Al Simmons
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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Battle of Leyte Gulf, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:
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editI will give you one warning. If you want to add a link that does not comply with our policy on External links again, discuss it on the talk page of the article. If you continue to add these links in without discussion and edit war to do so, you will be blocked. -MBK004 05:08, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
August 2009
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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Japanese battleship Yamato. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.--Eaglestorm (talk) 05:09, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- The problem is that you were edit warring to keep the links there without discussing them first. That is problem number one. While the links might be acceptable for the articles about the ships, they are not on the articles on the battles. Another thing, since you claim the photos are in the public domain, why don't you upload them to Wikimedia Commons (Our photo and media archive) where the images can be used in articles on every single language version of wikipedia. (The instructions to do so are relatively easy to follow) The main issue is that since you maintain the website, you cannot under our policy add the link to the article, but you can suggest it on the talk page of the article you think the link would be useful on. -MBK004 05:33, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Your recent edits
edit Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button 
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 05:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary for your edits. Thank you. 2help (message me) 05:55, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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—Ed (Talk • Contribs) 21:42, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- I have replied again; just click the link above. Thank you and cheers! —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 01:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
- Replied again. :) —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 02:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)