have terrible problems with people adding links to our encyclopedia, and when we see someone adding the same website to many articles it sets off alarm bells.
I hope I have not discouraged you from editing Wikipedia. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 05:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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